Additional Rotation Curve Related Links

Rotation curves and dark matter:

General Reviews:

Dr. Vera Rubin (Carnegie/DTM)

The Rotation of Spiral Galaxies
Science, 220, 1339 (24-June-1983)

Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies
Scientific American, 248, 96 (June 1983)

Important scientific papers include:

Some of the first systematic modeling of rotation curves was done in
Kent, S.M. 1986, Astronomical Journal, 91 1301
Kent, S.M. 1987, Astronomical Journal. 93 816

More recent work includes:

Persic, M. etal 1996, MNRAS, 281, 27
de Blok, W.J.G., & McGaugh 1997, MNRAS, 290, 533

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Reviews of dark matter in general:

Dr. Lawrence Krauss (CWRU)

Dark Matter in the Universe Scientific American, 255, 58 (December 1986)

Dr. Virginia Trimble (University of Maryland, UC Irvine):

Existence and Nature of Dark Matter in the Universe
Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 25, 425 (1987)

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Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND):

"The MOND pages" are maintained by Stacy McGaugh (University of Maryland).

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond

An interesting recent description of MOND tests can be found in:

McGaugh, S.S., and de Blok, W.J.G. 1998, Astrophysical Journal, 499, 66