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The Neutrino Content of Elliptical Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

B. M. Lewis
B. M. Lewis*
Affiliation:
Carter Observatory, Wellington
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Current results from the experiment by Reines et al (1980) on the oscillation of neutrinos from one flavour to another, if confirmed, require a non-zero rest-mass for the neutrino. Corroborative evidence can be adduced from the astrophysical consequences. In particular, the long-standing ‘missing light’ paradox in rich clusters of galaxies is solved (c.f. Cowsik and McClelland 1973), and more recent difficulties in reconciling the chronology of the Universe with both the primordial abundance of He4 and the cosmological mass density are eased (c.f. Symbalisty et al 1980). Finally Lewis (1981) shows that the concept also solves the problem of obtaining dynamically relaxed clusters of galaxies with feasable formation times. As a result, elliptical galaxies are necessarily formed from the material of a proto-cluster amid a high density of low-velocity neutrinos. This paper makes a preliminary estimate of the maximum neutrino content of elliptical galaxies.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , 1981 , pp. 182 - 184
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1981

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