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Enhanced Disruption of Axion Minihalos by Multiple Stellar Encounters in the Milky Way
Ian DSouza, Chris Gordon, John C. Forbes
If QCD axion dark matter formed post-inflation, axion miniclusters emerged from isocurvature fluctuations and later merged hierarchically into minihalos. These minihalos, potential…
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Non-linear scattering of plane gravitational and electromagnetic waves
Breanna Camden, Chris Stevens, John Forbes
Fully non-linear, plane-symmetric exact solutions of the Einstein equations describing the scattering of gravitational and electromagnetic waves have existed for many years. For th…