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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

We study the thermal evolution of neutron stars in the presence of hyperons or kaons in the core. Our results indicate that the nucleon and hyperon direct Urca processes play crucial roles for the cooling of neutron stars. The presence of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-09 Yeunhwan Lim , Chang Ho Hyun , Chang-Hwan Lee

Neutrino emission from the dense hadronic component in neutron stars is subject to strong modifications due to collective effects in the nuclear medium. We implement new estimates of the neutrino emissivities of two processes operating in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Ch. Schaab , D. Voskresensky , A. D. Sedrakian , F. Weber , M. K. Weigel

Neutron stars can provide new insight into dark matter properties, as these dense objects capture dark matter particles very efficiently. It has recently been shown that the energy transfer in the dark matter capture process can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-13 Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Sandra Robles

Dark matter (DM) may be captured around a neutron star (NS) through DM-nucleon interactions. We observe that the enhancement of such capturing is particularly significant when the DM velocity and/or momentum transfer depend on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-11 Chih-Ting Lu , Arvind Kumar Mishra , Lei Wu

{We present a study of neutron star models that contain dark matter (DM) in the core. The DM is assumed to have a particle nature and to be self-interacting. Using constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wasif Husain , Anthony W. Thomas

An old neutron star (NS) may capture halo dark matter (DM) and get heated up by the deposited kinetic energy, thus behaving like a thermal DM detector with sensitivity to a wide range of DM masses and a variety of DM-quark interactions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Wai-Yee Keung , Danny Marfatia , Po-Yan Tseng

In this work we revisit the thermal relaxation process for neutron stars. Such process is associated with the thermal coupling between the core and the crust of neutron stars. The thermal relaxation, which takes place at around 10 -- 100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Thiago Sales , Odilon Lourenço , Mariana Dutra , Rodrigo Negreiros

Neutron stars represent unique laboratories, offering insights into the physics of supranuclear-density matter and serving as potential hosts for dark matter. This study explores the impact of dark matter cores on rapidly rotating neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Andreas Konstantinou

The thermal evolution of isothermal neutron stars is studied with matter both in the hadronic phase as well as in the mixed phase of hadronic matter and strange quark matter. In our models, the dominant early-stage cooling process is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-09 Shaoyu Yin , J. J. R. M. van Heugten , Jeroen Diederix , Maarten Kater , Jacco Vink , H. T. C. Stoof

This thesis explores the effects of dark matter (DM) on neutron stars (NSs) using the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model. The effects of DM on NS properties, including the mass-radius relation, the moment of inertia, and tidal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 H. C. Das

There are many factors that contribute to the breaking of the spherical symmetry of a neutron star. Most notably is rotation, magnetic fields, and/or accretion of matter from companion stars. All these phenomena influence the macroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-31 Rodrigo Negreiros , Stefan Schramm , Fridolin Weber

Thermal evolution of neutron stars is studied in the $f(R)=R+\alpha R^{2}$ theory of gravity. We first describe the equations of stellar structure and evolution for a spherically symmetric spacetime plus a perfect fluid at rest. We then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-08 Martín Nava-Callejas , Dany Page , Mikhail V. Beznogov

The strong gravitational pull of the neutron star leads to the accretion of dark matter (DM) inside the core of the neutron star. The accretion of DM affects the bulk properties of the neutron star. Here, we study how the accretion of WIMP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Rashmita Jena , Padmalaya Dash , S. K. Biswal

The impact of energy exchange among the relevant fluid components: baryonic matter, fermionic dark matter (DM), and dark energy (DE) on the internal structure of neutron stars is investigated. Using a representative DM mass $m_{\chi} = 10$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 L. F. Araujo , G. Lugones , J. A. S. Lima

This review demonstrates that neutrino emission from dense hadronic component in neutron stars is subject of strong modifications due to collective effects in the nuclear matter. With the most important in-medium processes incorporated in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Dmitri N. Voskresensky

Thermal evolution of neutron stars is known to depend on the properties of superdense matter in neutron star cores. We suggest a statistical analysis of isolated cooling middle-aged neutron stars and old transiently accreting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-16 M. V. Beznogov , D. G. Yakovlev

A promising probe to unmask particle dark matter is to observe its effect on neutron stars, the prospects of which depend critically on whether captured dark matter thermalizes in a timely manner with the stellar core via repeated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Raghuveer Garani , Aritra Gupta , Nirmal Raj

The density dependence of the symmetry energy in relativistic mean-field models with density dependent couplings is discussed in terms of the possible opening of nucleonic direct Urca processes inside neutron stars, which induce a very…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-27 Olfa Boukari , Tuhin Malik , Aziz Rabhi , Constança Providência

We study the thermal evolution of hypernuclear compact stars constructed from covariant density functional theory of hypernuclear matter and parameterizations which produce sequences of stars containing two-solar-mass objects. For the input…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Adriana R. Raduta , Armen Sedrakian , Fridolin Weber