From pradyumna.sadhu at email.ucr.edu Thu Aug 6 10:36:39 2026 From: pradyumna.sadhu at email.ucr.edu (Pradyumna Sadhu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 10:36:39 -0700 Subject: [Physics-grads-open] [all-ucr] Astro Seminar on 08/06 at 11am by Utkarsh Bhura (KCL) | Physics Reading Room | In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Good morning everyone, Gentle reminder for the seminar in ~ 20 minutes in the Physics Reading room See you there! Best, Prady On Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 7:30?PM Pradyumna Sadhu wrote: > Dear all, > > Please join us for a special seminar next *Thursday 08/06 at 11am in the > Reading Room*. We will have a visitor: Utkarsh Bhura from King's College, > London. Please find the title and the abstract attached below. Hope to see > you all there! > > Prady > > ============ > > Title: > Forecasting Axion signals in the Milky Way > > Abstract: > Axions are among the leading candidates for dark matter and may convert > into radio emission in neutron-star magnetospheres. We present sensitivity > forecasts for detecting this signal with a 5-m radio telescope at Fan > Mountain Observatory operating over 0.5?4 GHz (UHF, L, and S bands). > Assuming the standard halo model, a three-year observing campaign probes > previously unexplored parameter space for axion-like particles and improves > the sensitivity of neutron-star radio searches by more than an order of > magnitude. We describe the neutron-star population model, telescope noise > model, and observing strategy used to obtain these forecasts. Initial UHF > and L-band observations (0.5?2 GHz) serve as the pathfinder phase of the > Axion Search with Telescope for Radio Astronomy (ASTRA), laying the > groundwork for a broader experimental program. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: