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Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

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CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2022-2024

Gravity & the Extreme Universe

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Yacine Ali-Haïmoud’s research aims to understand the nature of dark matter, which permeates the Universe, and remains an unsolved mystery. He seeks out hints about what kind of new particle dark matter might be by studying imprints it may leave in the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation emitted when the Universe was only 400,000 years old. Dark matter could also be made of black holes, and Ali-Haïmoud studies how gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime, may test this hypothesis.

Awards

  • Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, American Astronomical Society, 2018

Relevant Publications

  • Ali-Haïmoud, Y. (2021). Testing dark matter interactions with CMB spectral distortions. Phys. Rev. D 103, 043541. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.043541
  • Ali-Haïmoud, Y., Smith, T. L. & Mingarelli, C. M. F. (2021). Insights into searches for anisotropies in the nanohertz gravitational-wave background. Phys. Rev. D 103, 042009. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.042009
  • Ali-Haïmoud, Y. & Kamionkowski, M. (2017). Cosmic microwave background limits on accreting primordial black holes. Phys. Rev. D 95, 043534. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.043534

Institution

New York University

Department

Department of Physics

Education

  • PhD (Astrophysics), California Institute of Technology

Country

United States

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