AIP summer meeting 2025

Astronomical constraints on dark matter in the local environment

2 Dec 2025, 12:10

30m

Hope Theatre (Building 40)

Focus session invited talk Combining astronomy and particle physics in the hunt for dark matter Focus Session: Combining astronomy and particle physics in the hunt for dark matter

Speaker

Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Description

The spatial and velocity distributions of dark matter in the local environment are a crucial input to searches for particle dark matter, for both direct experiments based on Earth, and astronomical observations of the galactic centre. Despite this, there are considerable uncertainties that directly impact the current and future sensitivity to particle dark matter signals. I will summarise what constraints astronomical observations currently place on the local dark matter population.