3-7 noviembre 2025
Europe/Madrid timezone

Invited: Mapping Gravity with Extragalactic Streams and Citizen Science

3 nov. 2025 16:45
15m
Room 1.1+1.2 (ADEIT)

Room 1.1+1.2

ADEIT

Talk Dark matter: indirect detection COS / DMI

Ponente

Nathaniel Starkman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Descripción

Wide-field surveys like Euclid mark a new era of extragalactic stellar stream studies, with exciting applications in measuring baryon and dark matter distributions, and connecting galaxies to their cosmological context.

I present results from a pilot study combining Euclid imaging with Zooniverse classifications to detect and analyze stellar streams of extragalactic systems. We use projected stream morphologies to constrain the shape and barycenter of each host galaxy’s potential, jointly probing baryonic and dark matter distributions. These inferences complement lensing, with sensitivity to halo geometry on tens of kpc scales. The method enables both stacked, population-level constraints on halo triaxiality and barycenters, and individual-halo inference on the same. Already, we find promising agreement with ΛCDM predictions. Our program will identify thousands of streams, enabling precise constraints on halo shapes and barycenters across large samples and redshifts, offering a new dynamical test of dark structures.

Autores primarios

Nathaniel Starkman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Sr. Jake Nibauer (Princeton) Prof. Sara Pearson (University of Copenhagen) Sr. Sirui Wu (University of Copenhagen) Dr. Michael Walmsley (University of Toronto) Lina Necib (MIT) Prof. Jo Bovy (University of Toronto)

Materiales de la presentación

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