28 August 2023 to 1 September 2023
University of Vienna
Europe/Vienna timezone

A Radio Telescope Search For Dark Matter in the L- and S- Bands

30 Aug 2023, 14:15
15m
Hörsaal 3 lecture hall (University of Vienna)

Hörsaal 3 lecture hall

University of Vienna

Universitätsring 1 A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Parallel talk Dark matter and its detection Dark matter and its detection

Speaker

Aya Keller (UC Berkeley)

Description

Despite recent developments of sensitive dark matter detectors, the mass and nature of dark matter remain poorly constrained, and thus a broad observational strategy may prove helpful toward its ultimate identification. We have developed and tested a novel model-independent approach which utilizes the recent Breakthrough Listen public data release of three years of observation by the Green Bank Telescope. The method assumes only a quasi-monochromatic radio line from decay or annihilation of the dark matter, and additionally that the line exhibits a Doppler shift with position according to the solar motion through a static galactic halo. This approach has been tested and refined on a subset of L-band data; in this talk we will report results from the full L- and S-band data sets

Submitted on behalf of a Collaboration? No

Authors

Alexander Friedrich Leder Ms Anna Dawes Aya Keller (UC Berkeley) Prof. Karl Van Bibber (University of California Berkeley)

Presentation materials