Speaker
William DeRocco
(University of Maryland, College Park)
Description
Though dark matter has traditionally been sought in the form of a new, weakly-interacting particle, a viable alternative is that dark matter instead forms macroscopic clumps whose rarity has allowed them to elude detection up until this point. This may change in the coming years with new astronomical facilities allowing us to probe the Universe in ways previously unachievable. In this talk, I will talk about how the enormous datasets that will be produced by upcoming space-based missions such as JUICE and the Roman Space Telescope, as well as ground-based facilities such as LSST, may provide our first window into the world of big dark matter.
Author
William DeRocco
(University of Maryland, College Park)