Dark photon superradiance: Electrodynamics and multimessenger signals

N Siemonsen, C Mondino, D Egana-Ugrinovic… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the electrodynamics of a kinetically mixed dark photon cloud that forms through
superradiance around a spinning black hole, and design strategies to search for the …

Self-interacting scalar dark matter around binary black holes

JC Aurrekoetxea, J Marsden, K Clough, PG Ferreira - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Gravitational waves can provide crucial insights about the environments in which black
holes live. In this work, we use numerical relativity simulations to study the behavior of self …

Instability and backreaction of massive spin-2 fields around black holes

WE East, N Siemonsen - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
A massive spin-2 field can grow unstably around a black hole, giving rise to a potential
probe of the existence of such fields. In this work, we use time-domain evolutions to study …

Comparison of Low-Redshift Lyman- Forest Observations to Hydrodynamical Simulations with Dark Photon Dark Matter

JS Bolton, A Caputo, H Liu, M Viel - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
Recent work has suggested that an additional≲ 6.9 eV per baryon of heating in the
intergalactic medium is needed to reconcile hydrodynamical simulations with Lyman-α forest …

Methods and prospects for gravitational-wave searches targeting ultralight vector-boson clouds around known black holes

D Jones, L Sun, N Siemonsen, WE East, SM Scott… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Ultralight bosons are predicted in many extensions to the Standard Model and are popular
dark matter candidates. The black hole superradiance mechanism allows for these particles …

Numerical analysis of resonant axion-photon mixing

EU Ginés, D Noordhuis, C Weniger, SJ Witte - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Many present-day axion searches attempt to probe the mixing of axions and photons, which
occurs in the presence of an external magnetic field. While this process is well understood in …

Constraints on fifth forces and ultralight dark matter from OSIRIS-REx target asteroid Bennu

YD Tsai, D Farnocchia, M Micheli, S Vagnozzi… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
It is important to test the possible existence of fifth forces, as ultralight bosons that would
mediate these are predicted to exist in several well-motivated extensions of the Standard …

Bounds on ultralight bosons from the Event Horizon Telescope observation of Sgr A

AK Saha, P Parashari, TN Maity, A Dubey… - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
Recent observation of Sagittarius A∗(Sgr A∗) by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
collaboration has uncovered various unanswered questions in black hole (BH) physics …

Probing ultralight isospin-violating mediators at GW170817

Z Liu, ZW Tang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Gravitational wave (GW) signals arising from binary neutron star mergers offer new,
sensitive probes to ultralight mediators. Here we analyze the GW signals in the GW170817 …

Numerical Analysis of Resonant Axion-Photon Mixing: Part I

EU Ginés, D Noordhuis, C Weniger, SJ Witte - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Many present-day axion searches attempt to probe the mixing of axions and photons, which
occurs in the presence of an external magnetic field. While this process is well-understood in …