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Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

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Dr Harry Desmond

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Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Particle astrophysics & cosmology

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
harry.desmond@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865(2)83019
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I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth.

My research revolves around galaxy dynamics, morphology and phenomenology. I use these to learn about modified gravity and dark matter, on the one hand, and the galaxy-halo connection and galaxy formation on the other. In particular, among the questions that interest me are the following: What are the galaxy-scale consequences of theories beyond the standard models of particle physics and cosmology? Can galaxies afford tests of General Relativity that are competitive and/or complementary to others? What are the correlations between galaxy and halo properties beyond the stellar mass--halo mass relation, and how best to infer these? Is standard galaxy formation in LCDM consistent with galaxies' dynamical scaling relations?

CV

Research interests

Galaxies
Gravity
Dark matter
Cosmology

Selected publications

Galaxy morphology rules out astrophysically relevant Hu-Sawicki f (R) gravity

Physical Review D American Physical Society 102:10 (2020) 104060
Pedro Ferreira, Harry Desmond

Local resolution of the Hubble tension: The impact of screened fifth forces on the cosmic distance ladder

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 100:4 (2019) 043537
Harry Desmond, Bhuvnesh Jain, Jeremy Sakstein

Testing self-interacting dark matter with galaxy warps

Physical Review D American Physical Society 100:12 (2019) 123006
K Pardo, H Desmond, Pedro Ferreira

A statistical investigation of the mass discrepancy–acceleration relation

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 464:4 (2016) 4160-4175
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