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The nature of the possible progenitor channels of thermonuclear and core-collapse supernovae (SNe) is a longstanding problem in astrophysics. A solution to this problem is to measure the distribution of timescales on which SNe occur after a brief burst of star-formation, known as the delay-time distribution (DTD). The DTD can be measured from a SN survey and a set of star-formation histories, and since any progenitor model will predict a unique delay-time, the measured DTD can directly constrain the progenitor evolution models. However, high-quality DTDs can only be measured in the Local Group galaxies where reliable star-formation history maps have been constructed from resolved stellar populations. Likewise, the abundance of well-studied supernova remnants (SNRs) can serve as ‘effective' SN surveys. I will discuss the progress made by our group towards a Local Group DTD. We have a model that can extract the SN rate from a survey of SNRs by simulating their radio visibility times and accounting for possible completeness issues. The statistical methods for calculating the DTD is being developed and tested on catalogs of various transient objects in the Magellanic Clouds. With upcoming radio SNR surveys that will exploit the unprecedented resolution and sensitivity of facilities such as the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (EVLA), we expect to measure a Local Group SN DTD with a high signal-to-noise, and relatively free from the systematic biases that affect measurements in extragalactic surveys.font>
12:30 pm, Friday, Dec 15th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Discovery of GeV gamma-ray emission from the LMC B0443-6657 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Modeling the Impact of Baryons on Subhalo Populations with Machine Learning
Constraining the properties of the magnetic turbulence in the Geminga region using HAWC γ-ray data
Indirect dark matter searches in the dwarf satellite galaxy Ursa Major II with the MAGIC Telescopes
Flavor and energy inference for the high-energy IceCube neutrinos
MOND simulation suggests the origin of some peculiarities in the Local Group
12:30 pm, Friday, Dec 8th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Energy Calibration of CALET Onboard the International Space Station
Pulsar Rotation Measures and Large-scale Magnetic Field Reversals in the Galactic Disk
Backgrounds and pulse shape discrimination in the ArDM liquid argon TPC
Design and Construction of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector
Construction of KAGRA: an Underground Gravitational Wave Observatory
Neutrino Oscillation Measurements Computed in Quantum Field Theory
12:30 pm, Friday, Dec 1st in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Measuring the Local Diffusion Coefficient with H.E.S.S. Observations of Very High-Energy Electrons
Measurement of the multi-TeV neutrino cross section with IceCube using Earth absorption
Direct detection of a break in the teraelectronvolt cosmic-ray spectrum of electrons and positrons
All-flavor search for a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos with 9 years of ANTARES data
First results on low-mass dark matter from the CRESST-III experiment
12:30 pm, Friday, Nov 17th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Extended gamma-ray sources around pulsars constrain the origin of the positron flux at Earth
GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
Search for Boosted Dark Matter Interacting With Electrons in Super-Kamiokande
The Fermi-LAT GeV Excess Traces Stellar Mass in the Galactic Bulge
Photogravimagnetic assists of light sails: a mixed blessing for Breakthrough Starshot?
A rapid cosmic-ray increase in BC 3372-3371 from ancient buried tree rings in China
12:30 pm, Friday, Nov 3rd in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Robust measurement of supernova ν_e spectra with future neutrino detectors
GRB170817A/GW170817 is not a short gamma-ray burst, most likely an intermediate one
Diffuse γ-ray emission from self-confined cosmic rays around Galactic sources
Time resolved 2 million year old supernova activity discovered in Earth's microfossil record
12:30 pm, Friday, Oct 27th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Examining the time dependence of DAMA's modulation amplitude
Dark Matter-Neutrino Interaction in Light of Collider and Neutrino Telescope Data
Fermionic Light Dark Matter particles and the New Physics of Neutron Stars
Reconciling cosmic ray diffusion with Galactic magnetic field models
Limits on quantum gravity effects from Swift short gamma-ray bursts
12:30 pm, Friday, Oct 20th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
12:30 pm, Friday, Oct 13th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
What the Milky Way's Dwarfs tell us about the Galactic Center extended excess
KASCADE-Grande Limits on the Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Flux between 100 TeV and 1 EeV
Probing the EBL evolution at high redshift using GRBs detected with the Fermi-LAT
12:30 pm, Friday, Oct 6th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
All-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum measured by the HAWC experiment from 10 to 500 TeV
The GAPS Experiment to Search for Dark Matter using Low-energy Antimatter
A multi-messenger study of the total galactic high-energy neutrino emission
Constraining Galactic dark matter with gamma-ray pixel counts statistics
Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm
12:30 pm, Friday, Sep 29th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Special Talk!
Speaker: Sumit Sarbadhicary (University of Pittsburgh, PITT PACC)
Title: The progenitors of supernovae from Local Group stellar populations and supernova remnants
Abstract:
The NOvA experiment aims to answer these questions and much more. Muon neutrinos are produced at Fermilab in Illinois, and directed 810km towards Minnesota, where the disappearance of muon neutrinos and the appearance of electron neutrinos is measured. This talk will present the latest exciting results coming from the NOvA experiment!
Evidence of internal dissipation origin for the high energy prompt emission of GRB~170214A
First results from the NEWS-G direct dark matter search experiment at the LSM
Probing decaying heavy dark matter with the 4-year IceCube HESE data
The TUS detector of extreme energy cosmic rays on board the Lomonosov satellite
The Spatially Uniform Spectrum of the Fermi Bubbles: the Leptonic AGN Jet Scenario
Universal cosmic rays energy spectrum and the mass composition at the 'ankle' and above
11:30 am, Friday, Jun 16th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Fast flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos: Classifying instabilities via dispersion relations
Characterising the VHE diffuse emission in the central 200 parsecs of our Galaxy with H.E.S.S
Insights into neutrino decoupling gleaned from considerations of the role of electron mass
11:30 am, Friday, Jun 9th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
High-energy cosmic ray nuclei from tidal disruption events: origin, survival, and implications
First star formation in ultra-light particle dark matter cosmology
Dark Matter Limits From Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory
First all-flavour Neutrino Point-like Source Search with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
Constraining high-energy neutrino emission from choked jets in stripped-envelope supernovae
Supernovae in compact star clusters as sources of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos
11:30 am, Friday, Jun 2nd in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Black Mergers, Quiet Kilonovae, and r-Process Afterglow Donuts From Dark Matter
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
Probing Primordial-Black-Hole Dark Matter with Gravitational Waves
Supernovae and their host galaxies - V. The vertical distribution of supernovae in disc galaxies
Cosmic-Ray and Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with a Nuclear Cascade
11:30 am, Friday, May 26th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Comparing Neutron Star Kicks to Supernova Remnant Asymmetries
First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment
Enhanced stellar neutrino emissivities in annihilating Coy Dark Matter
Distorted Neutrino Oscillations From Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter
Point-source and diffuse high-energy neutrino emission from Type IIn supernovae
Search for neutrinoless quadruple-β decay of 150Nd with the NEMO-3 detector
11:30 am, Friday, May 19th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Special Talk!
Speaker: Juri Smirnov (INFN)
Title: Dark Matter Bound States
Abstract:
I will discuss the importance of bound state formation in processes relevant for dark matter physics. Such as the relic density computation and possible late time interactions leading to a indirect detection signature. It will be argued that bound state formation is a logical continuation of Sommerfeld enhancement and can even become the dominant non-relativistic effect in certain regimes. I will discuss spectra from WIMP dark matter capture processes allowing to obtain spectroscopic information on the structure of dark matter interactions. The talk is based on the following recent work 1702.01141.
Detecting High-Energy Neutrinos from the Next Galactic Supernova
Recognising Axionic Dark Matter by Compton and de-Broglie Scale Modulation of Pulsar Timing
Search for WIMP Inelastic Scattering off Xenon Nuclei with XENON100
11:30 am, Friday, May 12th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Search for astrophysical sources of neutrinos using cascade events in IceCube
Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section obtained from the complete LUX exposure
11:30 am, Friday, May 5th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
New Constraints on all flavour Galactic diffuse neutrino emission with the ANTARES telescope
Characterizing the population of pulsars in the Galactic bulge with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Enhancing Dark Matter Annihilation Rates with Dark Bremsstrahlung
Discovery potential for directional Dark Matter detection with nuclear emulsions
Non-standard interactions of solar neutrinos in dark matter experiments
11:30 am, Friday, Apr 28th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Gigahertz-peaked spectra pulsars and thermal absorption model
Cosmic-ray electron+positron spectrum from 7 GeV to 2 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
No evidence for a significant AGN contribution to cosmic hydrogen reionization
Comparisons of Jet Properties between GeV Radio Galaxies and Blazars
Three-Dimensional Structure of the Magnetic Field in the Disk of the Milky Way
11:30 am, Friday, Apr 21st in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Nonstandard interactions in solar neutrino oscillations with Hyper-Kamiokande and JUNO
Axion Like Particles and Recent Observations of the Cosmic Infrared Background Radiation
A Fresh Approach to Forecasting in Astroparticle Physics and Dark Matter Searches
The Fermi Galactic Center GeV Excess and Implications for Dark Matter
11:30 am, Friday, Apr 14th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Dark Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars and An Infrared Window On WIMPs, SIMPs, and Pure Higgsinos
IceCube and HAWC constraints on very-high-energy emission from the Fermi bubbles
A Parametric Study of the Acoustic Mechanism for Core-Collapse Supernovae
First searches for axions and axion-like particles with the LUX experiment
11:30 am, Friday, Apr 7th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Special Talk!
Speaker: Nicholas Rodd (MIT)
Title: Gamma-ray Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter and Implications for IceCube
Abstract:
Utilizing the Fermi measurement of the gamma-ray spectrum toward the inner Galaxy, I will explain how to derive some of the strongest constraints on dark matter lifetimes in the mass range from hundreds of MeV to above an EeV. The limits derived disfavour a decaying DM interpretation of the astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube, and I will review why that possibility has received some attention in the literature recently.
Indirect searches of Galactic diffuse dark matter in INO-MagICAL detector
Linking High-Energy Cosmic Particles by Black-Hole Jets Embedded in Large-Scale Structures
Peeking into the Origins of IceCube Neutrinos: I. Buried Transient TeV Miniburst Rates
Cosmic microwave background constraints on secret interactions among sterile neutrinos
11:30 am, Friday, Mar 31st in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos: A New Neutrino Floor for Dark Matter Searches
Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos and the Sensitivity Floor for Solar Dark Matter Annihilation Searches
The Galactic Contribution to IceCube's Astrophysical Neutrino Flux
Constrain the Dark Matter Electron Cross Section from Pulsating White Dwarfs
Detection prospects for the Cosmic Neutrino Background using laser interferometers
11:30 am, Friday, Mar 24th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Global constraints on absolute neutrino masses and their ordering
Probing the Extragalactic Cosmic Rays origin with gamma-ray and neutrino backgrounds
A new astrophysical solution to the Too Big To Fail problem - Insights from the MoRIA simulations
Producing the Deuteron in Stars: Anthropic Limits on Fundamental Constants
The Waning of the WIMP? A Review of Models, Searches, and Constraints
11:30 am, Friday, Mar 10th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
HAWC Observations Strongly Favor Pulsar Interpretations of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Excess
Constraints on warm dark matter from the ionization history of the Universe
The Gamma-Ray Puzzle in Cygnus X: Implications for High-Energy Neutrinos
New Constraints and Prospects for sub-GeV Dark Matter Scattering off Electrons in Xenon
The influence of the observatory latitude on the study of ultra high energy cosmic rays
Prospects for indirect dark matter searches with MeV photons
Search for Very High Energy Gamma Rays from the Northern Fermi Bubble Region with HAWC
11:30 am, Friday, Mar 3rd in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
The Dark Side of MSW: Solar Neutrinos as a Probe of Dark Matter-Neutrino Interactions
Offsets between member galaxies and dark matter in clusters: a test with the Illustris simulation
Constraints on the flux of ∼(10^16−10^17.5) eV cosmic photons from the EAS-MSU muon data
Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with five years of the ANTARES detector data
Testing Lorentz invariance of dark matter with satellite galaxies
HAWC Observations Strongly Favor Pulsar Interpretations of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Excess
Why T2K should run in dominant neutrino mode to discover CP violation ?
11:30 am, Friday, Feb 24th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Extending the search for muon neutrinos coincident with gamma-ray bursts in IceCube data
New constraints and discovery potential of sub-GeV dark matter with xenon detectors
Distinguishing between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos in the presence of general interactions
Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet
Search for right-handed neutrinos from dark matter annihilation with gamma-rays
11:30 am, Friday, Feb 17th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Dark Matter "Transporting" Mechanism Explaining Positron Excesses
Six-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae with Full Boltzmann Neutrino Transport
A supernova at 50 pc: Effects on the Earth's atmosphere and biota
New Physics and Atmospheric Neutrino Trident Production with PINGU and ORCA
11:30 am, Friday, Feb 10th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Dark matter in the Sun: scattering off electrons vs nucleons
High-energy cosmic ray production by a neutron star falling into a black hole
11:30 am, Friday, Feb 3rd in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Secondary Cosmic Positrons in an Inhomogeneous Diffusion Model
for the 3.5 keV Line in the Deep Fields with Chandra: the 10 Ms observations
Closing in on Resonantly Produced Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter
First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO
Probing Left-Right Seesaw using Beam Polarization at an e+e− Collider
Unveiling ν secrets with cosmological data: neutrino masses and mass hierarchy
Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray nuclei from remnants of dead quasars
11:30 am, Friday, Jan 27th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Special Talk!
Speaker: Oindree Banerjee (OSU)
Evidence for the Stochastic Acceleration of Secondary Antiprotons by Supernova Remnants
Probing sub-GeV dark sectors via high energy proton beams at LBNF/DUNE and MiniBooNE
On Integral Upper Limits Assuming Power Law Spectra and the Sensitivity in High-Energy Astronomy
An Alternative Method of Determining the Neutrino Mass Ordering in Reactor Neutrino Experiments
Astrophysical interpretation of the anisotropies in the unresolved gamma-ray background
Can we observe neutrino flares in coincidence with explosive transients?
Northern sky Galactic Cosmic Ray anisotropy between 10-1000 TeV with the Tibet Air Shower Array
11:30 am, Friday, Jan 20th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Special Talk!
Speaker: Evan Grohs (U. of Michigan)
Title: Big bang nucleosynthesis in neutrino cosmology
Abstract:
Cosmic microwave background Stage-IV experiments and thirty-meter-class telescopes will come online in the next decade. The convolution of these data sets will provide on order 1% precision for observables related to neutrino cosmology. Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics could manifest itself in slight deviations from the standard predictions of quantities such as the neutrino energy density and the primordial abundances from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). In this talk, I will argue for the need for precise and accurate numerical calculations of BBN. I will first show the detailed evolution of the neutrino spectra as they go out of equilibrium with the plasma. The spectra are important in changing the ratio of neutrons to protons. I will show how sensitive the primordial mass fraction of helium is to the weak interaction rates which evolve the neutron-to-proton ratio. Finally, I will present an example of how BSM physics can affect BBN by instituting an asymmetry between neutrinos and antineutrinos, commonly characterized by a lepton number.
Evidence for the Stochastic Acceleration of Secondary Antiprotons by Supernova Remnants
Dark Photons from Captured Inelastic Dark Matter Annihilation: Charged Particle Signatures
A test for skewed distributions of dark matter and a detection in galaxy cluster Abell 3827
New astrophysical bounds on ultralight axionlike particles (ULALPs)
Neutrino Fluxes from a Core-Collapse Supernova in a Model with Three Sterile Neutrinos
Testing the young neutron star scenario with persistent radio emission associated with FRB 121102
11:30 am, Friday, Jan 13th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Low Mass X-Ray Binaries in the Inner Galaxy: Implications for Millisecond Pulsars and the GeV Excess
Circular polarisation: a new probe of dark matter and neutrinos in the sky
Search for Electronic Recoil Event Rate Modulation with 4 Years of XENON100 Data
Observation of the Crab Nebula with the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory
Neutrino oscillations have first been observed almost 20 years ago, yet some fundamental parameters of the oscillation mechanism still need precise measurements. Do muon and tau neutrinos maximally mix? What is the neutrino mass ordering, normal or inverted? Is there CP violation in the lepton sector, and could this explain the matter/anti-matter asymmetry in the universe?
12:30 pm, Friday, Sep 22nd in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Determining Dark Matter properties with a XENONnT/LZ signal and LHC-Run3 mono-jet searches
e+ and p¯ production in pp collisions and the cosmic-ray e+/p¯ flux ratio
Study of the PeV Neutrino, γ-rays and UHECRs around The Lobes of Centaurus A
Constraining the Mass and Radius of Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters
Observations of a large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays above 8e18 eV
12:30 pm, Friday, Sep 15th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
The Galactic Isotropic γ-ray Background and Implications for Dark Matter
Ultra-Low Energy Calibration of LUX Detector using 127Xe Electron Capture
On the Prospects for Detecting a Net Photon Circular Polarization Produced by Decaying Dark Matter
Disrupted Globular Clusters and the Gamma-Ray Excess in the Galactic Centre
12:30 pm, Friday, Sep 8th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Impact of Beyond the Standard Model Physics in the Detection of the Cosmic Neutrino Background
Neutrinos from beta processes in a presupernova: probing the isotopic evolution of a massive star
Search for Bosonic Super-WIMP Interactions with the XENON100 Experiment
Improved measurement of 8B solar neutrinos with 1.5 kt y of Borexino exposure
LOFAR discovery of the fastest-spinning millisecond pulsar in the Galactic field
Electron-Capture Isotopes could Constrain Cosmic-Ray Propagation Models
12:30 pm, Friday, Sep 1st in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Results from the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment at Soudan
Search for gamma-ray emission from super-luminous supernovae with the Fermi-LAT
Neutrino Spectra from Nuclear Weak Interactions in sd-Shell Nuclei Under Astrophysical Conditions
Impact of Beyond the Standard Model Physics in the Detection of the Cosmic Neutrino Background
Neutrino luminosities and heat capacities of neutron stars in analytic form
11:30 am, Friday, Aug 25th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Sensitivity for tau neutrinos at PeV energies and beyond with the MAGIC telescopes
An unusual white dwarf star may be a surviving remnant of a subluminous Type Ia supernova
General-Relativistic Simulations of Four States of Accretion onto Millisecond Pulsars
Strongly lensed repeating Fast Radio Bursts precisely probe the universe
Explore the Inelastic Frontier with 79.6-day of PandaX-II Data
Search for axion-like dark matter through nuclear spin precession in electric and magnetic fields
11:30 am, Friday, Aug 18th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Direct Detection of MeV-scale Dark Matter via Solar Reflection
Dark matter dynamics in Abell 3827: new data consistent with standard Cold Dark Matter
An algorithm for the reconstruction of neutrino-induced showers in the ANTARES neutrino telescope
XMM-Newton observations of the non-thermal supernova remnant HESS J1731-347 (G353.6-0.7)
Intrinsic backgrounds from Rn and Kr in the XENON100 experiment
Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
11:30 am, Friday, Aug 4th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Molecular Clouds as the Origin of the Fermi Gamma-Ray GeV-Excess
Measuring the neutron star compactness and binding energy with supernova neutrinos
Search for solar Kaluza-Klein axion by annual modulation with the XMASS-I detector
11:30 am, Friday, Jul 28th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
AGILE detection of a candidate gamma-ray precursor to the ICECUBE-160731 neutrino event
First results from the DEAP-3600 dark matter search with argon at SNOLAB
Limits on Axion Couplings from the First 79.8-Day Data of the PandaX-II Experiment
Results on MeV-scale dark matter from a gram-scale cryogenic calorimeter operated above ground
On the Possibility of Fast Radio Bursts from Inside Supernovae: The Case of SN 1986J
Solar and nuclear physics uncertainties in cosmic-ray propagation
Production and acceleration of antinuclei in supernova shockwaves
Astrophysical neutrinos flavored with Beyond the Standard Model physics
11:30 am, Friday, Jul 14th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Constraints on Galactic Neutrino Emission with Seven Years of IceCube Data
All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data
A cut-off in the TeV gamma-ray spectrum of the SNR Cassiopeia A
The first all-sky view of the Milky Way stellar halo with Gaia+2MASS RR Lyrae
11:30 am, Friday, Jul 7th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Dark matter under the microscope: Constraining compact dark matter with caustic crossing events
Robustness of dark matter constraints and interplay with collider searches for New Physics
A lepto-hadronic model of gamma rays from the Eta Carinae and prospects for neutrino telescopes
11:30 am, Friday, Jun 30th in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Evidence of internal dissipation origin for the high energy prompt emission of GRB~170214A
Traces of highest energy astrophysical muon and tau neutrinos in the Moon shadow
High-Energy Gamma Rays and Neutrinos from Nearby Radio Galaxies
11:30 am, Friday, Jun 23rd in PRB M2005 (Price Place)
Special Talk!
Speaker: Linda Cremonesi (University College London)
Title: The secrets of oscillating neutrinos at the NOvA experiment
Abstract: