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Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) has recently emerged as an interesting alternative model to the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM). In this model, dark matter consists of very light bosonic particles with quantum mechanical effects on galactic scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Sana Elgamal , Matteo Nori , Andrea V. Macciò , Marco Baldi , Stefan Waterval

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a compelling candidate for dark matter, offering a natural explanation for the structure of diffuse low-mass haloes. However, the canonical FDM model with a mass of $10^{-22}~{\rm eV}$ encounters challenges in…

The current observational properties of neutron stars have not definitively ruled out the possibility of dark matter. In this study, we primarily focus on exploring correlations between the dark matter model parameters and different neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Prashant Thakur , Tuhin Malik , Arpan Das , T. K. Jha , Constança Providência

We explore the imprints of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) on the redshifted 21~cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization by employing the wavelet scattering transform (WST). FDM, composed of ultralight scalar particles with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hayato Shimabukuro , Shihang Liu , Bohua Li

Dark matter may be composed of ultra-light bosons whose de Broglie wavelength in galaxies is of order 1 kpc. The standard model for this fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a complex scalar field that obeys the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equations. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Boris Zupancic , Lawrence M. Widrow

We present an in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of dynamical friction in a universe where the dark matter is composed entirely of so-called Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), ultralight bosons of mass $m\sim\mathcal{O}(10^{-22})\,$eV. We review…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Lachlan Lancaster , Cara Giovanetti , Philip Mocz , Yonatan Kahn , Mariangela Lisanti , David N. Spergel

The possibility of formation of a droplet phase (DP) inside a star and its consequences on the structural properties of the star are investigated. For nuclear matter (NM), an equation of state (EOS) based on finite range, momentum and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 V. S. Uma Maheswari , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is one of the recent models for dark matter. According to this model, dark matter is made of very light scalar particles with considerable quantum mechanical effects on the galactic scale, which solves many problems…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 Alireza Maleki , Shant Baghram , Sohrab Rahvar

We investigate the structural and physical properties of a strange star admixed with self-interacting bosonic dark matter. The total energy density is modelled as a weighted combination of quark matter and dark matter components regulated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Samstuti Chanda , Ranjan Sharma

Compact stars consisting of massless quark matter and fermionic dark matter are studied by solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for two fluids separately. Dark matter is further investigated by incorporating inter-fermionic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Payel Mukhopadhyay , Juregen Schaffner-Bielich

Dark matter admixed neutron stars (DANSs) serve as a specific astrophysical laboratory for probing the features of dark matter (DM) and have emerged as a promising candidate for interpreting recent astrophysical observations (e.g., by NICER…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Jing Fu Hu , Hang Lu , Bao Yuan Sun

We investigate realistic models of compact objects, focusing on neutron and strange stars, composed by dense matter and dark energy in the form of a simple fluid or scalar field interacting with matter. For the dark energy component, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-01 Artyom V. Astashenok , Sergey D. Odintsov , Vasilis K. Oikonomou

The equation of state (EOS) for neutron stars is modeled using the Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) approach with a mesonic nonlinear (NL) interaction, a modified sigma cut potential (NL-$\sigma$ cut), and the influences of dark matter in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Prashant Thakur , Tuhin Malik , Arpan Das , T. K. Jha , B. K. Sharma , Constança Providência

Dark matter (DM) continues to evade direct detection, but neutron stars (NSs) serve as natural laboratories where even a modest DM component can alter their structure. While many studies have examined DM effects on NSs, they often rely on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Xue-Zhi Liu , Premachand Mahapatra , Chun Huang , Ayush Hazarika , Chiranjeeb Singha , Prasanta Kumar Das

Ab initio methods using weakly interacting nucleons give a good description of condensed nuclear matter up to densities comparable to the nuclear saturation density. At higher densities palpable strong interactions between overlapping…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Niko Jokela , Matti Jarvinen , Govert Nijs , Jere Remes

We present the basic equations and relations for the relativistic static spherically symmetric stars (SSSS) in the model of minimal dilatonic gravity (MDG) which is {\em locally} equivalent to the f(R) theories of gravity and gives an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-05 Plamen Fiziev

Neutron stars could contain a mixture of ordinary nuclear matter and dark matter, such that dark matter could influence observable properties of the star, such as its mass and radius. We study these dark matter admixed neutron stars for two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-09 Ben Kain

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

The equation of state (EoS) of neutron star matter, constrained by the existence of two-solar-mass stars and gravitational wave signals from neutron star mergers, is analysed using the Landau theory of relativistic Fermi liquids. While the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-01 Bengt Friman , Wolfram Weise

We construct the equation of state (EOS) in a wide density range for neutron stars using the relativistic mean field theory. The properties of neutron star matter with both uniform and non-uniform distributions are studied consistently. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Shen