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Newly-determined mass of 1.97 $\pm$ 0.04 $M_{\odot}$ for PSR J1614-2230 has been a challenge for the neutron star with a hyperon core (namely hyperon star), since hyperons usually reduce the theoretical maximum mass of the star. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-12 A. LI

We demonstrate that the observation of neutron stars with masses greater than one solar mass places severe demands on any exotic neutron decay mode that could explain the discrepancy between beam and bottle measurements of the neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Gordon Baym , D. H. Beck , Peter Geltenbort , Jessie Shelton

In this work, we explore the possible scenario of strange stars admixed with fermionic or bosonic dark matter. For the description of the ``visible'' sector, we use a specific phenomenological quark model that takes into account in-medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Isabella Marzola , Everson H. Rodrigues , Anderson F. Coelho , Odilon Lourenço

We investigate the structure of admixed neutron stars with a regular hadronic component and a fraction of fermionic self-interacting dark matter. Using two limiting equations of state for the dense baryonic interior, constructed from…

Due to their extreme density and low temperature, neutron stars (NS) are efficient probes to unveil interactions between standard model and dark matter (DM) particles. From elastic scatterings on NS material, DM can get gravitationally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-28 Raghuveer Garani , Yoann Genolini , Thomas Hambye

The effect of dark matter (DM) on $f$-mode oscillations in DM admixed neutron stars (NSs) is investigated in a comprehensive analysis with particular attention to the role of the nuclear equation of state. Hadronic matter is modeled by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 Swarnim Shirke , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Neutron stars can accumulate asymmetric dark matter (ADM) in their interiors, which affects the neutron star's measurable properties and makes compact objects prime targets to search for ADM. In this work, we use Bayesian inference to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-05 Nathan Rutherford , Geert Raaijmakers , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Anna Watts

We consider gravitationally bound states of asymmetric dark matter (ADM stars), and the impact of ADM capture on the stability of neutron stars. We derive and interpret the equation of state for ADM with both attractive and repulsive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Moira I. Gresham , Kathryn M. Zurek

It is possible for asymmetric dark matter (ADM) to accumulate in neutron star interiors and affect their global properties. Considering the effects of this accumulation, neutron star mass-radius measurements can deliver new insights into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Nathan Rutherford , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Anna Watts

We study an impact of asymmetric dark matter on properties of the neutron stars and their ability to reach the two solar masses limit, which allows us to present a new range of masses of dark matter particles and their fractions inside the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 O. Ivanytskyi , V. Sagun , I. Lopes

We investigate the impact of asymmetric fermionic dark matter (DM) on the thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs), considering a scenario where DM interacts with baryonic matter (BM) through gravity. Employing the two-fluid formalism, our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Edoardo Giangrandi , Afonso Ávila , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência

We investigate the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties using the relativistic mean-field theory. By incorporating the dark matter model, we explore how dark matter parameters, specifically dark matter mass and Fermi momentum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-29 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

{We present a study of neutron star models that contain dark matter (DM) in the core. The DM is assumed to have a particle nature and to be self-interacting. Using constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wasif Husain , Anthony W. Thomas

We study the formation and properties of dark neutron stars in a scenario where dark matter is made up of (heavy) dark baryons in a sequestered copy of the MSSM. This scenario naturally explains the coincidence of baryonic and dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Jacob A. Litterer , João G. Rosa

A recent proposal suggests that experimental discrepancies on the lifetime of neutrons can be resolved if neutrons decay to dark matter. At the same time it has been demonstrated that such a decay mode would soften the nuclear equation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Benjamin Grinstein , Chris Kouvaris , Niklas Grønlund Nielsen

We investigate how simultaneous mass and radius measurements of massive neutron stars (NSs) can help constrain properties of dark matter (DM) possibly admixed in them. Within a fermionic DM model that interacts only through gravitation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li , Jia-Yu Zhang , Wei-Na Shen , Hui Zhang

We examine neutron star properties based on a model of dense matter composed of B=1 skyrmions immersed in a mesonic mean field background. The model realizes spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking non-linearly and incorporates scale-breaking…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Prashanth Jaikumar , Manjari Bagchi , Rachid Ouyed

We study an impact of self-interacting bosonic dark matter (DM) on various observable properties of neutron stars (NSs). The analysis is performed for asymmetric DM with masses from few MeV to GeV, the self-coupling constant of order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Davood Rafiei Karkevandi , Soroush Shakeri , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi

We study an impact of asymmetric fermionic dark matter on neutron star properties, including tidal deformability, mass, radius, etc. We present the conditions at which dark matter particles tend to form a compact structure in a core of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-29 V. Sagun , E. Giangrandi , O. Ivanytskyi , I. Lopes , K. A. Bugaev

The maximum mass of a neutron star is generally determined by the equation of state of the star material. In this study, we take into account dark matter particles, assumed to behave like fermions with a free parameter to account for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-21 Ang Li , Feng Huang , Ren-Xin Xu