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Microlensing Events in Five Years of Photometry from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Ruocheng Zhai, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Shude Mao +5
Microlensing has a unique advantage for detecting dark objects in the Milky Way, such as free-floating planets, neutron stars, and stellar-mass black holes. Most microlensing surve…
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Natal Kicks from the Galactic Center and Implications on their Environment and the Roman Space Telescope
Carlos Jurado, Smadar Naoz, Casey Y. Lam +1
Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, harbor a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) weighing millions to billions of solar masses. Surrounding these SMBHs are dense regions of…
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Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter Simulations Using PopSyCLE
K. Pruett, W. Dawson, M. S. Medford +6
Primordial black holes (PBHs), theorized to have originated in the early universe, are speculated to be a viable form of dark matter. If they exist, they should be detectable throu…