UNF’s Chris Kelso and collaborators at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois are beginning a study on dark matter and dwarf galaxies funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The team will simulate the data that will be collected from the DOE-funded Legacy Survey of Space and Time telescope under construction in Chile.

LSST is expected to discover many dwarf galaxies that are much smaller than our own but are orbiting the Milky Way and thus are excellent targets to search for dark matter. They will assess if the new dwarf galaxies likely to be discovered by LSST will be able to confirm if dark matter is responsible for the surplus of gamma rays emanating from the center of the Milky Way.

• Christopher Kelso