Ali İhsan Kılıç

A Sensitivity Interface between Dark-Matter Perturbations and Pycnonuclear Burning in Ultramassive White Dwarfs

Pycnonuclear burning in ultramassive white dwarfs is governed by quantum tunneling and is therefore unusually sensitive to small changes in the dense stellar environment. Rather than asking whether dark matter immediately explains a cooling anomaly, we address a more controlled q...