Comments on: Mergers Paper submitted

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:54:26 +0000

Could Dark Energy be an area of intergalatic space propogating the effect because of the lack of matter’s impact on space itself?

To put it differently, we know that frame dagging is caused by matter. But could the distance away from matters frame dragging effects make space itself act differently? If so then this could explain why we can’t see dark matter, why we can’t actually see the energy, but we would see it’s effects and we do.

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:01:43 +0000

Usually it’s made available after a week or two, at which point they’ll update with a link

By: LankyYankee

LankyYankee — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:15:20 +0000

Great news! Is the text of the paper posted where Zooites could read it?

By: Graham Dungworth

Graham Dungworth — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:34:59 +0000

Congratulations Dan et al.

Those somewhat denser environments and the 1.5/1 ratio for spirals to ellipticals in mergers could be due to preferential stripping of Dark Matter, leading to depletion in gas poor ellipticals; the more massive the system the more probable the merger. Might help to reveal better and crucial abundance and distribution data for Dark Matter.

All in all an accomplished feat for you all.

By: Thomas J

Thomas J — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:25:28 +0000

Well done Dan and thre GZ team.

By: Joseph K. H. Cheng

Joseph K. H. Cheng — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:17:33 +0000

Congratulations, Dan ! Glad that our Galaxy Zoo data have made more contribution science. I hope this trend will carry on in the future.

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:42:45 +0000

That’s great – I’ll use that as a reference while I’m ploughing through the real thing, Dan! Thanks for writing it up for us.

By: Waveney

Waveney — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:16:41 +0000

Well done.

Note: There is a reference made here to the Merger Hunting, but the main use of your results will be in the second Mergers paper.