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We investigate the effect of feeble interaction of dark matter (DM) with hadronic matter on the equation of state (EoS) and structural properties of neutron stars (NSs) in static conditions. For the purpose we adopt the effective chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Debashree Sen , Atanu Guha

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a promising candidate for dark matter, characterized by its ultra-light mass, which gives rise to wave effects at astrophysical scales. These effects offer potential solutions to the small-scale issues encountered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Hamed Manouchehri Kousha , Mohammad Ansarifard , Aliakbar Abolhasani

The equation of state (EoS) for cold dense matter inside neutron stars is investigated by using holographic QCD models in the framework of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton (EMD) system and the improved Karch-Katz-Son-Stephanov (KKSS) action for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Lin Zhang , Mei Huang

The nature of dark matter remains a central question in cosmology, with fuzzy dark matter (FDM) models offering a compelling alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. We explore FDM scenarios by performing 21-cm simulations across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bahareh Soleimanpour Salmasi , S. Mobina Hosseini

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) made of ultra-light bosonic particles is a viable alternative to cold dark matter (CDM) with clearly distinguishable small-scale features in collapsed structures. On large scales, it behaves gravitationally like CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Bodo Schwabe , Jens C. Niemeyer

A very light boson of mass $\mathcal{O}(10^{-22})$ eV may potentially be a viable dark matter (DM) candidate which can avoid phenomenological problems associated with cold DM. Such "fuzzy DM (FDM)" may naturally be an axion with a decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-12 Hooman Davoudiasl , Christopher W. Murphy

We investigate the influence of ideal Fermi gas dark matter on the observable properties of neutron stars (NSs). Our analysis considers dark matter (DM) particle masses ($\mu$) ranging from $0.2$ GeV to $1$ GeV and various DM mass fractions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Monmoy Molla , Masum Murshid , Mehedi Kalam

In fuzzy dark matter (FDM) cosmologies, the dark matter consists of ultralight bosons ($m\lesssim10^{-20}$ eV). The astrophysically large de Broglie wavelengths of such particles hinder the formation of low-mass dark matter halos. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Jackson Sipple , Adam Lidz , Daniel Grin , Guochao Sun

The recent observation of the pulsar PSR J1614-2230 with a mass of 1.97 +/- 0.04 M_sun gives a strong constraint on the quark and nuclear matter equations of state (EoS). We explore the parameter ranges for a parameterized EoS for quark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-11 Simon Weissenborn , Irina Sagert , Giuseppe Pagliara , Matthias Hempel , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Gravitational weak lensing by dark matter halos leads to a measurable imprint in the shear correlation function of galaxies. Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight axion-like particles of mass $m\sim 10^{-22}\text{ eV}$, suppresses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Mona Dentler , David J. E. Marsh , Renée Hložek , Alex Laguë , Keir K. Rogers , Daniel Grin

An intriguing alternative to cold dark matter (CDM) is that the dark matter is a light ( $m \sim 10^{-22}$ eV) boson having a de Broglie wavelength $\lambda \sim 1$ kpc, often called fuzzy dark matter (FDM). We describe the arguments from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Lam Hui , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Scott Tremaine , Edward Witten

Neutron star observations, including direct mass and radius measurements as well as the analysis of gravitational wave signals emitted by stellar mergers, provide valuable and unique insights into the properties of strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Aleksi Vuorinen

We model the 21cm power spectrum across the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in fuzzy dark matter (FDM) cosmologies. The suppression of small mass halos in FDM models leads to a delay in the onset redshift of these epochs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Dana Jones , Skyler Palatnick , Richard Chen , Angus Beane , Adam Lidz

We investigate anisotropic compact stars comprising two non-interacting fluids: quark matter and condensed dark matter. Using the MIT Bag model equation of state for quark matter and Bose-Einstein Condensate equation of state for dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 G. Panotopoulos , A. Rincón , I. Lopes

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

For the first time, we analyze the impact of dark matter (DM) on the curvature properties of quarkyonic neutron stars (NS) using a hybrid model based on quarkyonic-effective field theory within the relativistic mean-field (E-RMF) framework.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , D. Dey , R. N. Panda , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

Dark matter may accumulate in neutron stars given its gravitational interaction and abundance. We investigate the influence of strongly-interacting dark matter, described by a QCD-like one-flavor $G_2$ gauge theory, on neutron stars. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-08 Yannick Dengler , Suchita Kulkarni , Axel Maas , Kevin Radl

Abundance matching between galaxies and halos has proven to be an informative technique, less dependent on detailed physical approximations than some other methods. We extend the discussion to the dwarf galaxies realm and to the study of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Pierre Cristofari , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We investigate the impact of a hypothetical bosonic dark matter (DM) candidate, the sexaquark, on the fundamental ($f$-mode) oscillations of neutron stars (NSs). By varying the DM particle mass and considering different core compositions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Mahboubeh Shahrbaf , Prashant Thakur , Davood Rafiei Karkevandi

The equation of state (EoS) of hot and dense matter is a fundamental input to describe static and dynamical properties of neutron stars, core-collapse supernovae and binary compact-star mergers. We review the current status of the EoS for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 G. Fiorella Burgio , Anthea F. Fantina