Paper Explainer: ClearPotential: Revealing Local Dark Matter in Three Dimensions

This is a paper explainer for my recent work with my graduate student Eric Putney, previous Rutgers postdoc (now at Institute of Basic Science in Korea), and my Rutgers colleague David Shih. This is the culmination of a series of papers, which I’ve written about here. The goal of this paper and the larger project is to use the collective motion of the stars near the Earth, as measured by the Gaia…