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Search for Dark Matter Induced Airglow in Planetary Atmospheres
Carlos Blanco, Rebecca K. Leane, Marianne Moore +1
We point out that dark matter can illuminate planetary skies via ultraviolet airglow. Dark matter annihilation products can excite molecular hydrogen, which then deexcites to produ…
Dark Matter Halo Parameters from Overheated Exoplanets via Bayesian Hierarchical Inference
María Benito, Konstantin Karchev, Rebecca K. Leane +3
Dark Matter (DM) can become captured, deposit annihilation energy, and hence increase the heat flow in exoplanets and brown dwarfs. Detecting such a DM-induced heating in a populat…
Dark Branches of Immortal Stars at the Galactic Center
Isabelle John, Rebecca K. Leane, Tim Linden
We show that stars in the inner parsec of the Milky Way can be significantly affected by dark matter annihilation, producing population-level effects that are visible in a Hertzspr…
Optimal Celestial Bodies for Dark Matter Detection
Rebecca K. Leane, Joshua Tong
A wide variety of celestial bodies have been considered as dark matter detectors. Which stands the best chance of delivering the discovery of dark matter? Which is the most powerfu…
Dark Kinetic Heating of Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
Javier F. Acevedo, Rebecca K. Leane, Aidan J. Reilly
Dark kinetic heating of neutron stars has been previously studied as a promising dark matter detection avenue. Kinetic heating occurs when dark matter is sped up to relativistic sp…
Transmon Qubit Constraints on Dark Matter-Nucleon Scattering
Anirban Das, Noah Kurinsky, Rebecca K. Leane
We recently pointed out that power measurements of single quasiparticle devices can be used to detect dark matter. These devices have the lowest known energy thresholds, far surpas…