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astro-ph.CO2026

JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey V: Hints of self-interacting dark matter from 29 quadruply imaged quasars

D. Gilman, A. M. Nierenberg, J. Gurian +21

Theories of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) predict the eventual core collapse of dark matter halos, a process that transforms these structures into extremely efficient gravita…

astro-ph.CO2026

A Unified Halo Mass Function Across Dark Matter Models from High-Resolution Multi-Scale Simulations

Andrew J. Benson, Ethan O. Nadler, Xiaolong Du +1

We measure the dark matter halo mass function, with backsplash halos removed, from a wide range of cosmological-box and zoom-in simulations. These include the MultiDark Planck boxe…

astro-ph.CO2026

The free-streaming length of dark matter from JWST observations of 28 strong gravitational lenses

D. Gilman, A. M. Nierenberg, T. Treu +24

The formation of gravitationally bound overdensities of dark matter (DM), or \textit{halos}, is a generic prediction of theories with particle DM. We present a measurement of halo…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Sensitivity of Substructure Lensing to SIDM Core-collapse Model Variation

Charlie Mace, Birendra Dhanasingham, Zhichao Carton Zeng +4

Strong gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of dark matter substructure, and shows particularly strong promise as a test of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM). Th…

astro-ph.CO2026

Measurement of the minimum cold dark matter halo mass with strong gravitational lensing

A. M. Nierenberg, D. Gilman, T. Treu +19

We explore the lowest mass limit that can be placed on the halo mass function in CDM using 28 strong gravitational lenses. For this purpose, we study an extreme model in which the…

astro-ph.CO2025

JWST Lensed Quasar Dark Matter Survey III: Dark Matter Sensitive Flux Ratios and Warm Dark Matter Constraint from the Full Sample

R. E. Keeley, A. M. Nierenberg, D. Gilman +24

We present the full sample of measurements of the warm dust emission of 31 strongly-lensed, multiply imaged quasars, observed with JWST MIRI multiband imaging, which we use to cons…

astro-ph.CO2025

JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey IV: Stringent warm dark matter constraints from the joint reconstruction of extended lensed arcs and quasar flux ratios

D. Gilman, A. M. Nierenberg, T. Treu +23

We present a measurement of the free-streaming length of dark matter (DM) and subhalo abundance around 28 quadruple image strong lenses using observations from JWST MIRI presented…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

Faster than SAM: An empirical model for the tidal evolution of dark matter substructure around strong gravitational lenses

Xiaolong Du, Daniel Gilman, Tommaso Treu +2

Strong gravitational lenses enable direct inference of halo abundance and internal structure, which in turn enable constraints on the nature of dark matter and the primordial matte…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

JWST Lensed quasar dark matter survey II: Strongest gravitational lensing limit on the dark matter free streaming length to date

Ryan E. Keeley, Anna M. Nierenberg, Daniel Gilman +20

This is the second in a series of papers in which we use JWST MIRI multiband imaging to measure the warm dust emission in a sample of 31 multiply imaged quasars, to be used as a pr…

astro-ph.CO2023

JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey I: Description and First Results

A. M. Nierenberg, R. E. Keeley, D. Sluse +18

The flux ratios of gravitationally lensed quasars provide a powerful probe of the nature of dark matter. Importantly, these ratios are sensitive to small-scale structure, irrespect…