Where Can I Find a Paper on Dark Matter Density Percentages in the Universe?

[krishna mohan]

Hi...

Wikipedia says that only five percent of the universe is matter that we know... Can anyone tell me a paper where the percentages of visible matter, dark matter and dark energy in the universe are given?

 

[bapowell]

Hi...

Wikipedia says that only five percent of the universe is matter that we know... Can anyone tell me a paper where the percentages of visible matter, dark matter and dark energy in the universe are given?

Any of the papers from the WMAP science team will discuss this. However, an introductory cosmology textbook is probably a better place to go.

 

[mathman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

Above is a good description, including the information you requested.

 

[Ich]

The numbers are easier to find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model#Parameters". "Baryonic" means normal matter.

 

[krishna mohan]

Thanks...got it!