25–28 Mar 2020
UCLA
US/Pacific timezone

Gravitational probes of exotic compact objects

27 Mar 2020, 08:45
15m
PAB- 1-425 (UCLA)

PAB- 1-425

UCLA

UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy 475 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Talk Indirect dark matter detection Session 11

Speaker

Dr Djuna Croon (TRIUMF)

Description

In this talk I will discuss experimental probes of dark compact objects in the new era of gravitational wave astrophysics. Such proposed objects include scalar (boson) stars, Q-balls, and dark matter clumps inside neutron stars. I will review the properties that will help us distinguish them from astrophysical objects, and the resulting gravitational wave phenomenology. I will also discuss connections with other astrophysical probes, such as gravitational (micro)lensing.

Author

Dr Djuna Croon (TRIUMF)

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