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Simulation-Informed High-Velocity Dark Matter in the Effective Theory of Direct Detection
Xiuyuan Zhang, Gonzalo Herrera, Andreas Thoyas +1
The interpretation and reach of direct detection (DD) experiments depend sensitively on the local dark matter (DM) velocity distribution, particularly its high-velocity tail. This…
When Streams Curve Away: a Test of Dark Matter from Extragalactic Stellar Stream Populations
Nathaniel Starkman, Jacob Nibauer, Sarah Pearson +2
The nature of dark matter sets the shape of galactic halos: collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) predicts triaxial halos, while scattering in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) ro…
From starlight to dark matter: a stochastic interpolation approach to map dark matter from stellar density
Xiaowei Ou, Lina Necib, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro +9
The dark matter halo profile in galaxies holds key information about the nature of dark matter and galaxy formation. Constraining the dark matter profile of galaxies beyond the Mil…
Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2026 Proceedings
Alexey Elykov, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe +81
The fourth "Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter" (MDvDM'26) meeting was held April 14-17, 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany, hosted by the Institute for Astroparticle Physics (…
From observing strategies to velocity dispersion bias: forward modeling unresolved binaries in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies
Xiaowei Ou, Andrew B. Pace, Nitya Kallivayalil +9
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) in the Milky Way are ideal probes of low-mass galaxy formation and dark matter because they are highly dark-matter dominated. In the lowest-mass s…
Baryon-Accelerated Core Collapse in SIDM Halos and its Imprint on Galactic Disks
Zeineb Mezghanni, Elliot Y. Davies, Adriana Dropulic +3
The gravitational coupling between dark matter (DM) halos and the baryonic structures they host is one of the most powerful windows into the particle nature of DM. Self-interacting…
Dark Matter in Draco and Boötes I: Hints of a Core in an Ultra-Faint Dwarf from Simulation-Based Inference
Tri Nguyen, Lina Necib, Ting S. Li +8
The density profiles of dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the most sensitive probes of dark matter physics, yet extracting them from noisy stellar kinematics remains a fundamenta…
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): The geometry of dark matter halos from extragalactic streams
Euclid Collaboration, N. Starkman, J. Nibauer +295
Wide-field surveys like Euclid mark a new era of extragalactic stellar stream studies. With a large number of streams, it is now possible to constrain the dark matter halos of gala…
Reconstructing Galactic Gravitational Potentials from Stellar Kinematics with Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Charlotte Myers, Nathaniel Starkman, Lina Necib
The gravitational potential of a galaxy encodes its mass distribution, formation history, and dark matter halo structure. Accurate potential models are therefore critical for inter…
The Dynamics of Old Inner Galaxy Stars in Milky Way-mass Galaxies Using FIRE-2 Simulations
Emma Tasso, Madeline Lucey, Robyn Sanderson +2
Understanding how galaxies like the Milky Way assembled over cosmic time remains a central question in astrophysics. Understanding the processes that shaped their formation and evo…
Mergers Matter: Gravothermal Collapse in Dwarf Halos with Self-Interacting Dark Matter
Maya Silverman, Abdelaziz Hussein, Arpit Arora +8
Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) models with large cross sections at relative velocities below can be tested with dwarf galaxy observations. We ana…
Galactic Amnesia: The Information Washout of the Milky Way Merger History
Lina Necib, Dylan Folsom, Elliot Y. Davies +2
The merger history of a galaxy leaves imprints on its present-day stellar chemodynamics, yet dynamical processes progressively erase this record. We ask: how far back in time, and…
Formation and Redshift Evolution of Dark Matter Spikes
Gonzalo Herrera, Abdelaziz Hussein, Lina Necib +2
Dark matter density spikes forming around adiabatically growing black holes can dramatically enhance indirect and direct detection signals. Canonical predictions, however, assume a…
Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Modeling Galactic Gravitational Potentials
Charlotte Myers, Nathaniel Starkman, Lina Necib
We introduce a physics-informed neural framework for modeling static and time-dependent galactic gravitational potentials. The method combines data-driven learning with embedded ph…
Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk geometry
John Preskill, Mykhaylo Usatyuk, Shreya Vardhan
One central question in quantum gravity is to understand how and why predictions from semiclassical gravity can break down in regimes with low spacetime curvature. One diagnostic o…
Probing Atomic Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in Milky Way-Mass Galaxies
Lucas S. Mandacarú Guerra, Stephanie O'Neil, Mariangela Lisanti +7
We present the first detailed analysis of the effects of dissipative dark matter on stellar streams. As a concrete example, we generate a cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulati…
The erasure of Galactic bar resonances by dark matter subhaloes
Elliot Y. Davies, Adam M. Dillamore, Vasily Belokurov +1
In the context of increasing appreciation for the coupling between the Galactic bar and the halo, we introduce a new framework using stars trapped in resonance with the bar to prob…
The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Dark Matter Density Profiles
Alex M. Garcia, Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey +23
In this work, we utilize a new suite of Milky Way-mass halos from the DREAMS Project, simulated with Cold Dark Matter (CDM), to quantify the influence of baryon feedback and intrin…
The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Satellite Galaxies
Jonah C. Rose, Mariangela Lisanti, Paul Torrey +24
We analyze the properties of satellite galaxies around 1,024 Milky Way-mass hosts from the DREAMS Project, simulated within a CDM cosmology. Utilizing the TNG galaxy-formation m…
Searching for Exoplanets Born Outside the Milky Way: VOYAGERS Survey Design
Robert Aloisi, Andrew Vanderburg, Melinda Soares-Furtado +44
Observations over the past few decades have found that planets are common around nearby stars in our Galaxy, but little is known about planets that formed outside the Milky Way. We…
How to Build an Empirical Speed Distribution for Dark Matter in the Solar Neighborhood
Tal Shpigel, Dylan Folsom, Mariangela Lisanti +3
The dark matter flux in a direct detection experiment depends on its local speed distribution. This distribution has been inferred from simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies, but…
Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Emission in MHD Galaxy Formation Simulations with Full Cosmic Ray Spectra
Isabel S. Sands, Philip F. Hopkins, Sam B. Ponnada +3
The Milky Way's galactic center is a highly dynamical, crowded environment. Gamma ray observations of this region, such as the excess of GeV scale gamma rays observed by Fermi LAT,…
Second public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation
Andrew Wetzel, Jenna Samuel, Pratik J. Gandhi +34
We describe the second data release (DR2) of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, available…
OTI on FIRE: Testing the Efficacy of Orbital Torus Imaging to Recover the Galactic Potential
Micah Oeur, Sarah R. Loebman, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +3
Orbital Torus Imaging (OTI) is a dynamical inference method for determining the Milky Way's gravitational potential using stellar survey data. OTI uses gradients in stellar astroph…