3 papers
astro-ph.CO2025
Dynamical Heating from Dark Compact Objects and Axion Minihalos: Implications for the 21-cm Signal
Badal Bhalla, Aurora Ireland, Hongwan Liu +2
The temperature of baryons at the end of the cosmic dark ages can be inferred from observations of the 21-cm hyperfine transition in neutral hydrogen. Any energy injection from the…
hep-ph2025
Fast and Fewrious: Stochastic binary perturbations from fast compact objects
Badal Bhalla, Benjamin V. Lehmann, Kuver Sinha +1
Massive compact objects soften binaries. This process has been used for decades to constrain the population of such objects, particularly as a component of dark matter (DM). The ef…
hep-ph2025
Supernova-Boosted Dark Matter at Large-Volume Neutrino Detectors
Badal Bhalla, Fazlollah Hajkarim, Doojin Kim +1
Core-collapse supernovae, among the universe's most energetic events, offer a novel window into the dark sector by potentially producing a flux of boosted dark matter (BDM). We exp…