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Motivated by the SU(2)$_{\rm CMB}$ modification of the cosmological model $\Lambda$CDM, we consider isolated fuzzy-dark-matter lumps, made of ultralight axion particles whose masses arise due to distinct SU(2) Yang-Mills scales and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-17 Janning Meinert , Ralf Hofmann

Annihilations of weakly interacting dark matter particles provide an important signature for the possibility of indirect detection of dark matter in galaxy halos. These self-annihilations can be greatly enhanced in the vicinity of a massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Bertone , G. Sigl , J. Silk

Recently there has been significant interest in the claim that dark matter axions gravitationally thermalize and form a Bose-Einstein condensate with cosmologically long-range correlation. This has potential consequences for galactic scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Alan H. Guth , Mark P. Hertzberg , C. Prescod-Weinstein

In this article we treat the non-adiabatic photon-to-axion resonant conversion of curvature radiation, synchrotron emission and inverse Compton scattering dominating the spectral density function of pulsars. First, we introduce emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Javier De Miguel , Chiko Otani

An interesting strategy for indirect detection of Dark Matter comes through the amounts of electrons and positrons usually emitted by DM pair annihilation. The e+e- gyrating in the galactic magnetic field then produce secondary synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-08 Enrico Borriello , Alessandro Cuoco , Gennaro Miele

If inflation scale is high, light scalars acquire large quantum fluctuations during inflation.If sufficiently long-lived, they will give rise to CDM isocurvature perturbations, which are highly constrained by the Planck data. Focusing on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Fuminobu Takahashi

An ultralight axion around $10^{-23}$ eV is known as a viable dark matter candidate. A distinguished feature of such a dark matter is the oscillating pressure which produces the oscillation of the gravitational potential with frequency in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-11 Arata Aoki , Jiro Soda

Ultralight boson fields, with a mass around $10^{-23}\text{eV}$, are promising candidates for the elusive cosmological dark matter. These fields induce a periodic oscillation of the spacetime metric in the nanohertz frequency band, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

We demonstrate that nuclear magnetic resonance based searches for dark matter (DM) have intrinsic and powerful sensitivity to dark photons and the axion-photon coupling. The reason is conceptually straightforward. An instrument such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Carl Beadle , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Jacob M. Leedom , Nicholas L. Rodd

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is among the most suitable candidates to replace WIMPs and to resolve the puzzling mystery of dark matter. A galactic dark matter halo made of these ultralight bosonic particles leads to the formation of a solitonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Gabriel d'Andrade Furlanetto , Riccardo Della Monica , Ivan De Martino

We investigate the possible parametric growth of photon amplitudes in a background of axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter. The observed extragalactic background radiation limits the allowed enhancement effect. We derive the resulting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 Günter Sigl , Pranjal Trivedi

As a well-motivated dark matter candidate, axions can be detected through the axion-photon resonant conversion in the magnetospheres of magnetic white dwarf stars or neutron stars. In this work, we utilize Omega Centauri, which is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Jin-Wei Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

It is demonstrated that detection of putative particles such as paraphotons and axions constituting the dark sector of the universe can be reduced to detection of extremely weak links or couplings between cavities and modes. This method…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-09 Maxim Goryachev , Ben McAllister , Michael E. Tobar

Measurements of 21cm intensity mapping (IM) during the dark ages can potentially provide us with an unprecedented window on high redshifts and small scales. One of the main advantages this can bring involves the possibility to probe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Eleonora Vanzan , Alvise Raccanelli , Nicola Bartolo

Matter in the universe has become ``dark'' or ``missing'' through misconceptions about the fluid mechanics of gravitational structure formation. Gravitational condensation occurs on non-acoustic density nuclei at the largest Schwarz length…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl H. Gibson

The axions produced during the QCD phase transition by vacuum realignment, string decay and domain wall decay thermalize as a result of their gravitational self-interactions when the photon temperature is approximately 500 eV. They then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Nilanjan Banik , Adam Christopherson , Pierre Sikivie , Elisa Maria Todarello

The phase diagrams of ultralight dark matter (DM), modeled as a self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensate with axionlike interaction, are studied. We classify stable, metastable, and unstable DM states over a wide range of condensate wave…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-21 A. V. Nazarenko

One of the leading candidates for dark matter is axion or axion-like particle in a form of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). In this paper, we present an analysis of 17 high-resolution galactic rotation curves from "The H{\footnotesize I}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-04 Ming-Hua Li , Zhi-Bing Li

Due to their high magnetic fields and plasma densities, pulsars provide excellent laboratories for tests of beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics. When axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) approach closely enough to pulsars, they can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 Anirudh Prabhu , Nicholas M. Rapidis

Axions and axion-like particles are a leading model for the dark matter in the Universe; therefore, dark matter halos may be boson stars in the process of collapsing. We examine a class of static boson stars with a non-minimal coupling to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Jeremy Heyl , Matthew W. Choptuik , David Shinkaruk