Edwina wrote:Hi,
I am wondering if anyone has seen/created an add-on for
Celestia to show the 3d Dark matter map from the Cosmos
survey, which was released earlier this year?
(
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/ht ... 0701a.html)
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated!
These are the kind of great displays that I would want to
incorporate with
the right coordinates into a
"Cosmo-Celestia" mode...
As a reminder, see also this from the Millenium simulation
WEBsite:
http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/
Notably this most exciting independent proof for Dark
Matter from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (Harvard):
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Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/M.Markevitch et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.; Lensing Map: NASA/STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.
where 2 huge superclusters of galaxies are penetrating
each other. In the image, one can see the interacting
luminous matter (red), while the weakly interacting dark
matter(blue) passes through! So here, we effectively have
an amazing "Dark Matter Filter" at work that furnishes completely
independent DM-evidence from the galactic rotation curves.
The distribution of dark matter has been reconstructed by means of MicroLensing!
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Here is an amazing animation from the Chandra WEBsite
(MPEG, 1.2MB):
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1 ... nim_sm.mpg
Initially dark(blue) and luminous(red) matter are mixed in
each supercluster of galaxies.
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For a more detailed discussion, see my posts in
http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9962
Bye Fridger
