Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

So you can have a situation where an axion is traveling over long distances through a galactic magnetic field and converts into a photon, so a little particle of light.

So you can have a situation where an axion is traveling over long distances through a galactic magnetic field and converts into a photon, so a little particle of light.

So you can have a situation where an axion is traveling over long distances through a galactic magnetic field and converts into a photon, so a little particle of light.

you can have axions going through a neutron star's magnetic field and turn into a photon. And then potentially we can see that photon. And so this is an active area of research. People also look for these kinds of interactions around white dwarfs, which are another possible outcome for a star at the end of its life. For much smaller stars. Much smaller stars, yes.

you can have axions going through a neutron star's magnetic field and turn into a photon. And then potentially we can see that photon. And so this is an active area of research. People also look for these kinds of interactions around white dwarfs, which are another possible outcome for a star at the end of its life. For much smaller stars. Much smaller stars, yes.

you can have axions going through a neutron star's magnetic field and turn into a photon. And then potentially we can see that photon. And so this is an active area of research. People also look for these kinds of interactions around white dwarfs, which are another possible outcome for a star at the end of its life. For much smaller stars. Much smaller stars, yes.

So at this point, I think the way we've been thinking about both white dwarfs and neutron stars in this kind of scenario is that it allows us to rule out axions with certain properties because we go looking for evidence that there was this phenomenon happening. And we don't see it. And so then we can say, okay, this axion with this kind of characteristic is not out there.

So at this point, I think the way we've been thinking about both white dwarfs and neutron stars in this kind of scenario is that it allows us to rule out axions with certain properties because we go looking for evidence that there was this phenomenon happening. And we don't see it. And so then we can say, okay, this axion with this kind of characteristic is not out there.

So at this point, I think the way we've been thinking about both white dwarfs and neutron stars in this kind of scenario is that it allows us to rule out axions with certain properties because we go looking for evidence that there was this phenomenon happening. And we don't see it. And so then we can say, okay, this axion with this kind of characteristic is not out there.

So one of the data sets that I've been interested in is from the Gaia Space Telescope. This was a European Space Agency mission. And what they did is they characterized the motions of stars. And they characterized the motions of a lot of stars.

So one of the data sets that I've been interested in is from the Gaia Space Telescope. This was a European Space Agency mission. And what they did is they characterized the motions of stars. And they characterized the motions of a lot of stars.

So one of the data sets that I've been interested in is from the Gaia Space Telescope. This was a European Space Agency mission. And what they did is they characterized the motions of stars. And they characterized the motions of a lot of stars.

And so this allows us to get into these questions of if there is this flash mob core thing happening and it's affecting how the stars move in a way that's unique to the axion scenario, can we look for evidence of that in the stars?

And so this allows us to get into these questions of if there is this flash mob core thing happening and it's affecting how the stars move in a way that's unique to the axion scenario, can we look for evidence of that in the stars?

And so this allows us to get into these questions of if there is this flash mob core thing happening and it's affecting how the stars move in a way that's unique to the axion scenario, can we look for evidence of that in the stars?

I mean, obviously we should find one. That would be good. So one thing I didn't talk about is that people do have these ground-based experiments. And this is actually a lot of the global investment is actually in trying to look for an axion using the exact same mechanism that that we might use to look for axions around neutron stars.

I mean, obviously we should find one. That would be good. So one thing I didn't talk about is that people do have these ground-based experiments. And this is actually a lot of the global investment is actually in trying to look for an axion using the exact same mechanism that that we might use to look for axions around neutron stars.

I mean, obviously we should find one. That would be good. So one thing I didn't talk about is that people do have these ground-based experiments. And this is actually a lot of the global investment is actually in trying to look for an axion using the exact same mechanism that that we might use to look for axions around neutron stars.

So they basically take a microwave cavity, they turn on a giant magnetic field inside of it, and then hope an axion will fly through and become a photon. And yeah, so this is the biggest type of experiment like this in the United States is the Axion dark matter experiment, which is housed at the University of Washington. But there are experiments that are similar to this around the world.

So they basically take a microwave cavity, they turn on a giant magnetic field inside of it, and then hope an axion will fly through and become a photon. And yeah, so this is the biggest type of experiment like this in the United States is the Axion dark matter experiment, which is housed at the University of Washington. But there are experiments that are similar to this around the world.