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We investigate the impact of asymmetric fermionic dark matter (DM) on the thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs), considering a scenario where DM interacts with baryonic matter (BM) through gravity. Employing the two-fluid formalism, our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Edoardo Giangrandi , Afonso Ávila , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência

Neutron stars (NSs) provide a unique laboratory to probe dark matter (DM) through its gravitational imprint on stellar evolution. We use a two-fluid framework with non-annihilating, asymmetric DM, both fermionic and bosonic, that interacts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-16 Adamu Issifu , Prashant Thakur , Davood Rafiei Karkevandi , Franciele M. da Silva , Débora P. Menezes , Y. Lim , Tobias Frederico

This work investigates the impact of mirror dark matter (DM) on the global properties of rotating neutron stars (NSs) across evolutionary stages, from hot, lepton-rich protoneutron stars (PNSs) to cold, catalyzed NSs along the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-27 Adamu Issifu , Andreas Konstantinou , Prashant Thakur , Tobias Frederico

We study the cooling of isolated dark-matter-admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear equation of state and realistic nuclear pairing gaps, together with fermionic dark matter of variable particle mass and dark-matter fraction.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 B. X. Zhou , H. C. Das , J. B. Wei , G. F. Burgio , Z. H. Li , H. -J. Schulze

We study how many-body effects alter the dark matter (DM) thermalization time inside neutron stars. We find that Pauli blocking, kinematic constraints, and superfluidity and superconductivity in the neutron star significantly affect the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Bridget Bertoni , Ann E. Nelson , Sanjay Reddy

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

Dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant open questions in modern physics, with its nature and interactions largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the behavior of massive fermionic DM particles in the context of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Jianyuan Luo , Dicong Liang , Lijing Shao

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

We study thermal evolution of isolated neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories for the first time. Whether the rapid cooling due to the direct Urca process occurs or not is an interesting question in the viewpoint of the temperature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-27 Akira Dohi , Ryotaro Kase , Rampei Kimura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Masa-aki Hashimoto

We propose a model of asymmetric bosonic dark matter (DM) with self-repulsion mediated by the vector field coupled to the complex scalar particles. By adopting the two-fluid formalism, we study different DM distribution regimes, either,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência , Tim Dietrich

In the framework of relativistic mean field theory, the relativistic neutrino emissivity of the nucleonic and hyperonic direct Urca processes in the degenerate baryon matter of neutron stars are studied. We investigate particularly the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Xiu-Lin Huang , Hai-Jun Wang , Guang-Zhou Liu , Yan Xu

We study the interaction between dark matter (DM) and highly magnetized neutron stars (NSs), focusing on how DM particle mass, mass fraction, and magnetic field (MF) strength affect NS structure and stability. We consider self-interacting,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Pinku Routaray , Vishal Parmar , H. C. Das , Bharat Kumar , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

By assuming that only gravitation exists between dark matter (DM) and normal matter (NM), we study the effects of fermionic DM on the properties of neutron stars using the two-fluid Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff formalism. It is found that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Qian-Fei Xiang , Wei-Zhou Jiang , Dong-Rui Zhang , Rong-Yao Yang

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

This work investigates the impact of dark matter (DM) on the microscopic and macroscopic properties of proto-neutron stars (PNSs). We employ a single-fluid framework in which DM interacts with ordinary matter (OM) via the Higgs portal and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 Adamu Issifu , Débora P. Menezes , Tobias Frederico

Thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs) is studied as a probe of physics beyond the standard model. We first review the standard cooling theory of NSs in detail, with an emphasis on the roles of nucleon superfluidity. Then we discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-19 Keisuke Yanagi

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

Differential rotation between the neutron star crust and a more rapidly rotating interior superfluid leads to frictional heating that affects the star's long-term thermal evolution and resulting surface emission. Here we present the results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Van Riper , B. Link , R. Epstein

We investigate the structural and observable impacts of dark matter (DM) on neutron stars using a combined equation of state that integrates the relativistic mean field (RMF) model for baryonic matter with a variable density profile for DM,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

The neutron star properties are generally determined by the equation of state of $\beta$-equilibrated dense matter. In this work, we consider the interaction of fermionic dark matter (DM) particles with the nucleons via Higgs exchange and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Patra
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