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The above image is a computer simulation of the distribution of mass in a Dark Matter dominated Universe. ... Structure (\eg density enhancements) clearly forms at the intersection of these filaments. ... What is Dark Matter? ... Testing for the presence of dark matter in the solar neighborhood now becomes an accounting problem The possible sources of this mass in the solar neighborhood are 1) luminous stars, 2) interstellar gas, 3) stellar remnants (mostly white dwarfs) and 4) dark matter: . ...

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... In the colophon, written for the book prior to starting work on the electronic proceedings, I mentioned that the reason for producing the book from a single gigantic LaTeX file was the hope that it would simplify the production of the electronic version. ... I renamed contributions to the first author's last name and first initial (or two initials in the case of hyphenated first names) followed by .html , the convention established for the previous electronic proceedings. ...

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... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Besides computer simulations, what evidence do astronomers have to support the popular hypothesis that elliptical galaxies form from merging spirals? ... When a small galaxy merges with a much more massive one, astronomers call the process a minor merger and the more massive galaxy is little affected. ...

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Computer experiments in Astrophysics . Text in KOI8 (new variant) . ... Figure 2 PostScript . Figure 3 GIF . ... Variants of Figure 5 . ... Variant 2 (GIF): EVOLUTION OF LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE IN A CDM UNIVERSE WITH COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT z=0 . ... Variant 4 (GIF): SIMULATIONS OF GALAXY FORMATION z=0.9 . ... GRAPE-5: A Special-Purpose Computer for N-body Simulation . 7.0/Mflops Astrophysical N-Body Simulation with Treecode on GRAPE-5 . A TreePM code for Cosmological N-Body simulations . ...

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