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This research studies the intricate interplay between dark and baryonic matter within hybrid neutron stars enriched by anisotropic bosonic dark matter halos. Our modelling, guided by the equation of state with a free parameter, reveals…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-01 Zakary Buras-Stubbs , Ilídio Lopes

Motivated by the various theoretical studies regarding the efficient capturing of dark matter by neutron stars, we explore the possible indirect effects of captured dark matter on the cooling mechanism of a neutron star. The equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-05 Ankit Kumar , H. C. Das , S. K. Patra

We investigate anisotropic compact stars comprising two non-interacting fluids: quark matter and condensed dark matter. Using the MIT Bag model equation of state for quark matter and Bose-Einstein Condensate equation of state for dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 G. Panotopoulos , A. Rincón , I. Lopes

Dark matter could accumulate around neutron stars in sufficient amounts to affect their global properties. In this work, we study the effect of a specific model for dark matter -- a massive and self-interacting vector (spin-1) field -- on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Cédric Jockel , Laura Sagunski

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

The properties of a neutron star are studied in the presence of dark matter. We have considered a relatively light Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) as a dark matter candidate with properties suggested by the results of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Abdul Quddus , Grigorios Panotopoulos , Bharat Kumar , Shakeb Ahmad , S. K. Patra

Kinetic heating of old cold neutron stars, via the scattering of dark matter with matter in the star, provides a promising way to probe the nature of dark matter interactions. We consider a dark matter candidate that is a Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Avirup Ghosh

Brown dwarfs, being transitional objects between giant planets and low-mass stars, possess dense, cool interiors that provide optimal conditions to explore non-standard physics. Capture and accumulation of dark-matter particles can alter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 A. Pérez-Garrido

We study the effect of asymmetric fermionic dark matter (DM) on the thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs). No interaction between DM and baryonic matter is assumed, except the gravitational one. Using the two-fluid formalism, we show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-08 Afonso Ávila , Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência

Neutron stars change their structure with accumulation of dark matter. We study how their mass is influenced from the environment. Close to the sun, the dark matter accretion from the neutron star does not have any effect on it. Moving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Antonino Del Popolo , Morgan Le Delliou , Maksym Deliyergiyev

Neutron star is the ultimate testing place for the physics of dense nuclear matter. Before the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, various nuclear equations of state have been used to estimate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-03 Young-Min Kim , Kyujin Kwak , Chang Ho Hyun , Hana Gil , Chang-Hwan Lee

We consider the implications of fermionic asymmetric dark matter for a "mixed neutron star" composed of ordinary baryons and dark fermions. We find examples, where for a certain range of dark fermion mass -- when it is less than that of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 I. Goldman , R. N. Mohapatra , S. Nussinov , D. Rosenbaum , V. Teplitz

Dark matter, an important portion of compact objects, can influence different phenomena in neutron stars. The spontaneous scalarization in the scalar-tensor gravity has been proposed for neutron stars. Here, we investigate the spontaneous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Fahimeh Rahimi , Zeinab Rezaei

Dark Matter constitutes most of the matter in the presently accepted cosmological model for our Universe. The extreme conditions of ordinary baryonic matter, namely high density and compactness, in Neutron Stars make these objects suitable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-20 M. Cermeño , M. Ángeles Pérez-García , Joseph Silk

The properties of high-density nuclear and neutron matter are studied using a relativistic mean-field approximation to the nuclear matter energy functional. Based on ideas of effective field theory, nonlinear interactions between the fields…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Horst Mueller , Brian D. Serot

While the search for dark matter remains a central focus of modern astrophysics and high-energy physics, neutron stars provide natural laboratories in which the interaction between dark matter and baryonic matter can be studied. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Claudio Lazarte , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), a practical alternative to cold dark matter, can exist in compact stars. Here, applying the FDM equation of state (EoS) constrained by CMB and large-scale structure data, we calculate the structure of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Zeinab Rezaei

Compact stars consisting of massless quark matter and fermionic dark matter are studied by solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for two fluids separately. Dark matter is further investigated by incorporating inter-fermionic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Payel Mukhopadhyay , Juregen Schaffner-Bielich

We conduct a systematic investigation of the influence of the nuclear symmetry energy on the proposed neutron decay into dark matter particles within the cores of neutron stars. Unlike the majority of previous studies that considered only…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 M. Divaris , Ch. C. Moustakidis

We investigate the effects of dark matter (DM) on the nuclear equation of state (EoS) and neutron star structure, in the relativistic mean field theory, both in the absence and presence of a crust. The $\sigma-\omega$ model is modified by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Adrian G. Abac , Christopher C. Bernido , Jose Perico H. Esguerra