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Possible evidence of QCD axion stars in HSC and OGLE microlensing events

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-04-10 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Dark matter in the form of axions is expected to form miniclusters, and their dense regions can harbor compact axion stars. Such axion stars could be discovered by microlensing events. In particular, some candidate events reported by Subaru HSC and OGLE can be explained simultaneously if the axion stars with masses of the order of the Earth mass make up about 27013+7\sim27^{+7}_{013} percent of dark matter. For QCD axions, this corresponds to the axion mass in the range 10910610^{-9}-10^{-6} eV, which is consistent with the experimental constraints, as well as the cosmological anthropic window of parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2108.03063,
  title  = {Possible evidence of QCD axion stars in HSC and OGLE microlensing events},
  author = {Sunao Sugiyama and Masahiro Takada and Alexander Kusenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03063},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures; latest version for the publication in Physics Letters B