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Can the GW190814 secondary component be a bosonic dark matter admixed compact star?

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-12-22 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate whether the recently observed 2.6 MM_\odot compact object in the gravitational-wave event GW190814 can be a bosonic dark matter admixed compact star. By considering the three constraints in mass, radius and stability of such an object, we find that if the dark matter is made of QCD axions, their particle mass mm is constrained to a range that has already been ruled out by the independent constraint imposed by the stellar-mass black hole superradiance process. The 2.6 MM_\odot object can still be a neutron star admixed with at least 2.0 MM_\odot of dark matter made of axion-like particles (or even a pure axion-like particle star) if 2×10112 \times 10^{-11} eV m2.4×1011\leq m \leq 2.4 \times 10^{-11} eV (2.9×10112.9 \times 10^{-11} eV m3.2×1011\leq m \leq 3.2 \times 10^{-11} eV) and with decay constant f8×1017f \geq 8 \times 10^{17} GeV.

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@article{arxiv.2110.05538,
  title  = {Can the GW190814 secondary component be a bosonic dark matter admixed compact star?},
  author = {Billy K. K. Lee and Ming-chung Chu and Lap-Ming Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05538},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ