The Radcliffe wave is oscillating

R Konietzka, AA Goodman, C Zucker, A Burkert… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Our Sun lies within 300 parsecs of the 2.7-kiloparsecs-long sinusoidal chain of dense gas
clouds known as the Radcliffe Wave. The structure's wave-like shape was discovered using …

The Milky Way, coming into focus: Precision astrometry probes its evolution and its dark matter

S Gardner, SD McDermott, B Yanny - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing trove of precision astrometric observations from the Gaia space telescope and
other surveys is revealing the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way in ever more …

Symmetry of cosmological observables, a mirror world dark sector, and the Hubble constant

FY Cyr-Racine, F Ge, L Knox - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We find that a uniform scaling of the gravitational free-fall rates and photon-electron
scattering rate leaves most dimensionless cosmological observables nearly invariant. This …

Simulating atomic dark matter in milky way analogs

S Roy, X Shen, M Lisanti, D Curtin… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Dark sector theories naturally lead to multicomponent scenarios for dark matter where a
subcomponent can dissipate energy through self-interactions, allowing it to efficiently cool …

Using Gaia DR2 to constrain local dark matter density and thin dark disk

J Buch, SCJ Leung, JJ Fan - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We use stellar kinematics from the latest Gaia data release (DR2) to measure the local dark
matter (DM) density ρ DM in a heliocentric cylinder of radius R= 150 pc and half-height z …

Precision cosmological constraints on atomic dark matter

S Bansal, J Barron, D Curtin, Y Tsai - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Atomic dark matter is a simple but highly theoretically motivated possibility for an
interacting dark sector that could constitute some or all of dark matter. We perform a …

Snowmass2021 cosmic frontier white paper: dark matter physics from halo measurements

K Bechtol, S Birrer, FY Cyr-Racine, K Schutz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The non-linear process of cosmic structure formation produces gravitationally bound
overdensities of dark matter known as halos. The abundances, density profiles, ellipticities …

Weighing the Galactic disk using phase-space spirals-II. Most stringent constraints on a thin dark disk using Gaia EDR3

A Widmark, CFP Laporte, PF de Salas… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Using the method that was developed in the first paper of this series, we measured the
vertical gravitational potential of the Galactic disk from the time-varying structure of the …

Dark atoms and composite dark matter

J Cline - SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, 2022 - scipost.org
I selectively review the theoretical properties and observational limits pertaining to dark
atoms, as well as composite dark matter candidates bound by a confining gauge interaction …

Constraining a Thin Dark Matter Disk with

K Schutz, T Lin, BR Safdi, CL Wu - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
If a component of the dark matter has dissipative interactions, it could collapse to form a thin
dark disk in our Galaxy that is coplanar with the baryonic disk. It has been suggested that …