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Quark stars admixed with dark matter

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-04-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Compact stars consisting of massless quark matter and fermionic dark matter are studied by solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for two fluids separately. Dark matter is further investigated by incorporating inter-fermionic interactions among the dark matter particles. The properties of stars made of quark matter particles and self-interacting and free dark matter particles are explored by obtaining their mass-radius relations. The regions of stability for such a compact star are determined and it is demonstrated that the maximum stable total mass of such a star decreases approximately linearly with increasing dark matter fraction.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00238,
  title  = {Quark stars admixed with dark matter},
  author = {Payel Mukhopadhyay and Juregen Schaffner-Bielich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00238},
  year   = {2016}
}