Astronomy 61:
Current Problems in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Week 2: Searching for dark matter, by M. Roncadelli. Prepared for the 10th International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, Venice, Italy, 11-14 Mar 2003. Published in Venice 2003, Neutrino telescopes, Vol. 2 pp. 375-401. It is available via astro-ph.

Week 3: A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter by Clowe et al. (2006), ApJ Letters 648, L109. There are additional images in the Chandra press release and some interesting discussion of the paper on Cosmic Variance.

Week 4: Dark Matter in the Local Group by M. I. Wilkinson, from Proceedings of the Gaia Symposium The Three-Dimensional Universe with Gaia (ESA SP-576, 2005).

Week 5: Masses, Tidal Radii, and Escape Speeds in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies under MOND and Dark Halos Compared by Sánchez-Salcedo and Hernandez, ApJ 667, 878 (2007).

Week 6: Are there MACHOs in the Milky Way halo? by Green and Jedamzik, A&A 395, 31 (2002).

Week 7: Photometric Confirmation of MACHO Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing Events, by Bennett, Becker, & Tomaney, ApJ 631, 301 (2005).

Week 8: Dark Matter Burners, by Moskalenko & Wai, ApJ 659, L29 (2007).

Week 9: High-Resolution Measurements of the Halos of Four Dark Matter-Dominated Galaxies: Deviations from a Universal Density Profile, by Simon et al., ApJ 621, 75 (2005).

Week 10: Study of the Pioneer Anomaly: A Problem Set, by Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Martin Nieto, and John D. Anderson, Am. J. Phys. 73, 1033-1044 (2005).

Week 11: Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites?, by Anatoly Klypin, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Octavio Valenzuela, & Francisco Prada, ApJ 522, 82 (1999).

Week 12: How Lumpy Is the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo?, by Kathryn V. Johnston, David N. Spergel, & Christian Haydn, ApJ 570, 656 (2002).

Week 13: Dark Matter and Particle Physics, by Michael E. Peskin, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Volume 76, Issue 11, 111017 (2007).

Week 14: Possible evidence for dark matter annihilations from the excess microwave emission around the center of the Galaxy seen by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, by D. Hooper, D. P. Finkbeiner, & G. Dobler, Phys. Rev. D vol. 76, Issue 8, id. 083012 (2007).