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Millisecond pulsars, representing the older neutron star population, are believed to have undergone a prolonged period of dark matter accumulation, resulting in a higher dark matter content. Their extreme rotation makes them unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-27 Lorenzo Cipriani , Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Dark matter is hypothesized to interact with ordinary matter solely through gravity and may be present in compact objects such as strange quark stars. We treat strange quark stars admixed with dark matter as two-fluid systems to investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Yida Yang , Chen Wu , Ji-Feng Yang

Recent observational results for the masses and radii of some neutron stars are in contrast with typical observations and theoretical predictions for "normal" neutron stars. We propose that their unusual properties can be interpreted as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-27 Paolo Ciarcelluti , Fredrik Sandin

The potential role of a cosmic vacuum dark component in the properties of neutron stars is investigated. It is assumed that the static, spherically symmetric distribution of matter within neutron stars is supported by two distinct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 L. F. Araujo , J. A. S. Lima , G. Lugones

In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in understanding how dark matter affects neutron stars, helping them to better understand complex astrophysical phenomena. In this paper, we delve deeper into this problem by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-17 Prashant Thakur , Tuhin Malik , T. K. Jha

We perform a detailed analysis of radial oscillations to discuss dynamical stability in two-fluid neutron stars composed of ordinary nuclear matter and a gravitationally coupled dark matter component. Using a fully relativistic two-fluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

The tidal deformability and the radius of neutron stars are observables, which have been used to constrain the neutron star equation of state and explore the composition in neutron stars. We investigated the radius and tidal deformability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-06 Hongyi Sun , Dehua Wen

We investigated compact stars consisting of cold quark matter and fermionic dark matter treated as two admixed fluids. We computed the stellar structures and fundamental radial oscillation frequencies for different masses of the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 José C. Jiménez , Eduardo S. Fraga

Because of their extreme densities and consequently, gravitational potential, compact objects such as neutron stars can prove to be excellent captors of dark matter particles. Considering purely gravitational interactions between dark and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Pratik Thakur , Anil Kumar , Vivek Baruah Thapa , Vishal Parmar , Monika Sinha

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

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

The maximum mass of a neutron star is generally determined by the equation of state of the star material. In this study, we take into account dark matter particles, assumed to behave like fermions with a free parameter to account for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-21 Ang Li , Feng Huang , Ren-Xin Xu

We investigate how simultaneous mass and radius measurements of massive neutron stars (NSs) can help constrain properties of dark matter (DM) possibly admixed in them. Within a fermionic DM model that interacts only through gravitation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li , Jia-Yu Zhang , Wei-Na Shen , Hui Zhang

Over the past two decades, significant strides have been made in the study of Dark Matter (DM) admixed neutron stars and their associated properties. However, an intriguing facet regarding the effect of DM on magnetized neutron stars still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Vishal Parmar , H. C. Das , M. K. Sharma , S. K. Patra

The presence of dark matter has been ascertained through a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena and its nature is a central puzzle in modern science. Elementary particles stand as the most compelling explanation. They have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Daniel A. Camargo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Riccardo Sturani

In the present paper we study the oscillation spectrum of neutron stars containing both ordinary matter and dark energy in different proportions. Within the model we consider, the equilibrium configurations are numerically constructed and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Daniela D. Doneva

Within the relativistic mean-field model, we investigate the properties of dark matter (DM) admixed neutron stars, considering non-rotating objects made of isotropic matter. We adopt the IOPB-I hadronic equation of state (EOS) by assuming…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-26 Pinku Routray , H. C. Das , Souhardya Sen , Bharat Kumar , Grigoris Panotopoulos , Tianqi Zhao

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

We investigate the structural, dynamical, and oscillatory properties of neutron stars admixed with dark matter, modeled via a single-fluid formalism where dark matter interacts with nuclear matter through an effective Higgs-portal coupling.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

We outline two important effects that are missing from most evaluations of the dark matter capture rate in neutron stars. As dark matter scattering with nucleons in the star involves large momentum transfer, nucleon structure must be taken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-05 Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Theo F. Motta , Sandra Robles , Anthony W. Thomas , Michael Virgato