Galactic Dark Matter

• Luminous matter (stars)

Wlumh=0.002–0.006

• Non-luminous matter

Wgal>0.02–0.05

• Only lower bound because we don’t quite know how far the galaxy halos extend

• Could in principle be baryons

• Jupiters? Brown dwarfs?

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