15 papers
Eliminating photon transport in long-baseline optical interferometry using quantum memories
Yousef K. Chahine, Chaohan Cui, William DeRocco +11
In this paper, we describe the fundamental operating mechanisms of optical interferometry using quantum memory and entanglement. We show how these remove the optical delay line bot…
The Dynamics of Planetary Ejection
Malena Rice, William DeRocco, Sean N. Raymond
The ubiquity of free-floating planets inferred from microlensing and direct imaging surveys suggests that planetary ejection---a process in which planets initially born encircling…
The Persistent Missing Mass Problem in Planet Formation
Eve J. Lee, William DeRocco, Sam Hadden +1
Recent ground-based microlensing surveys suggest that our Galaxy may abound with small free floating planets, potentially up to 21 such planets per star. We explore the impli…
Technique-agnostic exoplanet demography for the Roman era -- I. Testing a demography retrieval framework using simulated Kepler-like transit datasets
Akshay Priyadarshi, Eamonn Kerins, Michael D. Albrow +41
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will unveil for the first time the full architecture of planetary systems across Galactic distances through the discovery of up to 200…
Measuring gravitational lensing time delays with quantum information processing
Zhenning Liu, William DeRocco, Shiming Gu +6
The gravitational fields of astrophysical bodies bend the light around them, creating multiple paths along which light from a distant source can arrive at Earth. Measuring the diff…
Dark wounds on icy moons: Ganymede's subsurface ocean as a dark matter detector
William DeRocco
Dark matter in the form of macroscopic composites is largely unconstrained at masses of g. In this mass range, dark matter may collide with planetary bodies…