23–26 May 2024
Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M University
America/Chicago timezone

Dark Matter in the Time of Gravitational Waves

24 May 2024, 16:35
25m
Hawking Auditorium (Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M University)

Hawking Auditorium

Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M University

Speaker

Tao Xu (The University of Oklahoma)

Description

The observation of gravitational waves opens a new window for exploring astrophysics and cosmology. These messengers enable the concurrent measurement of their amplitudes and phases, facilitating a precise analysis of wave production and propagation. In this talk, I will demonstrate how gravitational waves can be utilized to study the properties of dark matter. Specifically, I will use wave dark matter as an example to show that gravitational waveforms, along with further multi-messenger observations involving photon signals, reveal distinctive features. These features can be probed with the ongoing LIGO and upcoming LISA missions.

Authors

Badal Bhalla (University of Oklahoma) Fazlollah Hajkarim (University of Oklahoma) Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma) Mudit Rai (Texas AM University) Tao Xu (The University of Oklahoma)

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