Can Neutron stars constrain Dark Matter?
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2014-11-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We argue that observations of old neutron stars can impose constraints on dark matter candidates even with very small elastic or inelastic cross section, and self-annihilation cross section. We find that old neutron stars close to the galactic center or in globular clusters can maintain a surface temperature that could in principle be detected. Due to their compactness, neutron stars can acrete WIMPs efficiently even if the WIMP-to-nucleon cross section obeys the current limits from direct dark matter searches, and therefore they could constrain a wide range of dark matter candidates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1004.0586,
title = {Can Neutron stars constrain Dark Matter?},
author = {Chris Kouvaris and Peter Tinyakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0586},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
20 pages, 5 figures