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The epoch of reionization (EoR) sets a fundamental benchmark in cosmic structure formation, corresponding to the formation of the first luminous objects that act to ionize the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Recent observations at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Carilli , S. Furlanetto , F. Briggs , M. Jarvis , S. Rawlings , H. Falcke

Axion dark matter (DM) produces echo images of bright radio sources via stimulated decay. These images appear as a faint radio line centered at half the axion mass, with the line width set by the DM velocity dispersion. Due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Yitian Sun , Katelin Schutz , Harper Sewalls , Calvin Leung , Kiyoshi Wesley Masui

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will make ground breaking discoveries in pulsar science. In this chapter we outline the SKA surveys for new pulsars, as well as how we will perform the necessary follow-up timing observations. The SKA's wide…

Most of the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is contributed by its halo, presumably in the form of non-interacting cold dark matter. The axion is a compelling cold dark matter candidate. We report results from a search which probes the local…

Dwarf galaxies are widely believed to be among the best targets for indirect dark matter searches using high-energy gamma rays; and indeed gamma-ray emission from these objects has long been a subject of detailed study for ground-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-27 A. Viana , M. C. Medina , J. Peñarrubia , P. Brun , J. F. Glicenstein , K. Kosack , E. Moulin , M. Naumann-Godo , B. Peyaud

We propose a method for remotely detecting backward reflection via induced decay of cold dark matter such as axion in the background of a propagating coherent photon field. This method can be particularly useful for probing concentrated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-21 Kensuke Homma

The Square-Kilometre-Array (SKA) will be a radio telescope with a collecting area that will exceed that of existing telescopes by a factor of a hundred or so. This contribution summarises one of the key-science projects selected for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kramer

The future new-generation radio telescope SKA (Square Kilometre Array) and its precursors will provide a rapidly growing number of polarized radio sources. Hundred and thousands polarized background sources can be measured towards nearby…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-03 T. G. Arshakian , R. Stepanov , R. Beck , P. Frick , M. Krause

In this work, we investigate a decaying dark matter scenario and its associated indirect detection signatures. The model consists of a scalar singlet with a lifetime exceeding the age of the Universe. Stability is ensured by a $Z_2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 A. Carrillo-Monteverde , L. López-Lozano , F. San Juan-Villegas

Electromagnetic fields surrounding pulsars may source coherent ultralight axion signals at the known rotational frequencies of the neutron stars, which can be detected by laboratory experiments (e.g., pulsarscopes). As a promising case…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Mariia Khelashvili , Mariangela Lisanti , Anirudh Prabhu , Benjamin R. Safdi

We derive the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) sensitivity to dark matter (DM) annihilation in several primary channels, over a broad range of DM masses. These sensitivities are estimated when CTA is pointed towards a large sample of Milky…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-15 Valentin Lefranc , Paolo Panci , Gary A. Mamon

We investigate the degeneracy between the effects of ultra-light axion dark matter and baryonic feedback in suppressing the matter power spectrum. We forecast that galaxy shear data from the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Calvin Preston , Keir K. Rogers , Alexandra Amon , George Efstathiou

Terrestrial searches for the conversion of dark matter axions or axion-like particles into photons inside magnetic fields are sensitive to the phase space structure of the local Milky Way halo. We simulate signals in a hypothetical future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Anne M. Green

The all-sky survey of Faraday rotation, a Key Science Project of the planned Square Kilometre Array, will accumulate tens of millions of rotation measure measurements toward background radio sources and will provide a unique database for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rainer Beck

We know that magnetic fields are pervasive across all scales in the Universe and over all of cosmic time and yet our understanding of many of the properties of magnetic fields is still limited. We do not yet know when, where or how the…

The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are some of the most dark-matter-dominated objects known. Due to their proximity, high dark matter content, and lack of astrophysical backgrounds, dwarf spheroidal galaxies are widely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Wood , Brandon Anderson , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Jan Conrad

We argue that the Square Kilometre Array has the potential to make both redshift (HI) surveys and radio continuum surveys that will revolutionize cosmological studies, provided that it has sufficient instantaneous field-of-view that these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Blake , Filipe Abdalla , Sarah Bridle , Steve Rawlings

Magnetic field dependent transient solar observations are suggestive for axion-photon oscillations with light axion(-like) particle involvement. Novel dark-moon measurements with the SMART X-ray detectors can be conclusive for radiatively…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned radio interferometer of unprecedented scale that will revolutionize low-frequency radio astronomy when completed. In particular, one of its core science drivers is the systematic mapping of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-11 Nichole Barry , Gianni Bernardi , Bradley Greig , Nicholas Kern , Florent Mertens

Cosmic reionization is known to be a major phase transition of the gas in the Universe. Since astronomical objects formed in the early Universe, such as the first stars, galaxies and black holes, are expected to have caused cosmic…