Harry Flexner Desmond Portrait

Dr Harry Desmond

Biography

I joined the ICG as a Senior Research Fellow in January 2022, supported by a Royal Society URF. Before that I was a McWilliams Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, and before that a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. I obtained my PhD from Stanford University in 2017.

Research interests

I am interested primarily in developing new tests of the standard model of cosmology (gravity and/or dark sector physics) using astrophysical objects, mainly galaxies and stars. My work ranges from pure theory, through N-body and hydrodynamical simulations to statistical data analysis. I am also interested in galaxy formation and how best to characterise the relation between galaxies and their host dark matter halos.

Research outputs

2024

Evaluating the variance of individual halo properties in constrained cosmological simulations

Desmond, H., Devriendt, J., Slyz, A., Stiskalek, R.

1 Nov 2024, In: MNRAS. 534, 4, 13p.

No evidence for anisotropy in galaxy spin directions

Desmond, H., Patel, D.

3 Oct 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534, 2, p. 1553–1560, 8p.

Testing screened modified gravity with SDSS-IV-MaNGA

Desmond, H., Koyama, K., Landim, R. G., Penny, S.

1 Oct 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534, 1, p. 349–360

SYREN-HALOFIT: A fast, interpretable, high-precision formula for the ΛCDM nonlinear matter power spectrum

Bartlett, D. J., Desmond, H., Ferreira, P. G., Wandelt, B. D., Zennaro, M.

5 Jun 2024, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 686, 11p., A150

A precise symbolic emulator of the linear matter power spectrum

Alonso, D., Bartlett, D. J., Burlacu, B., Desmond, H., Ferreira, P. G., Kammerer, L., Kronberger, G., Wandelt, B. D., Zennaro, M.

1 Jun 2024, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 686, 9p., A209

On the tension between the radial acceleration relation and Solar system quadrupole in modified gravity MOND

Desmond, H., Famaey, B., Hees, A.

1 May 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530, 2, p. 1781-1795, 15p.

Optimal inflationary potentials

Bartlett, D. J., Desmond, H., Ferreira, P. G., Sousa, T.

15 Apr 2024, In: Physical Review D. 109, 8, 15p., 083524

2023

The underlying radial acceleration relation

Desmond, H.

1 Dec 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526, 3, p. 3342-3351, 10p.

The information on halo properties contained in spectroscopic observations of late-type galaxies

Desmond, H., Devriendt, J., Slyz, A., Yasin, T.

1 Nov 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525, 4, p. 5066-5079, 14p.

On the fundamentality of the radial acceleration relation for late-type galaxy dynamics

Desmond, H., Stiskalek, R.

1 Nov 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525, 4, p. 6130-6145, 16p.

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