English
Related papers

Related papers: Probing Small-Scale Power Spectra with Pulsar Timi…

200 papers

The study of ultralight dark matter helps to constrain the lower bound of the mass in minimally coupled dark matter models. The granular structure of ultralight dark matter density fields produces metric perturbations which have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Andrew Eberhardt , Qiuyue Liang , Elisa G. M. Ferreira

Due to poor observational constraints on the low-mass end of the subhalo mass function, the detection of dark matter (DM) subhalos on sub-galactic scales would provide valuable information about the nature of DM. Stellar wakes, induced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-22 Sven Põder , Joosep Pata , María Benito , Isaac Alonso Asensio , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

In the cold dark matter (CDM) picture of structure formation, galaxy mass distributions are predicted to have a considerable amount of structure on small scales. Strong gravitational lensing has proven to be a useful tool for studying this…

Supermassive black hole binary mergers serve as prominent sources of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). If dark matter-induced friction is present in the vicinity of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Pratick Sarkar

Recent advances in observational astronomy allow to study various groups of Dark Matter (DM) dominated objects from the dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies to clusters of galaxies that span the mass range from $10^{6} M_{\odot}$ to $10^{15}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-28 M. Demiański , A. G. Doroshkevich

Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) models invoke a particle-antiparticle asymmetry, similar to the one observed in the Baryon sector, to account for the Dark Matter (DM) abundance. Both asymmetries are usually generated by the same mechanism and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Mattias Blennow , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Olga Mena , Javier Redondo , Paolo Serra

Recently, binary pulsar timing has been proposed as a viable probe of dark matter subhalos with masses of $\sim 10^7\,M_{\odot}$ in the solar neighborhood. We present a comprehensive analytical framework that incorporates the subhalo mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Zheng-Long Wang , Zi-Qing Xia , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

We present a scenario that ameliorates the tuning problems present in models of primordial black hole dark matter from inflation. Our setup employs the advantages of gravitational collapse in a long epoch of early matter domination with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Guillermo Ballesteros , Julián Rey , Fabrizio Rompineve

The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) theory predicts a wealth of substructure within dark halos. These predictions match observations of galaxy clusters like the nearby Virgo cluster. However, CDM has a "small scale crisis" since galaxies dominate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Elena D'Onghia , George Lake

Theoretical models predict that intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) exist in globular clusters (GCs), but observational evidence remains elusive. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are abundant in GCs and have served as precise probes for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Xian Chen , Verónica Vázquez-Aceves , Siyuan Chen , Kejia Lee , Yanjun Guo , Kuo Liu

Axionic dark matter can form miniclusters and minicluster halos from inhomogenuities in the early Universe. If MCHs are sufficiently massive, their existence can be revealed by small-scale gravitational tidal perturbation to halo-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-05 Zihang Wang , Yu Gao

We present a novel method to constrain the mass of ultra-light bosons as the dark matter using stellar streams formed by disrupting Globular Clusters in the Milky Way. The turbulent density field of Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) haloes results in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-03 Nicola C. Amorisco , A. Loeb

Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models offer an attractive alternative to the current Cold Dark Matter (CDM) cosmological model. We present a novel method to differentiate between WDM and CDM cosmologies, namely using weak lensing; this provides a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Hareth S. Mahdi , Pascal J. Elahi , Geraint F. Lewis , Chris Power

In the last decade, the use of an ensemble of radio pulsars to constrain the characteristic strain caused by a stochastic gravitational wave background has advanced the cause of detection of very low frequency gravitational waves…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-25 Bhal Chandra Joshi

Dark photons (DPs) produced in the early Universe are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates. We show that the recently proposed tunable plasma haloscopes are particularly advantageous for DP searches. While in-medium effects suppress…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Graciela B. Gelmini , Alexander J. Millar , Volodymyr Takhistov , Edoardo Vitagliano

We perform a study of the nonlinear clustering of matter in the late-forming dark matter (LFDM) scenario in which dark matter results from the transition of a nonminimally coupled scalar field from radiation to collisionless matter. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Shankar Agarwal , Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Subinoy Das , Yann Rasera

The properties of axion miniclusters and of the voids between them can have very strong implications for the discovery of axions and the dark matter of the Universe. These properties can be strongly affected by axion dynamics in the early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-20 Giovanni Pierobon , Javier Redondo , Ken'ichi Saikawa , Alejandro Vaquero , Guy D. Moore

If the dark matter particle is a neutralino then the first structures to form are cuspy cold dark matter (CDM) haloes collapsing after redshifts z ~ 100 in the mass range 10^{-6} - 10^{-3} Msun. We carry out a detailed study of the survival…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tobias Goerdt , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Ben Moore , Jürg Diemand , Joachim Stadel

Ultracompact minihalos would be formed if there are larger density perturbations ($0.0003 < \delta\rho/\rho < 0.3$) in the earlier epoch. The density profile of them is steeper than the standard dark matter halos. If the dark matter can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yupeng Yang , Guilin Yang , Hongshi Zong

In this study, we explore vector dark matter (DM) production in the early Universe focusing on a scenario with a low reheating temperature. One can achieve low reheat temperature in many ways, for example, by considering a longer lifetime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-24 Sarif Khan , Jongkuk Kim , Hyun Min Lee