7 papers
Boosted Dark Matter from Sagittarius A
Javier F. Acevedo, Adam Ritz
It was recently demonstrated that black hole binaries can gravitationally accelerate ambient dark matter (DM), producing a continuous flux of particles with velocities far exceedin…
Binary-boosted Dark Matter
Javier F. Acevedo, Adam Ritz
We explore the aggregate effect of binary systems on the Milky Way's dark matter (DM) velocity distribution with Monte Carlo simulations. Through gravitational interactions with bi…
Dark Drag Around Sagittarius A*
Javier F. Acevedo, Aidan J. Reilly, Lillian Santos-Olmsted
We analyze the effect of Dark Matter (DM) - Standard Model (SM) non-gravitational interactions on the orbital dynamics of celestial bodies near the supermassive black hole Sagittar…
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…
Sub-MHz Radio Background from Ultralight Dark Photon Dark Matter
Javier F. Acevedo, Amit Bhoonah, Kun Cheng
Dark photons are a well-motivated candidate for dark matter, but their detection becomes challenging for ultralight masses with both experimental and astrophysical probes. In this…
Dark Matter Raining on DUNE and Other Large Volume Detectors
Javier F. Acevedo, Joshua Berger, Peter B. Denton
Direct detection is a powerful means of searching for particle physics evidence of dark matter (DM) heavier than about a GeV with volume, low-threshold detect…