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Detecting Axion Dark Matter through the Radio Signal from Omega Centauri

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-11-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

As a well-motivated dark matter candidate, axions can be detected through the axion-photon resonant conversion in the magnetospheres of magnetic white dwarf stars or neutron stars. In this work, we utilize Omega Centauri, which is the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way and is suggested to be the remnant core of a dwarf galaxy, to probe the axion dark matter through radio signals that originate from all the neutron stars and magnetic white dwarf stars in it. With 100 hours of observation, the combination of SKA phase 1 and LOFAR can effectively probe the parameter space of the axion-photon coupling gaγg_{a\gamma} up to 10141015 GeV110^{-14}\sim 10^{-15}~\text{GeV}^{-1} for the axion mass range of 0.130 μeV0.1\sim 30 ~\mu\text{eV}. Depending on the choice of neutron star evolution model, this limitation is two or three and a half orders of magnitude higher than that of the single neutron star or magnetic white dwarf.

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@article{arxiv.2109.00877,
  title  = {Detecting Axion Dark Matter through the Radio Signal from Omega Centauri},
  author = {Jin-Wei Wang and Xiao-Jun Bi and Peng-Fei Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00877},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

22 pages, 8 figs, and 2 tables; Phys Rev D accepted version