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We study the effects of dark matter on the structural properties of neutron stars. In particular we investigate how the presence of a dark matter component influences the mass-radius relation, the value of the maximum mass of a neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Domenico Scordino , Ignazio Bombaci

The dark matter in neutron stars can exist from the lifetime of the progenitor or captured by this compact object. The properties of dark matter entered the neutron stars through each step could be different from each other. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Zeinab Rezaei

We study the hydrostatic equilibrium configuration of an admixture of degenerate dark matter and normal nuclear matter by using a general relativistic two-fluid formalism. We consider non- self-annihilating dark matter particles of mass ~ 1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 S. -C. Leung , M. -C. Chu , L. -M. Lin

We study the effects of dark matter on the properties of neutron stars by employing a DM-admixed model. The Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory with realistic three-body forces and a generic bosonic self-interacting dark matter model describe the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Hong-Ming Liu , Jin-Biao Wei , Zeng-Hua Li , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

We consider the effect of density dependent dark matter on the neutron star mass, radius, and tidal deformability. Nuclear matter (normal matter) as well as the fermionic dark matter sector is considered in a mean field model. We adopt the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Arpan Das , Tuhin Malik , Alekha C. Nayak

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

In [Leung et al., Phys. Rev. D 84, 107301 (2011)], we presented our results on using a general relativistic two-fluid formalism to study the hydrostatic equilibrium configuration of an admixture of degenerate dark matter and normal nuclear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-04 S. -C. Leung , M. -C. Chu , L. -M. Lin

Dark matter admixed neutron stars provide a promising avenue for observationally probing the dark matter characteristic. In this study, we examine non-radial oscillations in neutron stars containing self-interacting dark matter, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Hajime Sotani , Ankit Kumar

Concerning the stability of two-fluid star models, we prove the rigorous equivalence of two independent determining methods for mixed stars, after a brief review of the hybrid star case. Our derivations apply to general multi-fluid cases,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Xiao-Ding Zhou , Tian-Shun Chen , Si-Man Wu , Kilar Zhang

Dark matter may accumulate in neutron stars given its gravitational interaction and abundance. We investigate the influence of strongly-interacting dark matter, described by a QCD-like one-flavor $G_2$ gauge theory, on neutron stars. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-08 Yannick Dengler , Suchita Kulkarni , Axel Maas , Kevin Radl

We systematically study the observable properties of dark-matter admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear EOS in combination with self-interacting fermionic dark matter respecting constraints on the self-interaction cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Hong-Ming Liu , Jin-Biao Wei , Zeng-Hua Li , G. F. Burgio , H. C. Das , H. -J. Schulze

Neutron stars offer powerful astrophysical laboratories to probe the properties of dark matter. Gradual accumulation of heavy, non-annihilating dark matter in neutron stars can lead to the formation of comparable-mass black holes, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Anupam Ray

We study rotating compact stars that are mixtures of the ordinary nuclear matter in a neutron star and fermionic dark matter. After deriving equations describing a slowly rotating system made up of an arbitrary number of perfect fluids, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 John Cronin , Xinyang Zhang , Ben Kain

By assuming that only gravitation exists between dark matter (DM) and normal matter (NM), we study the effects of fermionic DM on the properties of neutron stars using the two-fluid Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff formalism. It is found that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Qian-Fei Xiang , Wei-Zhou Jiang , Dong-Rui Zhang , Rong-Yao Yang

We study the effects of dark matter on the properties of hybrid neutron stars, in particular the influence on the mass-radius relation, the value of the maximum mass, and the hadron-quark phase transition. To single out the equilibrium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Jin-Biao Wei , G. Wu , H. Chen , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

We investigate the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties using the relativistic mean-field theory. By incorporating the dark matter model, we explore how dark matter parameters, specifically dark matter mass and Fermi momentum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-29 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

We dynamically evolve for the first time dark matter admixed neutron stars with fermionic dark matter. These systems are mixtures of the ordinary nuclear matter of a neutron star and dark matter. To perform our dynamical evolutions, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-19 Troy Gleason , Ben Brown , Ben Kain

We study the cooling of isolated dark-matter-admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear equation of state and realistic nuclear pairing gaps, together with fermionic dark matter of variable particle mass and dark-matter fraction.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 B. X. Zhou , H. C. Das , J. B. Wei , G. F. Burgio , Z. H. Li , H. -J. Schulze

Binary neutron star mergers provide insight into strong-field gravity and the properties of ultra-dense nuclear matter. These events offer the potential to search for signatures of physics beyond the standard model, including dark matter.…

In this study, we investigate the impacts of dark matter (DM) on the properties of both static and rotating neutron stars utilizing a self-interacting DM model, motivated by the neutron decay anomaly. DM-admixed NSs are modeled by assuming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Pinku Routaray , Abirbhav Chakrawarty , N. K. Patra , Bharat Kumar
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