Recommended conventions for reporting results from direct dark matter searches

D Baxter, IM Bloch, E Bodnia, X Chen, J Conrad… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The field of dark matter detection is a highly visible and highly competitive one. In this paper,
we propose recommendations for presenting dark matter direct detection results particularly …

The Milky Way's plane of satellites is consistent with ΛCDM

T Sawala, M Cautun, C Frenk, J Helly, J Jasche… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Milky Way is surrounded by 11 'classical'satellite galaxies in a remarkable
configuration: a thin plane that is possibly rotationally supported. Such a structure is thought …

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

S Jin, SC Trager, GB Dalton, JAL Aguerri… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility
for the William Herschel Telescope, saw first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2 …

Milky Way mass with K giants and BHB stars using LAMOST, SDSS/SEGUE, and Gaia: 3D spherical Jeans equation and tracer mass estimator

SA Bird, XX Xue, C Liu, C Flynn, J Shen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We measure the enclosed Milky Way mass profile to Galactocentric distances of∼ 70 and∼
50 kpc using the smooth, diffuse stellar halo samples of Bird et al. The samples are Large …

The quintuplet annihilation spectrum

M Baumgart, NL Rodd, TR Slatyer, V Vaidya - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We extend the Effective Field Theory of Heavy Dark Matter to arbitrary odd
representations of SU (2) and incorporate the effects of bound states. This formalism is then …

Hidden deep in the halo: selection of a reduced proper motion halo catalogue and mining retrograde streams in the velocity space

A Viswanathan, E Starkenburg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Milky Way halo is one of the few galactic haloes that provides a unique
insight into galaxy formation by resolved stellar populations. Here, we present a catalogue …

Substructure at high speed. II. The local escape velocity and Milky Way mass with Gaia eDR3

L Necib, T Lin - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Measuring the escape velocity of the Milky Way is critical in obtaining the mass of the Milky
Way, understanding the dark matter velocity distribution, and building the dark matter density …

The disturbed outer Milky Way disc

PJ McMillan, J Petersson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The outer parts of the Milky Way's disc are significantly out of equilibrium. Using only
distances and proper motions of stars from Gaia's Early Data Release 3, in the range| b|< …

Milky Way archaeology using RR Lyrae and type II Cepheids-II. High-velocity RR Lyrae stars and Milky Way mass

Z Prudil, AJ Koch-Hansen, B Lemasle… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We report the discovery of high-velocity candidates among RR Lyrae stars found in the Milky
Way halo. We identified nine RR Lyrae stars with Galactocentric velocities exceeding the …

Cosmology of axion dark matter

CAJ O'Hare - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17697, 2024 - arxiv.org
I present an introduction and topical review on axions as a dark matter candidate. Emphasis
is placed on issues surrounding the cosmology of axion dark matter that are relevant for …