Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar

Modeling the Flyby Anomalies with Dark Matter Scattering

We continue our exploration of whether the flyby anomalies can be explained by scattering of spacecraft nucleons from dark matter gravitationally bound to the earth. We formulate and analyze a simple model in which inelastic and elastic scatterers populate shells generated by the precession of circular orbits with normals tilted with respect to the earth's axis. Good fits to the data published by Anderson et al. are obtained.

Date & Time

October 01, 2009 | 11:30am

Location

Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library

Speakers

Stephen Adler

Affiliation

Institute for Advanced Study

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