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Dark matter (DM) within the solar system induces deviations in the geodetic drift of gyroscope spin due to its gravitational interaction. Assuming a constant DM density as a minimal scenario, we constrain DM overdensity within the Gravity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Sara Rufrano Aliberti , Gaetano Lambiase , Tanmay Kumar Poddar

We investigate the astrophysical consequences of an attractive long-range interaction between dark matter and baryonic matter. Our study highlights the role of this interaction in inducing dynamical friction between dark matter and stars,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-06 Yang Ma , Zihui Wang

The neutron star properties are generally determined by the equation of state of $\beta$-equilibrated dense matter. In this work, we consider the interaction of fermionic dark matter (DM) particles with the nucleons via Higgs exchange and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Patra

The accretion of dark matter (DM) onto compact objects and the potential gravitational collapse of neutron stars due to this accretion has become a promising indirect probe of DM properties, complementing terrestrial experiments. We show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 János Takátsy , Lorenz Zwick , David O'Neill , Johan Samsing

Variations of dispersion measure (DM) have been observed in some binary pulsars, which can not be well explained by the propagation effects, such as turbulence of the interstellar media (ISM) between the Earth and the pulsar. This paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. P. Gong

I demonstrate that an effect similar to the Roemer delay, familiar from timing radio pulsars, should be detectable in the first eclipsing double white dwarf (WD) binary, NLTT 11748. By measuring the difference of the time between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 David L Kaplan

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

Precision observations of orbital systems have recently emerged as a promising new means of detecting gravitational waves and ultra-light dark matter, offering sensitivity in new regimes with significant discovery potential. These searches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-25 Joshua W. Foster , Diego Blas , Adrien Bourgoin , Aurelien Hees , Míriam Herrero-Valea , Alexander C. Jenkins , Xiao Xue

If dark matter consists of ultralight bosons, on galactic scales it can be effectively described as a coherent classical field experiencing oscillations. Such a field could perturb the dynamics of celestial bodies via a direct coupling to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Federico Huxhagen , Diana López Nacir

Recent high-resolution simulations that include Cold Dark Matter (CDM) and baryons have shown that baryonic physics can dramatically alter the dark matter structure of galaxies. These results modify our predictions for observed galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Alyson Brooks

We analyze the effect of Dark Matter (DM) - Standard Model (SM) non-gravitational interactions on the orbital dynamics of celestial bodies near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, where the DM density is generically expected to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 Javier F. Acevedo , Aidan J. Reilly , Lillian Santos-Olmsted

Despite evidence for the existence of dark matter (DM) from very high and low redshifts, a moderate amount of DM particle decay remains a valid possibility. This includes both models with very long-lived yet unstable particles or mixed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Jonathan Hubert , Aurel Schneider , Doug Potter , Joachim Stadel , Sambit K. Giri

Dark matter (DM) may be captured around a neutron star (NS) through DM-nucleon interactions. We observe that the enhancement of such capturing is particularly significant when the DM velocity and/or momentum transfer depend on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-11 Chih-Ting Lu , Arvind Kumar Mishra , Lei Wu

Based on observational constraints on large scale structure and halo structure, dark matter is generally taken to be cold and essentially collisionless. On the other hand, given the large number of particles and forces in the visible world,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 JiJi Fan , Andrey Katz , Lisa Randall , Matthew Reece

Previous studies on astrophysical dark matter (DM) constraints have all assumed that the Milky Way's (MW) DM halo can be modelled in isolation. However, recent work suggests that the MW's largest dwarf satellite, the Large Magellanic Cloud…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-19 Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore , Denis Erkal , Sophia Lilleengen , Michael S. Petersen

We study the interaction between dark matter (DM) and highly magnetized neutron stars (NSs), focusing on how DM particle mass, mass fraction, and magnetic field (MF) strength affect NS structure and stability. We consider self-interacting,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Pinku Routaray , Vishal Parmar , H. C. Das , Bharat Kumar , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are the smallest known stellar systems where under Newtonian interpretations, a significant amount of dark matter is required to explain observed kinematics. In fact, they are in this sense the most heavily dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 X. Hernandez

Considering ten well-known relativistic mean field models, we invoke feeble interaction between hadronic matter and fermionic dark matter (DM) $\chi$ via new physics scalar ($\phi$) and vector ($\xi$) mediators in neutron star core, thereby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-11 Atanu Guha , Debashree Sen

We use observations of ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies to constrain the particle mass of ultra-light dark matter. Potential fluctuations created by wave interference in virialized "fuzzy" dark matter (FDM) halos dynamically heat stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Neal Dalal , Andrey Kravtsov

In this work we show how the inclusion of dark matter (DM) direct detection upper bounds in a theoretically consistent manner can affect the allowed parameter space of a DM model. Traditionally, the limits from DM direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-14 Cristina Marcos , Miguel Peiro , Sandra Robles