no code implementations • 18 Dec 2020 • Francesca Scarcella, Daniele Gaggero, Riley Connors, Julien Manshanden, Massimo Ricotti, Gianfranco Bertone
Isolated black holes in our Galaxy have eluded detection so far.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
1 code implementation • 30 Nov 2020 • Joeri Hermans, Nilanjan Banik, Christoph Weniger, Gianfranco Bertone, Gilles Louppe
A statistical analysis of the observed perturbations in the density of stellar streams can in principle set stringent contraints on the mass function of dark matter subhaloes, which in turn can be used to constrain the mass of the dark matter particle.
1 code implementation • 28 Feb 2020 • Bradley J. Kavanagh, David A. Nichols, Gianfranco Bertone, Daniele Gaggero
A dark matter overdensity around a black hole may significantly alter the dynamics of the black hole's merger with another compact object.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
no code implementations • 6 Nov 2019 • Nilanjan Banik, Jo Bovy, Gianfranco Bertone, Denis Erkal, T. J. L. de Boer
New data from the $\textit{Gaia}$ satellite, when combined with accurate photometry from the Pan-STARRS survey, allow us to accurately estimate the properties of the GD-1 stream.
Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 3 May 2019 • Gianfranco Bertone, Adam Coogan, Daniele Gaggero, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Christoph Weniger
Observational constraints on gamma rays produced by the annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles around primordial black holes (PBHs) imply that these two classes of Dark Matter candidates cannot coexist.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
no code implementations • 8 Nov 2016 • Gianfranco Bertone, Marc Peter Deisenroth, Jong Soo Kim, Sebastian Liem, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Max Welling
The interpretation of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data in the framework of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) theories is hampered by the need to run computationally expensive event generators and detector simulators.