English
Related papers

Related papers: Dark matter admixed neutron stars

200 papers

We study the dark matter effects on the nuclear matter parameters characterising the equation of states of super dense neutron-rich nucleonic-matter. The observables of the nuclear matter, i.e. incompressibility, symmetry energy and its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , Takashi Nakatsukasa , Ang Li , S. K. Patra

We discuss strange stars admixed with fermionic dark matter in the presence of a strong magnetic field using the two-fluid Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equations. We describe strange quark matter using the MIT bag model and consider magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-11 Osvaldo Ferreira , Eduardo S. Fraga

We study the mass-radius relation and the second Love number of compact objects made of ordinary matter and non-selfannihilating fermionic dark matter for a wide range of dark matter particle masses, and for the cases of weakly and strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Yannick Dengler , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich , Laura Tolos

We present a comprehensive study of compact stars admixed with non-self annihilating self-interacting fermionic dark matter, delineating the dependence on the nuclear equation of state by considering the two limiting parametrized equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-16 Mikel F. Barbat , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich , Laura Tolos

Gravitational-wave observations provide a unique window into the fundamental nature of massive objects. In particular, neutron star equations of state have been constrained due to the success of gravitational wave observatories. Recently,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Nguyen Thi Lan Anh , Peter Lott , Quynh Lan Nguyen

Multi-messenger observations of compact binary mergers provide a new way to constrain the nature of dark matter that may accumulate in and around neutron stars. In this article, we extend the infrastructure of our numerical-relativity code…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-23 Mattia Emma , Federico Schianchi , Francesco Pannarale , Violetta Sagun , Tim Dietrich

A recent proposal suggests that experimental discrepancies on the lifetime of neutrons can be resolved if neutrons decay to dark matter. At the same time it has been demonstrated that such a decay mode would soften the nuclear equation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Benjamin Grinstein , Chris Kouvaris , Niklas Grønlund Nielsen

This thesis investigates the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties, focusing on mass, radius, and tidal deformability. Using two-fluid and single-fluid models, dark matter is incorporated into the equation of state (EOS) via a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Prashant Thakur

Neutron stars represent unique laboratories, offering insights into the physics of supranuclear-density matter and serving as potential hosts for dark matter. This study explores the impact of dark matter cores on rapidly rotating neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Andreas Konstantinou

We investigate compact objects formed by dark matter admixed with ordinary matter made of neutron star matter and white dwarf material. We consider non-self annihilating dark matter with an equation-of-state given by an interacting Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 Laura Tolos , Juergen Schaffner-Bielich , Yannick Dengler

The unknown state of matter at ultra-high density, large proton/neutron number asymmetry, and low temperature is a major long-standing problem in modern physics. Neutron stars provide the only known setting in the Universe where matter in…

We study axial quasi-normal modes of admixed neutron stars composed of ordinary nuclear matter and a self-interacting bosonic dark matter component. The equilibrium configurations are obtained by solving the coupled two-fluid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Hamza Boumaza , Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia

We systematically investigate the fundamental oscillation frequencies of dark matter admixed neutron stars, focusing on models with self-interacting fermionic dark matter that couples to normal matter solely through gravity. The analysis is…

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

We consider gravitationally bound states of asymmetric dark matter (ADM stars), and the impact of ADM capture on the stability of neutron stars. We derive and interpret the equation of state for ADM with both attractive and repulsive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Moira I. Gresham , Kathryn M. Zurek

We studied the properties of dark matter admixed-neutron stars (DMANS), considering fermionic dark matter (DM) that interacts gravitationally with hadronic matter (HM). Using relativistic mean-field equations of state (EoSs) for both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Payaswinee Arvikar , Sakshi Gautam , Anagh Venneti , Sarmistha Banik

We study the possibility of asymmetric dark matter with self-interactions forming compact stable objects. We solve the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation and find the mass-radius relation of such "dark stars", their density profile and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Chris Kouvaris , Niklas Grønlund Nielsen

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

Precise and reliable measurements of the masses and radii of neutron stars with a variety of masses would provide valuable guidance for improving models of the properties of cold matter with densities above the saturation density of nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 M. Coleman Miller , Frederick K. Lamb

We investigate the impact of dark matter (DM) on hybrid and twin stars within a two-fluid framework, where DM and normal matter interact only through gravity. A self-interacting fermionic DM model is considered, while for the nuclear and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 H. C. Das

The effects of dark matter (DM) on the curvatures of the neutron star (NS) are examined by using the stiff and soft relativistic mean-field equation of states. The curvatures of the NSs are calculated with the variation of baryon density.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , S. K. Patra