Speaker
Dr
Dina Traykova
(MPI for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Potsdam)
Description
A promising way to study the properties and behaviour of dark matter on small scales is through the effects it may have on binary mergers. In particular, its presence around black holes may lead to a distinctive dephasing of the signal due to dynamical friction. In this talk I will present how we calculate this force numerically and discuss how our findings extend some already existing analytic results to the relativistic regime, where this effect can become detectable.
