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Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are exceptionally sensitive detectors in the frequency band $\text{nHz} \lesssim f \lesssim \mu\text{Hz}$. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with mass in the range $10^{-23}\,\text{eV} \lesssim m_\phi \lesssim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 David E. Kaplan , Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) offer an independent method for searching for ultralight dark matter (ULDM), whose wavelike nature induces periodic oscillations in the arrival times of radio pulses. In addition to this gravitational effect, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

The cold dark matter model successfully describes the Universe on large scales, yet faces challenges at sub-galactic scales. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with particle masses around $10^{-22} \mathrm{eV}$, offers a promising solution to…

Ultra-light Dark Matter (ULDM) models are suitable candidates for the cosmological Dark Matter that may leave characteristic imprints in many observables. Among other probes, signatures of ULDM can be searched for in pulsar timing data. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-22 Juan Manuel Armaleo , Diana López Nacir , Federico R. Urban

Metric perturbations induced by ultralight dark matter (ULDM) fields have long been identified as a potential target for pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. Previous works have focused on the coherent oscillation of metric perturbations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Hyungjin Kim , Andrea Mitridate

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is one of the leading well-motivated dark matter candidates, predicted in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics and cosmology. There have been increasing interests in searching for ULDM in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

Scalar dark matter is a viable alternative to particle dark matter models such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS). This is particularly the case for scalars with a low mass $m \gtrsim 10^{-21} {\rm eV}$ as required to make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) can detect disturbances in the fabric of spacetime on a galactic scale by monitoring the arrival time of pulses from millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Recent advancements have enabled the use of $\gamma$-ray radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-14 Hoang Nhan Luu , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Tom Broadhurst , Ruizhi Yang , Jie-Shuang Wang , Zhen Xie

Ultralight axionlike dark matter (ALDM) is a leading candidate in the dark matter realm, characterized by its prominent wave properties on astronomical scales. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and Pulsar polarization arrays (PPAs) aim to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ximeng Li , Yonghao Liu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Shi Dai , Boris Goncharov , Xiao-Song Hu , Qing-Guo Huang , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Yu-Mei Wu , Xiao Xue , Xingjiang Zhu

If dark matter consists of ultralight bosons, on galactic scales it can be effectively described as a coherent classical field experiencing oscillations. Such a field could perturb the dynamics of celestial bodies via a direct coupling to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Federico Huxhagen , Diana López Nacir

We investigate the impact of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) on the mergers of supermassive black holes (SMBH) and the resulting stochastic gravitational wave background. ULDM is based on exceptionally light particles and yields galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Shreyas Tiruvaskar , Russell Boey , Richard Easther , Chris Gordon

Spin-2 ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is a viable dark matter candidate and it can be constrained using gravitational wave (GW) observations. In this paper, we investigate the detectability of spin-2 ULDM by space-based GW interferometers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Jing-Rui Zhang , Ju Chen , Heng-Sen Jiao , Rong-Gen Cai , Yun-Long Zhang

Ultralight particles are theoretically well-motivated dark matter candidates. In the vicinity of the solar system, these ultralight particles can be described as a superposition of plane waves, resulting in a stochastic field with sizable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Yue-Hui Yao , Yong Tang

We examine the capability of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to detect very small-scale clumps of dark matter (DM), which are a natural outcome of the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. A clump streaming near the Earth or a pulsar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Kazumi Kashiyama , Masamune Oguri

Supermassive black hole binary mergers serve as prominent sources of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). If dark matter-induced friction is present in the vicinity of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Pratick Sarkar

The nature of dark matter remains obscure in spite of decades of experimental efforts. The mass of dark matter candidates can span a wide range, and its coupling with the Standard Model sector remains uncertain. All these unknowns make the…

Ultralight Dark Matter (ULDM) offers an alternative to cold dark matter, characterized by wavelike behavior on galactic scales. This contribution summarizes our work~\cite{Blas:2024duy} on how solitonic cores induced by ULDM affect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Silvia Gasparotto

The nature of dark matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern physics. In this work, we investigate the phenomenological implications of ultralight scalar dark matter (ULDM) coupled to neutrinos. We focus on a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Luis A. Delgadillo , O. G. Miranda , Hiroshi Nunokawa

We conduct the first-ever Pulsar Polarization Array (PPA) analysis to detect the ultralight Axion-Like Dark Matter (ALDM) using the polarization data of 22 millisecond pulsars from the third data release of Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. As…

Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently reported evidence of stochastic gravitational waves. Besides gravitational wave signals from cosmological or astrophysical origins, PTAs are also capable of detecting coherently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Qing-Hua Zhu
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