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Mirror Dark Matter (MDM) has been considered as an elegant framework for a particle theory of Dark Matter (DM). It is supposed that there exists a dark sector which is mirror of the ordinary matter. Some MDM models allow particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-26 Itzhak Goldman

Recent observations of FRB 20220529 reveal significant variation and a partial reversal in its rotation measure (RM), suggesting the presence of a dynamically evolving magnetized environment, which could be caused by the orbital motion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-07 Ze-Xin Du , Yun-Wei Yu , Aming Chen , Chen-Hui Niu , Jia-Heng Zhang

We investigate the influence of ideal Fermi gas dark matter on the observable properties of neutron stars (NSs). Our analysis considers dark matter (DM) particle masses ($\mu$) ranging from $0.2$ GeV to $1$ GeV and various DM mass fractions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Monmoy Molla , Masum Murshid , Mehedi Kalam

Three black-hole low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) in the Milky Way show rates of period decay which cannot be easily explained by standard mechanisms. Recently, it has been claimed that the anomalous period decays in two of these systems may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Francesca Scarcella , Bradley J. Kavanagh

Neutron stars (NSs) can be used to constrain dark matter (DM) since a NS can transform into a black hole (BH) if it captures sufficient DM particles and exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit. We extend earlier work and for the first time take…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 Dicong Liang , Lijing Shao

We explore the aggregate effect of binary systems on the Milky Way's dark matter (DM) velocity distribution with Monte Carlo simulations. Through gravitational interactions with binaries, transiting DM particles can gain substantial energy.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-11 Javier F. Acevedo , Adam Ritz

We investigate the possible presence of dark matter (DM) in massive and rotating neutron stars (NSs). For the purpose we extend our previous work [1] to introduce a light new physics vector mediator besides a scalar one in order to ensure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Atanu Guha , Debashree Sen

This short contributions summarizes a couple of recent results to test dark matter properties with galactic dynamics. First, I will present the impact in rotation curves from solitonic structures expected at the center of galaxies for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-11 Diego Blas

In recent years, the long-term effects of non-linear perturbations were found to be important for the evolution of the hierarchical triple system, which, for the central third body of a larger mass, can significantly suppress the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Li Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang

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

Dark Matter (DM) models providing possible alternative solutions to the small- scale crisis of standard cosmology are nowadays of growing interest. We consider DM interacting with light hidden fermions via well motivated fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Tobias Binder , Laura Covi , Ayuki Kamada , Hitoshi Murayama , Tomo Takahashi , Naoki Yoshida

We study the capture of dark matter particles by neutron stars in close binary systems. By performing a direct numerical simulation, we find that there is a sizable amplification of the rate of dark matter capture by each of the companions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Lionel Brayeur , Peter Tinyakov

A dark matter overdensity around a black hole may significantly alter the dynamics of the black hole's merger with another compact object. We consider here intermediate mass-ratio inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-23 Bradley J. Kavanagh , David A. Nichols , Gianfranco Bertone , Daniele Gaggero

Small-scale dark matter structure within the Milky Way is expected to affect pulsar timing. The change in gravitational potential induced by a dark matter halo passing near the line of sight to a pulsar would produce a varying delay in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Hamish A. Clark , Geraint F. Lewis , Pat Scott

In this study, we investigate the influence of an admixed fermionic dark matter (DM) component on the equilibrium structure of white dwarfs (WDs), with particular emphasis on the effects of varying the DM particle mass ($m_{\rm DM}$) and DM…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Rajasmita Sahoo , Somnath Mukhopadhyay , Mrutunjaya Bhuyan

The dynamic evolution of galactic bars in standard $\Lambda$CDM models is dominated by angular momentum loss to the dark matter haloes via dynamical friction. Traditional approximations to dynamical friction are formulated using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-29 Rimpei Chiba , Ralph Schönrich

We demonstrate that pulsar timing measurements may potentially be able to detect the presence of dark matter substructure within our own galaxy. As dark matter substructure transits near the line-of-sight between a pulsar and an observer,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-23 E. R. Siegel , M. P. Hertzberg , J. N. Fry

The traditional description of the orbital evolution of compact-object binaries, like double white dwarfs (DWDs), assumes that the system is driven only by gravitational wave (GW) radiation. However, the high magnetic fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 G. A. Carvalho , R. C. dos Anjos , J. G. Coelho , R. V. Lobato , M. Malheiro , R. M. Marinho , J. F. Rodriguez , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

We investigate the structural and observable impacts of dark matter (DM) on neutron stars using a combined equation of state that integrates the relativistic mean field (RMF) model for baryonic matter with a variable density profile for DM,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

The fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model treats DM as a bosonic field with astrophysically large de Broglie wavelength. A striking feature of this model is $\mathcal{O}(1)$ fluctuations in the dark matter density on time scales which are shorter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 David J. E. Marsh , Jens C. Niemeyer