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Axion Constraints from White Dwarf Cooling in 47 Tucanae
Leesa Fleury, Alysa Obertas, Harvey Richer +1
We analyse the cooling of white dwarfs in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae to look for evidence of axion emission affecting the rate of white dwarf cooling. If axions exist and coup…
The Cooling of Old White Dwarfs in 47 Tucanae
Leesa Fleury, Harvey Richer, Jeremy Heyl
We analyse the cooling of white dwarfs in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) using deep observations from the Hubble Space Telescope that resolve the white dwarf cooling sequ…
Constraining Axions with ZTF J1901+1458
Leesa Fleury, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl
The axion-nucleon coupling enables the production of axions through the decay of excited isotopes, and axions produced in the Sun through this process are ofte…
The origin of ultramassive white dwarfs: hints from Gaia EDR3
Leesa Fleury, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl
Gaia Data Release 2 revealed a population of ultramassive white dwarfs on the Q branch that are moving anomalously fast for a local disc population with their young photometric age…
The Cooling of Massive White Dwarfs from Gaia EDR3
Leesa Fleury, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl
We determine the distribution of cooling ages of massive Gaia EDR3 white dwarfs identified with over 90% probability within 200 pc and with mass in the range 0.95-1.25 . U…
Intermediate-Mass Stars Become Magnetic White Dwarfs
Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl, Harvey Richer +8
When a star exhausts its nuclear fuel, it either explodes as a supernova or more quiescently becomes a white dwarf, an object about half the mass of our Sun with a radius of about…
Axion String Dynamics I: 2+1D
Leesa M. Fleury, Guy D. Moore
If the axion exists and if the initial axion field value is uncorrelated at causally disconnected points, then it should be possible to predict the efficiency of cosmological axion…
Axion dark matter: strings and their cores
Leesa Fleury, Guy D. Moore
Axions constitute a well-motivated dark matter candidate, and if PQ symmetry breaking occurred after inflation, it should be possible to make a clean prediction for the relation be…