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jmandell
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Greetings to all,
A little information yo provide context to my question. I'm 16, and a junior in high school and I'm attending an astronomy camp on kitts peak doing research projects with the large telescopes.
While researching possible projects on that particularly interested me was determining the amount of dark matter in galaxy clusters through gravitational lensing.
My plan was to image a cluster and the determine the mass by the amount lensing of background galaxies. That would find the total mass of the cluster, dark matter and all.
Then the mass of the luminous matter would be derived and subtracted from the mass of the cluster on the whole., thus leaving the amount of dark matter.
Based on my research I believe this is right, but then again I might be totally off the mark. Does this sound right to you guys?
If so, I'm having a little trouble finding all the calculations - any suggestion?
Thanks,
Justin
A little information yo provide context to my question. I'm 16, and a junior in high school and I'm attending an astronomy camp on kitts peak doing research projects with the large telescopes.
While researching possible projects on that particularly interested me was determining the amount of dark matter in galaxy clusters through gravitational lensing.
My plan was to image a cluster and the determine the mass by the amount lensing of background galaxies. That would find the total mass of the cluster, dark matter and all.
Then the mass of the luminous matter would be derived and subtracted from the mass of the cluster on the whole., thus leaving the amount of dark matter.
Based on my research I believe this is right, but then again I might be totally off the mark. Does this sound right to you guys?
If so, I'm having a little trouble finding all the calculations - any suggestion?
Thanks,
Justin