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Neutrino signals from Neutron Star implosions to Black Holes

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-12-12 v1

Abstract

We calculate the neutrino luminosity in an astrophysical scenario where dark matter is captured by a neutron star which eventually implodes to form a low mass black hole. The Trojan horse scenario involves the collapse of a neutron star (NS) due to the accumulation of a critical amount of dark matter (DM) during its lifetime. As a result, a central disk forms out of the ejected material with a finite radial extension, density, temperature, and lepton fraction, producing fainter neutrino luminosities and colder associated spectra than found in a regular core-collapse supernova. The emitted gravitational wave (GW) signal from the imploding NS should be detectable at ultra-high 0.1\gtrsim 0.1 GHz frequencies.

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@article{arxiv.2304.06746,
  title  = {Neutrino signals from Neutron Star implosions to Black Holes},
  author = {Yossef Zenati and C. Albertus and M. Ángeles Pérez-García and Joseph Silk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06746},
  year   = {2025}
}

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