2 papers
astro-ph.CO2025
Constraining compact dark matter with time-varying quasar equivalent widths
Georgios Vernardos, James Hung Hsu Chan, Frederic Courbin
One of the possible explanations for dark matter is that of compact dark objects of baryonic origin, such as black holes or even planets. Accumulating evidence, including the disco…
astro-ph.GA2025
Accelerating lensed quasar discovery and modeling with physics-informed variational autoencoders
Irham T. Andika, Stefan Schuldt, Sherry H. Suyu +5
Strongly lensed quasars provide valuable insights into the rate of cosmic expansion, the distribution of dark matter in foreground deflectors, and the characteristics of quasar hos…