7–11 Aug 2017
Columbus, Ohio, USA
US/Eastern timezone

Searching for dark disks using Gaia

8 Aug 2017, 14:15
15m
Small Theater (The Athenaeum)

Small Theater

The Athenaeum

Oral Dark matter (direct detection, indirect detection, theory, etc.) Dark matter

Speaker

KATELIN SCHUTZ (UC Berkeley)

Description

Astrometry in the Gaia era will give an unprecedented amount of information about the full 6D phase space distribution of the local galactic halo. In this talk, I will use an analysis of vertical motions to show how the Gaia data will be sensitive to the presence of structures including dark disks (either from novel dark matter microphysics or from baryonic dragging.)

Primary authors

KATELIN SCHUTZ (UC Berkeley) Tongyan Lin Benjamin Safdi (massachusetts institute of technology) Chih-Liang Wu (MIT)

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