Probing Small-Scale Power Spectra with Pulsar Timing Arrays
PIRSA ID:
21030028
Series:
Particle Physics
Event Type:
Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Particle Physics
End date:
Speaker(s):
- Andrea Mitridate, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Models of Dark Matter (DM) can leave unique imprints on the Universe's small scale structure by boosting density perturbations on small scales. We study the capability of Pulsar Timing Arrays to search for, and constrain, subhalos from such models. The models of DM we consider are ordinary adiabatic perturbations in ΛCDM, QCD axion miniclusters, models with early matter domination, and vector DM produced during inflation.