New Approaches to Uncover Dark Matter in the post-WIMP Era

Project Information

UnDark

Grant agreement ID: 864035

DOI

10.3030/864035

Project closed

EC signature date 30 January 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

Initial version of DMP will be provided.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (30)

Novel Constraints on Axions Produced in Pulsar Polar-Cap Cascades

Author(s): Dion Noordhuis, Anirudh Prabhu, Samuel J. Witte, Alexander Y. Chen, Fábio Cruz, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue Vol 131, 2023, Page(s) 111004, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.111004

SICRET: Supernova Ia Cosmology with truncated marginal neural Ratio EsTimation

Author(s): Konstantin Karchev, Roberto Trotta, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Vol 502, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 1056-1072, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3785

Efficient gravitational wave template bank generation with differentiable waveforms

Author(s): Adam Coogan, Thomas D. P. Edwards, Horng Sheng Chia, Richard N. George, Katherine Freese, Cody Messick, Christian N. Setzer, Christoph Weniger, Aaron Zimmerman
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 106, 2022, Page(s) 122001, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.122001

Minihalos as probes of the inflationary spectrum: accurate boost factor calculation and new CMB constraints

Author(s): Guillermo Franco Abellán, Gaétan Facchinetti
Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 032, ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/06/032

swyft: Truncated Marginal Neural Ratio Estimation in Python

Author(s): Benjamin Kurt Miller, Alex Cole, Christoph Weniger, Francesco Nattino, Ou Ku, Meiert W. Grootes
Published in: Journal of Open Source Software, Issue 7(75), 2023, Page(s) 4205, ISSN 2475-9066
Publisher: JOSS
DOI: 10.21105/joss.04205

Estimating the warm dark matter mass from strong lensing images with truncated marginal neural ratio estimation

Author(s): Noemi Anau Montel, Adam Coogan, Camila Correa, Konstantin Karchev, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 518, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 2746–2760, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3215

Tests for model misspecification in simulation-based inference: From local distortions to global model checks

Author(s): Noemi Anau Montel, James Alvey, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 111, 2025, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.111.083013

Numerical analysis of resonant axion-photon mixing

Author(s): Estanis Utrilla Ginés, Dion Noordhuis, Christoph Weniger, Samuel J. Witte
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 110, 2024, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.083007

Revisiting constraints on WIMPs around primordial black holes

Author(s): Estanis Utrilla Ginés, Olga Mena, Samuel J. Witte
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 106, 2022, Page(s) 063538, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.063538

Probing early modification of gravity with Planck, ACT and SPT

Author(s): Guillermo Franco Abellán, Matteo Braglia, Mario Ballardini, Fabio Finelli, Vivian Poulin
Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 017, ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/12/017

Simulation-based inference for stochastic gravitational wave background data analysis

Author(s): James Alvey, Uddipta Bhardwaj, Valerie Domcke, Mauro Pieroni, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 109, 2024, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.109.083008

TangoSIDM: tantalizing models of self-interacting dark matter

Author(s): Camila A Correa, Matthieu Schaller, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Noemi Anau Montel, Christoph Weniger, Shin’ichiro Ando
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 517, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 3045–3063, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2830

SIDE-real: Supernova Ia Dust Extinction with truncated marginal neural ratio estimation applied to real data

Author(s): Konstantin Karchev, Matthew Grayling, Benjamin M Boyd, Roberto Trotta, Kaisey S Mandel, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 530, 2024, Page(s) 3881-3896, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae995

Scalable inference with autoregressive neural ratio estimation

Author(s): Noemi Anau Montel, James Alvey, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 530, 2024, Page(s) 4107-4124, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1130

Extraterrestrial Axion Search with the Breakthrough Listen Galactic Center Survey

Author(s): Joshua W. Foster, Samuel J. Witte, Matthew Lawson, Tim Linden, Vishal Gajjar, Christoph Weniger, and Benjamin R. Safdi
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue Vol. 129, Iss. 25, 2022, Page(s) 251102, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.251102

Sequential simulation-based inference for gravitational wave signals

Author(s): Uddipta Bhardwaj, James Alvey, Benjamin Kurt Miller, Samaya Nissanke, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 108, 2023, Page(s) 042004, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.108.042004

Axion Clouds around Neutron Stars

Author(s): Dion Noordhuis, Anirudh Prabhu, Christoph Weniger, Samuel J. Witte
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.14.041015

Fast and credible likelihood-free cosmology with truncated marginal neural ratio estimation

Author(s): Alex Cole, Benjamin Kurt Miller, Samuel J. Witte, Maxwell X. Cai, Meiert W. Grootes, Francesco Nattino, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022, ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/09/004

Precision CMB constraints on eV-scale bosons coupled to neutrinos

Author(s): Stefan Sandner, Miguel Escudero, Samuel J. Witte
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 83, 2023, ISSN 1434-6052
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11864-6

Albatross: a scalable simulation-based inference pipeline for analysing stellar streams in the Milky Way

Author(s): James Alvey, Mathis Gerdes, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 525, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 3662-3681, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2458

Comparative analysis of interacting stepped dark radiation

Author(s): Nils Schöneberg, Guillermo Franco Abellán, Théo Simon, Alexa Bartlett, Yashvi Patel, Tristan L. Smith
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 108, 2024, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.108.123513

The effect of the perturber population on subhalo measurements in strong gravitational lenses

Author(s): Adam Coogan, Noemi Anau Montel, Konstantin Karchev, Meiert W. Grootes, Francesco Nattino, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Vol 527, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 66-78, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2925

Sledgehamr: Simulating Scalar Fields with Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Author(s): Malte Buschmann
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 979, 2025, Page(s) 220, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9ea2

Fast likelihood-free inference in the LSS Stage IV era

Author(s): Guillermo Franco-Abellán, Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera, Matteo Martinelli, Oleg Savchenko, Davide Sciotti, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 2024, 2024, Page(s) 057, ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/11/057

Cosmological dynamics of string theory axion strings

Author(s): Joshua N. Benabou, Quentin Bonnefoy, Malte Buschmann, Soubhik Kumar, Benjamin R. Safdi
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 110, 2024, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.035021

Constraining the X-ray heating and reionization using 21-cm power spectra with Marginal Neural Ratio Estimation

Author(s): Anchal Saxena, Alex Cole, Simon Gazagnes, P. Daniel Meerburg, Christoph Weniger, Samuel J. Witte
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 525, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 6097-6111, ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2659

Axion-Photon Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres: The Role of the Plasma in the Goldreich-Julian Model

Author(s): Samuel J. Witte, Dion Noordhuis, Thomas D. P. Edwards, Christoph Weniger
Published in: Physical Review D, 2021, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: APS physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.104.103030

Simulation-based inference of the sky-averaged 21-cm signal from CD-EoR with REACH

Author(s): Anchal Saxena, P Daniel Meerburg, Christoph Weniger, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Will Handley
Published in: RAS Techniques and Instruments, Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) 724-736, ISSN 2752-8200
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/rasti/rzae047

Transient Radio Lines from Axion Miniclusters and Axion Stars

Author(s): Samuel J. Witte; Sebastian Baum; Matthew Lawson; M. C. David Marsh; Alexander J. Millar; Gustavo Salinas
Published in: Physical Review D, 2022, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physics Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.08079

Generalized ray tracing for axions in astrophysical plasmas

Author(s): J. I. McDonald, S. J. Witte
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 108, 2023, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.108.103021

Conference proceedings (5)

Bayesian Simulation-based Inference for Cosmological Initial Conditions

Author(s): Florian List, Noemi Anau Montel, Christoph Weniger
Published in: NeurIPS 2023 workshop Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences, 2023
Publisher: NeurIPS 2022 workshop Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.19910

Detection is truncation: studying source populations with truncated marginal neural ratio estimation

Author(s): Noemi Anau Montel, Christoph Weniger
Published in: NeurIPS 2022 workshop Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences, 2022
Publisher: NeurIPS 2022 workshop Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.04291

Contrastive Neural Ratio Estimation

Author(s): Benjamin Kurt Miller, Christoph Weniger, Patrick Forré
Published in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
Publisher: Curran Associates
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2210.06170

Strong-Lensing Source Reconstruction with Denoising Diffusion Restoration Models

Author(s): Konstantin Karchev, Noemi Anau Montel, Adam Coogan, Christoph Weniger
Published in: NeurIPS 2022 workshop Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences, 2022
Publisher: NeurIPS 2022 workshop Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.04365

Truncated Marginal Neural Ratio Estimation

Author(s): Miller, Benjamin Kurt; Cole, Alex; Forré, Patrick; Louppe, Gilles; Weniger, Christoph
Published in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021
Publisher: Curran Associates
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.01214