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

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.

Exhaustive symbolic regression

Bartlett, D., Desmond, H., Ferreira, P.

26 May 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Inferring dark matter halo properties for Hi-selected galaxies

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

9 May 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

On the functional form of the radial acceleration relation

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

1 May 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521, 2, p. 1817-1831, 15p.

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