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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.THE SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD

3.THE MILKY WAY HALO

4.DWARF SPHEROIDALS

4.1.Recent Observational Techniques and Results

4.2.Constraining the Dark Matter Distribution

4.3.Dispensing with Dark Matter

5.DWARF IRREGULARS

5.1.Observations of Individual Galaxies

5.2.Trends in Dark Matter Properties

6.SPIRAL GALAXIES

6.1.Mass Models of Spiral Galaxies

6.2.The End of a Conspiracy?

6.3.The Dark Matter Fraction in Spirals

6.4.The Edge of the Halo

6.5.Dust in Spirals

7.ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES

7.1.X-Rays and Globular Clusters

7.2.Stellar Velocity Dispersions

7.3.Gas Disks

8.GALAXIES IN PAIRS, GROUPS AND CLUSTERS

8.1.Binary Galaxies

8.2.Galaxies in Groups

8.3.Galaxies in Clusters

9.THE SHAPE OF DARK HALOS

9.1.Polar Ring Galaxies

9.2.Warped and Flaring Disks

9.3.N-Body Experiments

10.DARK MATTER SEARCHES AND CONSTRAINTS

10.1.Non-Baryonic Dark Matter

10.2.Baryonic Dark Matter

10.3.Gravitational Lensing

11.THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS

11.1.Non-Newtonian Gravity

11.2.Galaxy Formation and Baryonic Halos

11.3.The Hubble Sequence

12.CONCLUSIONS

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