3 papers
hep-ph2019
Leak-in Dark Matter
Jared A. Evans, Cristian Gaidau, Jessie Shelton
We introduce leak-in dark matter, a novel out-of-equilibrium origin for the dark matter (DM) in the universe. We provide a comprehensive and unified discussion of a minimal, intern…
astro-ph.HE2019
Dark matter heating of gas accreting onto Sgr A
Elizabeth R. Bennewitz, Cristian Gaidau, Thomas W. Baumgarte +1
We study effects of heating by dark matter (DM) annihilation on black hole gas accretion. We observe that, for reasonable assumptions about DM densities in spikes around supermassi…
hep-ph2018
A Solar System Test of Self-Interacting Dark Matter
Cristian Gaidau, Jessie Shelton
Dark matter (DM) self-interactions affect the gravitational capture of DM in the Sun and Earth differently as a simple consequence of the differing kinematics of collisions within…