I was interviewed by Alessandra Saletti, head of the University of Trento’s Press Office and External Relations, on our paper on fifth forces and Bennu in Communications Physics. The piece appeared in UniTrentoMag, the University of Trento’s online magazine, and is available both in Italian and English, at the links below:
mag.unitn.it/ricerca/121147/polvere-di-asteroidi-sulle-tracce-della-quinta-forza
mag.unitn.it/ricerca/121147/polvere-di-asteroidi-sulle-tracce-della-quinta-forza#English-version
Enjoy the read!
Press release for fifth forces and Bennu paper
Following the publication of our paper on fifth forces and Bennu in Communications Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory has issued a press release which you can find at the following link:
discover.lanl.gov/news/1007-near-earth-asteroid/
This has also been reposted and covered by several other news websites such as Phys.org, Sciencepost, Universe Today, Science News, and Esquire (see Altmetric):
phys.org/news/2024-10-earth-asteroid-probe-universe.html
sciencepost.fr/asteroides-pour-reveler-cinquieme-force-univers
www.universetoday.com/168882/can-an-asteroids-movements-reveal-a-new-force-in-the-universe
www.sciencenews.org/article/asteroid-bennu-dark-matter
www.esquire.com/es/ciencia/a62605060/quinta-fuerza-asteorides-cientificos
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Fifth forces and Bennu paper published in Communications Physics!
My paper with Yu-Dai Tsai, Davide Farnocchia, Marco Micheli, and Luca Visinelli, where we use OSIRIS-REx tracking data for the asteroid Bennu to set new constraints on fifth forces and ultralight dark matter (see this earlier news item), has now officially been published in Communications Physics (making this my first proper Nature publication)! The full bibliographic coordinates for the paper are Commun. Phys. 7 (2024) 311. Here is the link to the paper (which is published Open Access).
Fifth forces and Bennu paper accepted in Communications Physics!
Very happy to report that my paper with Yu-Dai Tsai, Davide Farnocchia, Marco Micheli, and Luca Visinelli, where we use OSIRIS-REx tracking data for the asteroid Bennu to set new constraints on fifth forces and ultralight dark matter (see this earlier news item), has officially been accepted for publication in the prestigious Communications Physics, part of the Nature Portfolio collection of journals (it is my second time publishing in Nature journals after my 2020 book review in Nature Astronomy, but only the first time publishing a proper original scientific article)! It was quite a long journey, with a couple of rounds of revision on both the scientific and editorial sides, although overall there were no major changes to our results which, if anything, have been clarified better. You can read the preprint version of the paper on arXiv: 2309.13106.
