Alternative Cosmology Group Newsletter - September 2006

Posted September 19, 2006

A rather slow two months, it seems to me. If I have missed something, please let me know and I'll put it in next month.  -Eric Lerner, Editor (elerner@igc.org)

This interesting paper from February was overlooked and gives and alternative view to the QSOs as black holes theory.

Observations Supporting the Existence of an Intrinsic Magnetic Moment Inside the Central Compact Object Within the Quasar Q0957+561
Authors: Rudolph E. Schild, Darryl J. Leiter, Stanley L. Robertson
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0505518

Here are the two papers claiming to “prove” the existence of dark matter and the first reply to them.

A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter
Authors: Douglas Clowe (1), Marusa Bradac (2), Anthony H. Gonzalez (3), Maxim Markevitch (4), Scott W. Randall (4), Christine Jones (4), Dennis Zaritsky (1) ((1)
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0608407

Strong and weak lensing united III: Measuring the mass distribution of the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56
Authors: Marusa Bradac (1,2), Douglas Clowe (3), Anthony H. Gonzalez (4), Phil Marshall (1), William Forman (5), Christine Jones (5), Maxim Markevitch (5), Scott Randall (5), Tim Schrabback (2), Dennis Zaritsky (3)
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0608408

Gravitational Lensing in Modified Gravity and the Lensing of Merging Clusters without Dark Matter
Author: J. W. Moffat
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0608675