ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Decoding Dark Matter with Stellar Streams from Beyond the Milky Way
One of the key questions driving astrophysics research today is the nature of dark matter, which comprises 80% of the matter in the Universe. Stellar streams are sensitive to the distribution of dark matter and to the population of dark matter subhalos in galaxies, both of which depend on the mass and interactions of the dark matter particle. My proposed work will use the wealth of incoming stellar stream data materializing over the next five years from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and the Euclid Space Telescope to measure dark matter halo masses, shapes and concentrations, as well as subhalo populations of external galaxies. I will lead a…
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