Dark matter local density determination: recent observations and future prospects

PF de Salas, A Widmark - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This report summarises progress made in estimating the local density of dark matter (ρ
DM,⊙), a quantity that is especially important for dark matter direct detection experiments …

Rotation curve of the Milky Way and the dark matter density

Y Sofue - Galaxies, 2020 - mdpi.com
We review the current status of the study of rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way, and present
a unified RC from the Galactic Center to the galacto-centric distance of about 100 kpc. The …

Observational evidence for cosmological coupling of black holes and its implications for an astrophysical source of dark energy

D Farrah, KS Croker, M Zevin, G Tarlé… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations have found black holes spanning 10 orders of magnitude in mass across most
of cosmic history. The Kerr black hole solution is, however, provisional as its behavior at …

Constraints on dark matter properties from observations of Milky Way satellite galaxies

EO Nadler, A Drlica-Wagner, K Bechtol, S Mau… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We perform a comprehensive study of Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies to constrain the
fundamental properties of dark matter (DM). This analysis fully incorporates inhomogeneities …

No massive black holes in the Milky Way halo

P Mróz, A Udalski, MK Szymański, I Soszyński… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The gravitational wave detectors have shown a population of massive black holes that do
not resemble those observed in the Milky Way,–and whose origin is debated,–. According to …

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
This paper presents the results of a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave
transients in data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo …

Tango for three: Sagittarius, LMC, and the Milky Way

E Vasiliev, V Belokurov, D Erkal - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We assemble a catalogue of candidate Sagittarius stream members with 5D and 6D phase-
space information, using astrometric data from Gaia DR2, distances estimated from RR …

Novel search for high-frequency gravitational waves with low-mass axion haloscopes

V Domcke, C Garcia-Cely, NL Rodd - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Gravitational waves (GWs) generate oscillating electromagnetic effects in the vicinity of
external electric and magnetic fields. We discuss this phenomenon with a particular focus on …

Detection of the Keplerian decline in the Milky Way rotation curve

Y Jiao, F Hammer, H Wang, J Wang, P Amram… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Our position inside the Galactic disc has previously prevented us from establishing an
accurate rotation curve (RC). The advent of Gaia and its third data release (Gaia DR3) made …

Reconstructing the last major merger of the Milky Way with the H3 survey

RP Naidu, C Conroy, A Bonaca, D Zaritsky… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Several lines of evidence suggest that the Milky Way underwent a major merger at z∼ 2 with
the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) galaxy. Here we use H3 Survey data to argue that GSE …