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We show that axion dark matter (DM) may be detectable through narrow radio lines emitted from neutron stars. The neutron star magnetosphere hosts a strong magnetic field and a plasma frequency that increases towards the neutron star…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Anson Hook , Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin R. Safdi , Zhiquan Sun

It has been suggested that radio telescopes may be sensitive to axion dark matter that resonantly converts to radio photons in the magnetospheres surrounding neutron stars (NSs). In this work, we closely examine this possibility by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Benjamin R. Safdi , Zhiquan Sun , Alexander Y. Chen

The potential to detect axion dark matter through astrophysical processes has shown high promise in recent years. We therefore expand on previous work studying the axion-to-photon conversion efficacy of neutron stars and the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Felix Weber , Vikram Ravi

Axion dark matter (DM) may convert to radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation in the strong magnetic fields around neutron stars. The radio signature of such a process would be an ultra-narrow spectral peak at a frequency determined by…

Axion dark matter (DM) is predicted to convert into radio waves in neutron star magnetospheres. We assess the detectability of this signal using a 5 m radio telescope to be installed at the Fan Mountain Observatory, operating in the UHF, L-…

The magnetospheres of neutron stars in the Galactic Center provide an exceptional environment to search for dark matter axions through their resonant conversion into photons. The combination of extreme magnetic fields and high dark matter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 J. De Miguel , E. Hatziminaoglou , J. Prieto-Polo , J. D. Marrero-Falcón , Abaz Kryemadhi

We propose a new method to detect observational appearance of Dark Matter axions. The method utilizes observations of neutron stars (NSs) in radio. It is based on the conversion of axions to photons in strong magnetic fields of NSs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. S. Pshirkov , S. B. Popov

The QCD axion and axion-like particles are compelling candidates for galactic dark matter. Theoretically, axions can convert into photons in the presence of a strong external magnetic field, which means it is possible to search for them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Liam Walters , Jordan Shroyer , Madeleine Edenton , Prakamya Agrawal , Bradley Johnson , Bradley J. Kavanagh , David J. E. Marsh , Luca Visinelli

The QCD axion, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem in QCD, is a prominent candidate for dark matter (DM). In the presence of strong magnetic fields, such as those around neutron stars, axions can theoretically convert into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Luca Visinelli , Bradley Johnson , Bradley J. Kavanagh , David J. E. Marsh , Jordan E. Shroyer , Liam Walters

Axions provide a natural and well-motivated dark matter candidate, with the capability to convert directly to photons in the presence of an electromagnetic field. A particularly compelling observational target is the conversion of dark…

A model is constructed to predict the emission originating from axion-to-photon conversion in the strongly magnetized ultrarelativistic plasma of neutron stars. The acceleration and multiplicity of the charges are observed to shift the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-20 Javier De Miguel

Axion as one of the promising dark matter candidates can be detected through narrow radio lines emitted from the magnetic white dwarf stars. Due to the existence of the strong magnetic field, the axion may resonantly convert into the radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Jin-Wei Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Run-Min Yao , Peng-Fei Yin

The natural environment of the Earth can act as a sensitive detector for dark matter in ultralight axions. When axions with masses between $1\times10^{-15}\,{\rm eV}$ and $1\times10^{-13}\,{\rm eV}$ pass through the Earth, they interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Yoshiaki Himemoto

We discuss axion dark matter detection via two mechanisms: spontaneous decays and resonant conversion in neutron star magnetospheres. For decays, we show that the brightness temperature signal, rather than flux, is a less ambiguous measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Richard A. Battye , Bjoern Garbrecht , Jamie I. McDonald , Francesco Pace , Sankarshana Srinivasan

Axion dark matter can be converted into photons in the magnetospheres of neutron stars leading to a spectral line centred on the Compton wavelength of the axion. Due to the rotation of the star and the plasma effects in the magnetosphere…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 R. A. Battye , M. J. Keith , J. I. McDonald , S. Srinivasan , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede

Axion dark matter (DM) produces echo images of bright radio sources via stimulated decay. These images appear as a faint radio line centered at half the axion mass, with the line width set by the DM velocity dispersion. Due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Yitian Sun , Katelin Schutz , Harper Sewalls , Calvin Leung , Kiyoshi Wesley Masui

Axions are a theoretically promising dark matter (DM) candidate. In the presence of radiation from bright astrophysical sources at radio frequencies, nonrelativistic DM axions can undergo stimulated decay to two nearly back-to-back photons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-25 Yitian Sun , Katelin Schutz , Anjali Nambrath , Calvin Leung , Kiyoshi Masui

Axion dark matter passing through the magnetospheres of magnetars can undergo hyper-efficient resonant mixing with low-energy photons, leading to the production of narrow spectral lines that could be detectable on Earth. Since this is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Sandip Roy , Anirudh Prabhu , Christopher Thompson , Samuel J. Witte , Carlos Blanco , Jonathan Zhang

Axion-like particles, which we call axions, can compose the missing dark matter and may form substructures such as miniclusters and axion stars. We obtain the mass distributions of axion stars derived from their host miniclusters in our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-23 Dennis Maseizik , Sagnik Mondal , Hyeonseok Seong , Günter Sigl

The search for axions has gained ground in recent years, with laboratory searches for cold dark matter (CDM) axions, relativistic solar axions and ultra-light axions the subject of extensive literature. In particular, the interest in axions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-07 Katharine Kelley , P. J. Quinn
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