Dark Matter and Stars: Multi-Messenger Probes of Dark Matter and Modified Gravity

Dark Stars

May 4, 2023, 9:40 AM

40m

Centro de Congressos (Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon)

Speaker

Prof. Chris Kouvaris

Description

Dark matter could possibly form its own compact star-like objects. Although composed of dark matter, there are several ways that these "dark stars" can be observed in the sky, through lensing, gravitational waves from mergers and other exotic astrophysical processes.

Presentation materials

DM23_Lisbon.pdf