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X-Ray Constraints on Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters and Elliptical Galaxies: A View from Chandra and XMM

David A. Buote

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0310579

Abstract

I review constraints on the radial density profiles and ellipticities of the dark matter obtained from recent X-ray observations with Chandra and XMM of elliptical galaxies and galaxy clusters and discuss their implications, especially for the self-interacting dark matter model.

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