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The total mass density of the Universe appears to be dominated by dark matter. However, beyond its gravitational interactions at the galactic scale, little is known about its nature. Extensions of the quantum electrodynamics Lagrangian with…

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for studying both the geometry and the dynamics of the Universe. Its power spectrum contains information on the sources emitting photons and on the large--scale structures that these hotons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Stefano Camera , Daniele Bertacca , Antonaldo Diaferio , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

The era of precision cosmology allows us to test the composition of the dark matter. Mixed ultralight or fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a cosmological model with dark matter composed of a combination of particles of mass $m\leq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Alex Laguë , Bodo Schwabe , Renée Hložek , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers

Rapid development of ultrafast ultraintense laser technologies continues to create opportunities for studying strong-field physics under extreme conditions. However, accurate determination of the spatial and temporal characteristics of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Zhi-Wei Lu , Xin-Di Hou , Feng Wan , Yousef I. Salamin , Chong Lv , Bo Zhang , Fei Wang , Zhong-Feng Xu , Jian-Xing Li

Pulsars have been primarily detected by their narrow pulses or periodicity in time domain data. Interferometric surveys for pulsars are challenging due to the trade-off between beam sensitivity and beam size and the corresponding tradeoff…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-26 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

We investigate the dynamics of eccentric binary pulsars embedded in dark matter environments. While previous studies have primarily focused on circular orbits in collisionless dark matter halos, we extend this framework to eccentric systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Giorgio Nicolini , Andrea Maselli , Miguel Zilhão

The core-cusp problem is a widely cited motivation for the exploration of dark matter models beyond standard CDM. One such alternative is ULDM; extremely light scalar particles exhibiting wavelike properties on kiloparsec scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Emily Kendall , Richard Easther

Pulsar radio emission undergoes dispersion due to the presence of free electrons in the interstellar medium (ISM). The dispersive delay in the arrival time of pulsar signal changes over time due to the varying ISM electron column density…

The oscillating pressure of the ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) can induce the oscillation of the local gravitational potential. Similar to the time-dependent frequency shift for the pulse signals of pulsars, the oscillation of the local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Ke Wang , Yin Zhong

During the motion of a binary pulsar around the Galactic center, the pulsar and its companion experience a wind of dark-matter particles that can affect the orbital motion through dynamical friction. We show that this effect produces a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-31 Paolo Pani

Gravitational weak lensing by dark matter halos leads to a measurable imprint in the shear correlation function of galaxies. Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight axion-like particles of mass $m\sim 10^{-22}\text{ eV}$, suppresses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Mona Dentler , David J. E. Marsh , Renée Hložek , Alex Laguë , Keir K. Rogers , Daniel Grin

We consider a dark confining gauge theory with millicharged Ultra-Light Pions (ULP) and heavy baryons as dark matter candidates. The model simultaneously realizes the ultra-light (STrongly-interacting Ultralight Millicharged Particle or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-24 Azadeh Maleknejad , Evan McDonough

Particle dark matter could have a mass anywhere from that of ultralight candidates, $m_\chi\sim 10^{-21}\,$eV, to scales well above the GeV. Conventional laboratory searches are sensitive to a range of masses close to the weak scale, while…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-13 Rodrigo Alonso , Diego Blas , Peter Wolf

Pulsar Timing constraints on scalar-tensor theories with conformal and disformal couplings to matter are discussed. Reducing the dynamics to the motion in the centre of mass frame and using the mean anomaly parametrisation, we find the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-24 David Benisty , Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis

We performed a Bayesian analysis of pulsar timing residuals from the NANOGrav pulsar timing array to search for a specific form of stochastic narrow-band signal produced by oscillating gravitational potential in the Galactic halo. Such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-10 N. K. Porayko , K. A. Postnov

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

We propose utilizing space quantum sensors to detect ultralight dark matter (ULDM) bound to planetary bodies, focusing on Jupiter as the heaviest planet in the solar system. Leveraging Jupiter's deep gravitational potential and the wealth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-29 Yu-Dai Tsai , Fazlollah Hajkarim

Dark matter (DM) nature is one of the major issues in physics. The search for a DM candidate has motivated the known proposal of an ultralight scalar field (ULSF). We explore the possibility to search for this ULSF at the upcoming European…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-03 Rubén Cordero , Luis A. Delgadillo , O. G. Miranda

A fast transition between a standard matter-like era and a late $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM)-like epoch (or more in general, a CDM+DE era), generated by a single Unified Dark Matter component, can provide a new interesting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marco Bruni , Ruth Lazkoz , Alberto Rozas-Fernandez

A light scalar dark matter (DM) is allowed in a wide range of the mass and interaction types. We show that the light scalar DM may be probed in a new way from final years of neutron-star (NS) binary inspirals. If the DM interacts with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Han Gil Choi , Sunghoon Jung