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The presence of Dark matter (DM) within a neutron star (NS) can substantially influence the macroscopic properties. It is commonly assumed that the pressure inside an NS is isotropic, but in reality, pressure is locally anisotropic. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Premachand Mahapatra , Chiranjeeb Singha , Ayush Hazarika , Prasanta Kumar Das

The presence of dark matter (DM) within neutron stars (NSs) can be introduced by different accumulation scenarios in which DM and baryonic matter (BM) may interact only through the gravitational force. In this work, we consider asymmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Davood Rafiei Karkevandi , Mahboubeh Shahrbaf , Soroush Shakeri , Stefan Typel

The first stars in the universe form inside $\sim 10^6 M_\odot$ dark matter (DM) haloes whose initial density profiles are laid down by gravitational collapse in hierarchical structure formation scenarios. During the formation of the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Katherine Freese , Paolo Gondolo , J. A. Sellwood , Douglas Spolyar

By considering adiabatic contraction of the dark matter (DM) during star formation, we estimate the amount of DM trapped in stars at their birth. If the DM consists partly of primordial black holes (PBHs), they will be trapped together with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Fabio Capela , Maxim Pshirkov , Peter Tinyakov

In the standard picture of stellar evolution, pair-instability -- the energy loss in stellar cores due to electron-positron pair production -- is predicted to prevent the collapse of massive stars into black holes with mass in the range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-01 Nicolas Fernandez , Akshay Ghalsasi , Stefano Profumo , Nolan Smyth , Lillian Santos-Olmsted

Astronomers have been using the measured luminosity to estimate the {\em luminous mass} of stars, based on empirically established mass-to-light ratio which seems to be only applicable to a special class of stars---the main-sequence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-23 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

In regions of very high dark matter density such as the Galactic centre, the capture and annihilation of WIMP dark matter by stars has the potential to significantly alter their evolution. We describe the dark stellar evolution code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Pat Scott , Malcolm Fairbairn , Joakim Edsjö

Mass bounds on dark matter (DM) candidates are obtained for particles decoupling in or out of equilibrium with {\bf arbitrary} isotropic and homogeneous distribution functions. A coarse grained Liouville invariant primordial phase space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. Sanchez

About $26\%$ of the matter in our Universe is made up of Dark Matter (DM), which interacts with Standard Model (SM) matter only through gravitational or weak interactions. Many proposals have been made by scientists about the possible…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-30 Kalpana Bora

Bramante, Delgado, and Martin [Phys. Rev. D96, 063002(2017)., hereafter BDM17] extended the analytical formalism of dark matter (DM) capture in a very important way, which allows, in principle, the use of compact astrophysical objects, such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Cosmin Ilie , Jacob Pilawa , Saiyang Zhang

We study binary stars moving through a uniform dark matter background and experiencing dynamical friction. The centre-of-mass motion of the pairs is taken into account. We derive formulas and timescales for the secular evolution of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Nicolas Esser

We consider a dark sector scenario with two dark matter species with opposite dark $U(1)$ charges and an asymmetric population comprising some fraction of the dark matter abundance. A new mechanism for boosting dark matter is introduced,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-02 Michael Geller , Zamir Heller-Algazi

Several astrophysical and cosmological observations suggest the existence of dark matter (DM) through its gravitational effects, yet its nature remains elusive. Despite the lack of DM signals from direct detection experiments, efforts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Aman Gupta , Pooja Bhattacharjee , Pratik Majumdar

We analyze the correlations between central dark matter (DM) content of early-type galaxies and their sizes and ages, using a sample of intermediate-redshift (z ~ 0.2) gravitational lenses from the SLACS survey, and by comparing them to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Tortora , N. R. Napolitano , A. J. Romanowsky , Ph. Jetzer

We have proposed that the first phase of stellar evolution in the history of the Universe may be Dark Stars (DS), powered by dark matter heating rather than by nuclear fusion, and in this paper we examine the history of these DS. The power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Douglas Spolyar , Peter Bodenheimer , Katherine Freese , Palo Gondolo

Mirror Dark Matter (MDM) has been considered as an elegant framework for a particle theory of Dark Matter (DM). It is supposed that there exists a dark sector which is mirror of the ordinary matter. Some MDM models allow particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-26 Itzhak Goldman

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

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

Dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles is predicted to become gravitationally captured and accumulate in stars. While the subsequent annihilations of such particles lead to the injection of energy into stellar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Dan Hooper , Douglas Spolyar , Alberto Vallinotto , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We present high resolution CO(1-0) interferometric observations and deep HST B-V-I images of the flocculent isolated Sc type spiral NGC 4414. The goal is to determine the stellar mass-to-light (M/L) ratio in a galactic disk. The stars are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Vallejo , J. Braine , A. Baudry