Long-exposure NuSTAR constraints on decaying dark matter in the Galactic halo

BM Roach, S Rossland, KCY Ng, K Perez, JF Beacom… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present two complementary NuSTAR x-ray searches for keV-scale dark matter decaying
to monoenergetic photons in the Milky Way halo. In the first, we utilize the known intensity …

[HTML][HTML] Snowmass2021 theory frontier white paper: Astrophysical and cosmological probes of dark matter

KK Boddy, M Lisanti, SD McDermott, NL Rodd… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
While astrophysical and cosmological probes provide a remarkably precise and consistent
picture of the quantity and general properties of dark matter, its fundamental nature remains …

Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Models from Strong Gravitational Lensing, Milky Way Satellites, and the Lyman- Forest

IA Zelko, T Treu, KN Abazajian, D Gilman, AJ Benson… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The nature of dark matter is one of the most important unsolved questions in science. Some
dark matter candidates do not have sufficient nongravitational interactions to be probed in …

From images to dark matter: End-to-end inference of substructure from hundreds of strong gravitational lenses

S Wagner-Carena, J Aalbers, S Birrer… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Constraining the distribution of small-scale structure in our universe allows us to probe
alternatives to the cold dark matter paradigm. Strong gravitational lensing offers a unique …

Constraining resonant dark matter self-interactions with strong gravitational lenses

D Gilman, YM Zhong, J Bovy - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We devise a method to constrain self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) from observations of
quadruply imaged quasars, and apply it to five self-interaction potentials with a long-range …

A comprehensive model for the formation and evolution of the faintest Milky Way dwarf satellites

N Ahvazi, A Benson, LV Sales… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we modify the semi-analytic model galacticus in order to accurately reproduce
the observed properties of dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way. We find that reproducing …

Constraining the primordial curvature perturbation using dark matter substructure

S Ando, N Hiroshima, K Ishiwata - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We investigate the primordial curvature perturbation by the observation of the dark matter
substructure. Assuming a bump in the spectrum of the curvature perturbation in the wave …

Post-inflationary axions: a minimal target for axion haloscopes

M Gorghetto, E Hardy - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract An axion-like-particle (ALP) in the post-inflationary scenario with domain wall
number N> 1 can be dark matter if the residual ℤ N symmetry has a small explicit breaking …

Tidal evolution of cored and cuspy dark matter halos

X Du, A Benson, ZC Zeng, T Treu, AHG Peter, C Mace… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The internal structure and abundance of dark matter halos and subhalos are powerful
probes of the nature of dark matter. In order to compare observations with dark matter …

JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey I: Description and first results

AM Nierenberg, RE Keeley, D Sluse, D Gilman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The flux ratios of gravitationally lensed quasars provide a powerful probe of the nature of
dark matter. Importantly, these ratios are sensitive to small-scale structure, irrespective of the …