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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Dark matter plays an important role in our current understanding of the universe. Low surface brightness spiral galaxies are particularly excellent laboratories for probing the dark matter distribution and placing constraints on theoretical models. I will discuss the observational techniques used to study these galaxies and their dark matter halos. I will also discuss how well current dark matter models describe the observations and suggest how they might need to be updated.
