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.