B. Thakore

Wave-Optics Imprints of Warm Dark Matter Subhalos with Prompt Cusps on Strongly Lensed Gravitational Waves

Dark matter halos are expected to form with a prompt $\rho \propto r^{-3/2}$ density cusp at their centres, and in warm dark matter (WDM) cosmologies these cusps can dominate the inner structure of the low-mass subhalos that survive free-streaming suppression. We investigate whether that inner structure is visible to g...