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Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is proposed as a theoretical candidate of dark matter particles with masses of approximately $10^{-22}$ eV. The interactions between ULDM particles and standard model particles would cause variations in pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-30 Zi-Qing Xia , Tian-Peng Tang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) offer an independent method for searching for ultralight dark matter (ULDM), whose wavelike nature induces periodic oscillations in the arrival times of radio pulses. In addition to this gravitational effect, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are exceptionally sensitive detectors in the frequency band $\text{nHz} \lesssim f \lesssim \mu\text{Hz}$. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with mass in the range $10^{-23}\,\text{eV} \lesssim m_\phi \lesssim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 David E. Kaplan , Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle

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

Spin-2 ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is a viable dark matter candidate and it can be constrained using gravitational wave (GW) observations. In this paper, we investigate the detectability of spin-2 ULDM by space-based GW interferometers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Jing-Rui Zhang , Ju Chen , Heng-Sen Jiao , Rong-Gen Cai , Yun-Long Zhang

The cold dark matter model successfully describes the Universe on large scales, yet faces challenges at sub-galactic scales. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with particle masses around $10^{-22} \mathrm{eV}$, offers a promising solution to…

Metric perturbations induced by ultralight dark matter (ULDM) fields have long been identified as a potential target for pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. Previous works have focused on the coherent oscillation of metric perturbations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Hyungjin Kim , Andrea Mitridate

Scalar dark matter is a viable alternative to particle dark matter models such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS). This is particularly the case for scalars with a low mass $m \gtrsim 10^{-21} {\rm eV}$ as required to make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

We investigate the impact of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) on the mergers of supermassive black holes (SMBH) and the resulting stochastic gravitational wave background. ULDM is based on exceptionally light particles and yields galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Shreyas Tiruvaskar , Russell Boey , Richard Easther , Chris Gordon

Binary pulsars can be excellent probes of ultra-light dark matter. We consider the scenario where the latter is represented by a spin-2 field. The coherent oscillations of the dark matter field perturb the dynamics of binary systems,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-30 Juan Manuel Armaleo , Diana López Nacir , Federico R. Urban

We propose a novel method for distinguishing the spin of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) using interferometric gravitational wave detectors. ULDM can be a bosonic field of spin-0, 1, or 2, and each induces distinctive signatures in signals.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Yusuke Manita , Hiroki Takeda , Katsuki Aoki , Tomohiro Fujita , Shinji Mukohyama

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is a compelling candidate for cosmological dark matter. If ULDM interacts with ordinary matter, it can induce measurable, characteristic signals in pulsar-timing data because it causes the orbits of pulsars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Pavel Kůs , Diana López Nacir , Federico R. Urban

Ultralight axionlike dark matter (ALDM) is a leading candidate in the dark matter realm, characterized by its prominent wave properties on astronomical scales. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and Pulsar polarization arrays (PPAs) aim to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ximeng Li , Yonghao Liu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Shi Dai , Boris Goncharov , Xiao-Song Hu , Qing-Guo Huang , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Yu-Mei Wu , Xiao Xue , Xingjiang Zhu

The nature of dark matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern physics. In this work, we investigate the phenomenological implications of ultralight scalar dark matter (ULDM) coupled to neutrinos. We focus on a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Luis A. Delgadillo , O. G. Miranda , Hiroshi Nunokawa

The nature of dark matter remains obscure in spite of decades of experimental efforts. The mass of dark matter candidates can span a wide range, and its coupling with the Standard Model sector remains uncertain. All these unknowns make the…

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

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is one of the leading well-motivated dark matter candidates, predicted in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics and cosmology. There have been increasing interests in searching for ULDM in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

The angular correlation of pulsar residuals observed by NANOGrav and other pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations show evidence in support of the Hellings-Downs correlation expected from stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-03 Debtosh Chowdhury , Arpan Hait , Subhendra Mohanty , Suraj Prakash

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is currently one of the most popular classes of cosmological dark matter. The most important advantage is that ULDM with mass $m \sim 10^{-22}$ eV can account for the small-scale problems encountered in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-27 Man Ho Chan , Chu Fai Yeung

Millisecond pulsars are extremely precise celestial clocks: as they rotate, the beamed radio waves emitted along the axis of their magnetic field can be detected with radio telescopes, which allows for tracking subtle changes in the…

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