eprintid: 35613
rev_number: 14
eprint_status: archive
userid: 8559
dir: disk0/00/03/56/13
datestamp: 2024-11-26 08:55:54
lastmod: 2024-11-26 13:38:58
status_changed: 2024-11-26 08:55:54
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Fell, Shaun David Brocus
title: Celestial Beacons: How Black Holes Illuminate the Path to Vector Dark Matter
subjects: ddc-530
divisions: i-130300
adv_faculty: af-13
cterms_swd: physics
cterms_swd: dark matter
cterms_swd: black holes
abstract: 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
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00035613
ppn_swb: 1909566039
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-356136
date_accepted: 2024-11-11
advisor: HASH(0x55e83b01cf80)
language: eng
bibsort: CELESTIALB20241119
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Fell, Shaun David Brocus  (2024) Celestial Beacons: How Black Holes Illuminate the Path to Vector Dark Matter.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/35613/1/dissertation.pdf