title: Celestial Beacons: How Black Holes Illuminate the Path to Vector Dark Matter
creator: Fell, Shaun David Brocus
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
description: The inception of gravitational wave astronomy has plunged astrophysical sciences into a new era.  Gravitational wave signals sourced by strong gravity regimes provide enormous information about  the surrounding environments from which they came. This allows remarkably powerful studies to  be performed regarding the fundamental nature of gravity, dark energy, and dark matter. These  current and future studies require very high accuracy and precision in the physical models they  develop in order to extract all potential information from observed data. In particular, due to the  feeble coupling between matter and gravity, very strong gravitational environments provide the  highest quality of information regarding surrounding fundamental fields. To that end, the primary  objective of this thesis is to generate models of dark matter interacting with highly dynamical black  hole systems and forecast potential observability using upcoming gravitational wave observatories.  Several studies and tools were developed to further this goal, culminating in new numerical relativ-  ity toolkits, parameter constraints, and theoretical results. While much more work still needs to be  done to fully leverage the prowess of upcoming gravitational wave observatories, the work in this  thesis provides great advancements and powerful tools in the pursuit of understanding the funda-  mental building blocks of the universe.
date: 2024
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/35613/1/dissertation.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00035613
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-356136
identifier:   Fell, Shaun David Brocus  (2024) Celestial Beacons: How Black Holes Illuminate the Path to Vector Dark Matter.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/35613/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng