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The Return of the Templates: Revisiting the Galactic Center Excess with Multi-Messenger Observations
Ilias Cholis, Yi-Ming Zhong, Samuel D. McDermott +1
The Galactic center excess (GCE) remains one of the most intriguing discoveries from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. We revisit the characteristics of the GCE by…
Cosmologically Degenerate Fermions
Marcela Carena, Nina M. Coyle, Ying-Ying Li +2
Dark matter (DM) with a mass below a few keV must have a phase space distribution that differs substantially from the Standard Model particle thermal phase space: otherwise, it wil…
The Milky Way, Coming into Focus: Precision Astrometry Probes its Evolution, and its Dark Matter
Susan Gardner, Samuel D. McDermott, Brian Yanny
The growing trove of precision astrometric observations from the Gaia space telescope and other surveys is revealing the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way in ever more exquis…
Neutron Star Quantum Death by Small Black Holes
Pierce Giffin, John Lloyd, Samuel D. McDermott +1
Neutron stars can be destroyed by black holes at their center accreting material and eventually swallowing the entire star. Here we note that the accretion model adopted in the lit…
Find the Gap: Black Hole Population Analysis with an Astrophysically Motivated Mass Function
Eric J. Baxter, Djuna Croon, Samuel D. McDermott +1
We introduce a novel black hole mass function which realistically models the physics of star formation and pair instability supernova with a minimal number of parameters. Applying…
Dark Matter Daily Modulation With Anisotropic Organic Crystals
Carlos Blanco, Yonatan Kahn, Benjamin Lillard +1
Aromatic organic compounds, because of their small excitation energies ~ O(few eV) and scintillating properties, are promising targets for detecting dark matter of mass ~ O(few MeV…