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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: stacyjones on 30/06/2016 01:52:44

Title: Is a sea of massive gravitons what ripples when galaxy clusters collide?
Post by: stacyjones on 30/06/2016 01:52:44

Accepted at APS Physical Review D:

Massive gravitons as dark matter and gravitational waves
(https://journals.aps.org/prd/accepted/8b07dQ8dFbd1051b06704364802ee6ba42eea6f5e)

Precursor:

Bigravitons as dark matter and gravitational waves
(https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06704)

Quote

the massive graviton is a viable candidate of dark matter ... We first derive the energy-momentum tensor of the massive graviton and show that it indeed behaves as that of dark matter fluid.