SILICON VALLEY, Calif., April 27, 2010 (AScribe Newswire) — The international conference Ultraviolet Universe 2010 (2nd NUVA Symposium; http://www.ucm.es/info/nuva/) will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 31 – June 4, 2010. The conference is organized by the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (http://www.inasan.ru/) and the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (http://www.gao.spb.ru/) together with the NUVA Community (Network for the Ultraviolet Astronomy; http://www.ucm.es/info/nuva/).
The current status of UV-based astrophysical research will be reviewed, as well as the status of ongoing projects such as the Galactic Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and the Space Telescope (HST), novel projects such as Fresnel Interferometers, and the status of small missions such as SPEAR/FIMS or TAUVEX.
Special attention during the conference will be paid to the World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV), a 170 cm UV space telescope that is planned to be launched in 2013 at a cost of $400 million. One of the objectives of the meeting is to join the main streams on current astrophysical research requiring access to UV facilities to contribute to the definition of the core program for the WSO-UV (http://www.wso-uv.org/). For this reason the meeting is wide open to oral contributions in the main fields of astrophysical research.
Financially supporting this WSO-UV observatory project are Russia, Germany, Italy, Spain and China.
The planned $400 million (WSO-UV) space observatory will provide unique opportunities for the study of the “cosmic web,” the search for dark baryonic matter (including Jerome Drexler’s UV emitting relativistic-baryon dark matter), and the study of thermal and chemical evolution of the Universe as well as for the study of “standard candles” used in type 1a supernovae.
Professor Boris Shustov, the Director of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the project manager of the WSO-UV space observatory, is quoted as saying: “One should particularly emphasize the observatory’s role in detecting the so-called dark matter of the Universe and unlocking its secrets because such dark matter can only be seen by large ultraviolet [space] telescopes.”
Jerome Drexler, the Bell Labs-trained American scientist who discovered UV/EUV emitting relativistic-baryon dark matter in 2002, is submitting the following report, regarding UV/EUV photon emission from dark matter, to the Scientific Organizing Committee of the international conference “Ultraviolet Universe – 2010.”
Dark Matter within Our Local Group Galaxy Cluster Probably Emits Ultraviolet, Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV), and Infrared Photons
Ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photons are difficult to detect from space using an Earth-based telescope because Earth’s atmosphere scatters/absorbs a very large percentage of such light passing through it. That is, even if the so-called dark matter of the universe is luminous in the EUV or UV, it still could appear dark through a telescope on Earth’s surface.
Therefore, although astronomers, astrophysicists, and cosmologists have assumed for the past 20 years that the dark matter of the universe is cold, passive, and absolutely dark it actually may be hot, active, and emit EUV or UV light or even soft X-rays.
The possibility of detection of extreme ultraviolet or ultraviolet photons from dark matter progressed in 2006 when Russia announced it will launch an ultraviolet astronomical observatory in 2010 (now 2013) having a 170 cm main mirror.
In the announcement, the project manager, Professor Boris Shustov, is quoted as saying: “One should particularly emphasize the observatory’s role in detecting the so-called dark matter of the Universe and unlocking its secrets because such dark matter can only be seen by large ultraviolet [space] telescopes.”
This Russian news came 30 months after Jerome Drexler’s December 2003 astrophysics book had disclosed that Drexler’s dark matter model comprises relativistic protons that emit synchrotron radiation and that the dark matter of the Local Group galaxy cluster, which includes the Milky Way, is linked to EUV photons. These facts, as clues, eventually led to Drexler’s discovery of the Dual-Dark-Matter phenomenon.
The 2006 announcement by Professor Shustov, Director of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was very encouraging to Drexler in that Shustov believed dark matter was luminous in the ultraviolet at a level that could be detected and measured by a 170 cm satellite-borne ultraviolet telescope. Drexler valued this information.
After Drexler publicized the Russian announcement, he received emails from a U.S. professor that linked Drexler’s relativistic-proton dark matter model, as a source of EUV synchrotron emission, to the long-observed EUV radiation from galaxy clusters.
The professor’s 2006 emails provided the following significant information: “An extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray excess has been detected from clusters of galaxies more than ten years ago by EUVE and ROSAT. Today the XMM-Newton satellite continues the research in this exciting field.” And, “In this case the EUV and soft X-ray excess from clusters, which is by now a well established phenomenon, could be used to support your [dark matter] model.” EUV and soft X-ray photon emission from galaxy clusters has been the subject of about 20 scientific papers during the past ten years. None had been linked to dark matter.
Drexler (in April 2007) posits that the relativistic-proton dark matter is probably the leading candidate for such a source of EUV and soft X-ray photon emission from galaxy clusters since its synchrotron emission provides a very plausible explanation for the observed phenomena.
Dark matter’s relativistic protons (orbiting groups of galaxies) in a cluster of galaxies are a much more likely source of EUV or soft X-ray synchrotron emission than dark matter’s relativistic protons in the halo of a spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way. There are three reasons for this:
A relativistic proton’s synchrotron emission power is proportional to the square of its energy; the wavelength of the peak emission power is inversely proportional to the square of the protons’ energy; and the energies of the dark matter protons orbiting several galaxies in the Local Group galaxy cluster are probably about 30 times greater than the proton energies in the Milky Way’s halo.
Thus, dark matter protons orbiting several galaxies in the Local Group galaxy cluster should radiate synchrotron emission power about 900 times higher, at a wavelength 900 times smaller, than from protons in the Milky Way’s dark matter halo.
Calculations indicate that the synchrotron emission power from the dark matter relativistic protons orbiting the Milky Way should have a broad peak in the infrared that includes the wavelength of 5 microns.
Synchrotron emission power from the much higher energy dark matter relativistic protons orbiting several galaxies in the Local Group galaxy cluster, including either the Milky Way or Andromeda, probably will have a broad peak of UV, EUV, and soft X-ray photons that includes the wavelength of 5.5 nanometers.
(The formulas used can be found in “High Energy Cosmic Rays,” Section 2.3.1, by Todor Stanev.)
(This report was originally written in April 2007. The following information has been updated to 2010.)
Drexler has documented his eight years of dark matter/dark energy research, its timeline, its interaction with mainstream cosmology, and the overwhelming evidence that relativistic-proton or relativistic-baryon dark matter represents the principal constituent of the dark matter of the universe in the following seven publications.
(1) Paperback book, October 30, 2009, “Our Universe via Drexler Dark Matter: Drexler Dark Matter Created and Explains Dark Energy, Top-Down Cosmology, Inflation, Accelerating Cosmos, Stars, Galaxies, Cosmic Web.”
(2) Educational Web site upgraded December 9, 2009 entitled, “Discovering Dark Matter Cosmology” at: http://www.jeromedrexler.org/
(3) Paperback book, March 1, 2008, “Discovering Postmodern Cosmology: Discoveries in Dark Matter, Cosmic Web, Big Bang, Inflation, Cosmic Rays, Dark Energy, Accelerating Cosmos.”
(4) Scientific paper, physics/0702132, Feb. 15 2007, “A Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter Would Be Evidence the Big Bang Probably Satisfied the Second Law of Thermodynamics.”
(5) Paperback book, May 22, 2006, “Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos: Discovering Solutions to Over a Dozen Cosmic Mysteries by Utilizing Dark Matter Relationism, Cosmology, and Astrophysics.”
(6) Scientific paper, astro-ph/0504512, April 22, 2005, “Identifying Dark Matter through the Constraints Imposed by Fourteen Astronomically Based ‘Cosmic Constituents.’”
(7) Paperback book, Dec. 15, 2003, “How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun: An Astrophysics Detective Story.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jerome Drexler is a former member of the technical staff and group supervisor at Bell Labs, former research professor in physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology, founder and former Chairman and chief scientist of LaserCard Corp. (Nasdaq: LCRD). He has been awarded 76 U.S. patents, honorary Doctor of Science degrees from NJIT and Upsala College, a degree of Honorary Fellow of the Technion, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University, a three-year Bell Labs graduate study fellowship, the 1990 “Inventor of the Year Award” for Silicon Valley and recognition as the original inventor in 1978 of the now widely-used digital optical disk “Laser Optical Storage System” and the LaserCard(R) nanotech data memory. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of New Jersey Institute of Technology and an Honorary Life Member of the Technion Board of Governors.