English

$g$-mode oscillations of dark matter admixed neutron stars

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-12-03 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate gg-mode oscillations in dark matter admixed neutron stars employing a relativistic mean field model to describe hadronic matter and a model for self-interacting fermionic dark matter motivated by the neutron decay anomaly. Following the construction of such admixed configurations, we derive the equilibrium and adiabatic speeds of sound therein, leading to a computation of the star's gg-mode spectrum in the Cowling approximation. In particular, we explore the effect of dark matter self-interaction, the nucleon effective mass and dark matter fraction on the principal gg-mode frequency, and its first overtone. We show that the effect on gg-mode frequency depends predominantly on the dark matter fraction, and demonstrate an equation of state-independent constraint for the latter. Prospects of identifying the presence of dark matter in neutron stars using gg-mode are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2506.18892,
  title  = {$g$-mode oscillations of dark matter admixed neutron stars},
  author = {Swarnim Shirke and Debarati Chatterjee and Prashanth Jaikumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.18892},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

13 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables. Accepted version. Accepted for publication in MNRAS