Aravind Natarajan               anatarajan(AT)physik.uni-bielefeld.de 

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Particle Physics and Cosmology group of Professor Dominik Schwarz at Universität Bielefeld in Germany. I received my Ph.D from the Department of Physics, University of Florida in August 2007. My thesis advisor was Professor Pierre Sikivie. My research interests include dark matter caustics, dark matter detection, and the effects of dark matter annihilation on stars and the epoch of reionization.

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]       

Cosmo '08 U.Wisconsin, Madison [PDF]                                                

          
Publications:

Dark matter annihilation and Primordial star formation.
     Aravind Natarajan, Jonathan C. Tan and Brian W. O'Shea; arXiv:0807.3769 [astro-ph] (2008)

The effect of early dark matter halos on reionization.
     Aravind Natarajan and Dominik J. Schwarz; arXiv:0805.3945 [astro-ph] (2008)

Further look at particle annihilation in dark matter caustics.
     Aravind Natarajan and Pierre Sikivie; Phys. Rev. D77, 043531 (2008)

Does the second caustic ring of dark matter cause the Monoceros ring of stars?
     Aravind Natarajan and Pierre Sikivie; Phys. Rev. D76, 023505 (2007)

Weakly interacting massive particle annihilation in caustics.
     Aravind Natarajan; Phys. Rev. D75, 123514 (2007)

Inner caustics of cold dark matter halos.  
     Aravind Natarajan and Pierre Sikivie; Phys. Rev. D73, 023510 (2006)

Robustness of discrete flows and caustics in cold dark matter cosmology.
     Aravind Natarajan and Pierre Sikivie; Phys. Rev. D72, 083513 (2005)

Role of the Cesium Antimonide layer in the Na₂KSb/Cs₃Sb photocathode.
     Aravind Natarajan, A.T. Kalghatgi, B.M. Bhat, and M.Satyam;  J. App. Phys., 90, 6434 (2001)