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Axion instability supernovae (2022)
Journal Article
Sakstein, J., Croon, D., & McDermott, S. D. (2022). Axion instability supernovae. Physical Review D, 105(9), Article 095038. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.105.095038

and strongly coupled. In this work, we investigate the astrophysical consequences of such a scenario for massive stars by incorporating new contributions to the equation of state into a state of the art stellar structure code. We focus on axions in t... Read More about Axion instability supernovae.

Machine learning a manifold (2022)
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Craven, S., Croon, D., Cutting, D., & Houtz, R. (2022). Machine learning a manifold. Physical Review D, 105(9), Article 096030. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.105.096030

We propose a simple method to identify a continuous Lie algebra symmetry in a dataset through regression by an artificial neural network. Our proposal takes advantage of the Oðϵ2Þ scaling of the output variable under infinitesimal symmetry transforma... Read More about Machine learning a manifold.

Light dark matter through resonance scanning (2022)
Journal Article
Croon, D., Elor, G., Houtz, R., Murayama, H., & White, G. (2022). Light dark matter through resonance scanning. Physical Review D, 105(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.105.l061303

We propose a new out-of-equilibrium production mechanism of light dark matter: resonance scanning. If the dark matter mass evolved in the early Universe, resonant production may have occurred for a wide range of light dark matter masses today. We sho... Read More about Light dark matter through resonance scanning.

Find the Gap: Black Hole Population Analysis with an Astrophysically Motivated Mass Function (2021)
Journal Article
Baxter, E. J., Croon, D., McDermott, S. D., & Sakstein, J. (2021). Find the Gap: Black Hole Population Analysis with an Astrophysically Motivated Mass Function. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 916(2), Article L16. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac11fc

We introduce a novel black hole mass function that realistically models the physics of pair-instability supernovae with a minimal number of parameters. Applying this to all events in the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 2 (GWTC-2), we... Read More about Find the Gap: Black Hole Population Analysis with an Astrophysically Motivated Mass Function.