2 papers
astro-ph.CO2022
Gravitational lensing of pulsars as a probe of dark matter halos
Francesca von Braun-Bates
A particular open problem in cosmology is whether dark matter on small scales is clumpy, forming gravitationally-bound halos distributed within the Galaxy. The practical difficulti…
astro-ph.CO2018
Universality of the halo mass function in screened gravity theories
Francesca von Braun-Bates, Julien Devriendt
We examine the efficacy of the halo mass function as a probe of , symmetron and DGP gravity. We develop an excursion-set method to generalise a range of popular HMF fitting f…