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Ground-based radio telescopes are routinely used to search for light dark matter (DM) candidates such as axion-like particles or dark photons. These instruments face however inherent limitations to push the searches to masses below…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Ruben Zatini , Francesca Calore , Pasquale Dario Serpico

We investigate the use of next generation radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to detect axion two-photon coupling in the astrophysical environment. The uncertainty surrounding astrophysical magnetic fields presents new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Katharine Kelley , P. J. Quinn

The search for axions has gained ground in recent years, with laboratory searches for cold dark matter (CDM) axions, relativistic solar axions and ultra-light axions the subject of extensive literature. In particular, the interest in axions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-07 Katharine Kelley , P. J. Quinn

Relativistic axions produced in decays of ${\mathcal O}(10^{-7}-10^{-2}$ $\text{eV})$ dark matter (DM) partially convert to photons after traversing the galactic magnetic field, giving rise to a signal observable by the Square Kilometer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-23 Arpan Kar , Tanmoy Kumar , Sourov Roy , Jure Zupan

We study the conditions for the adiabatic resonant conversion of the cold dark matter (CDM) axions into photons in existence of the astrophysically sourced strong magnetic fields such as those in the neutron star magnetosphere. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Fa Peng Huang , Kenji Kadota , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Hiroyuki Tashiro

We show that axion dark matter (DM) may be detectable through narrow radio lines emitted from neutron stars. The neutron star magnetosphere hosts a strong magnetic field and a plasma frequency that increases towards the neutron star…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Anson Hook , Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin R. Safdi , Zhiquan Sun

Axion as one of the promising dark matter candidates can be detected through narrow radio lines emitted from the magnetic white dwarf stars. Due to the existence of the strong magnetic field, the axion may resonantly convert into the radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Jin-Wei Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Run-Min Yao , Peng-Fei Yin

Ultralight axions and dark photons are well-motivated dark matter candidates. Inside the plasma, once the mass of ultralight dark matter candidates equals the plasma frequency, they can resonantly convert into electromagnetic waves, due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-04 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Jia Liu

It has been suggested that radio telescopes may be sensitive to axion dark matter that resonantly converts to radio photons in the magnetospheres surrounding neutron stars (NSs). In this work, we closely examine this possibility by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Benjamin R. Safdi , Zhiquan Sun , Alexander Y. Chen

A model is constructed to predict the emission originating from axion-to-photon conversion in the strongly magnetized ultrarelativistic plasma of neutron stars. The acceleration and multiplicity of the charges are observed to shift the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-20 Javier De Miguel

Axions provide a natural and well-motivated dark matter candidate, with the capability to convert directly to photons in the presence of an electromagnetic field. A particularly compelling observational target is the conversion of dark…

We study the extent to which the decay of cold dark matter axions can be probed with forthcoming radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). In particular we focus on signals arising from dwarf spheroidal galaxies, where…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Andrea Caputo , Carlos Peña Garay , Samuel J. Witte

The potential to detect axion dark matter through astrophysical processes has shown high promise in recent years. We therefore expand on previous work studying the axion-to-photon conversion efficacy of neutron stars and the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Felix Weber , Vikram Ravi

We propose a new method to detect observational appearance of Dark Matter axions. The method utilizes observations of neutron stars (NSs) in radio. It is based on the conversion of axions to photons in strong magnetic fields of NSs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. S. Pshirkov , S. B. Popov

Axion dark matter can be converted into photons in the magnetospheres of neutron stars leading to a spectral line centred on the Compton wavelength of the axion. Due to the rotation of the star and the plasma effects in the magnetosphere…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 R. A. Battye , M. J. Keith , J. I. McDonald , S. Srinivasan , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede

We investigate a novel technique for the astrophysical detection of axions or axion-like particles in the dark matter halo of the Milky Way based on stimulated decay of axions, which we call axion gegenschein emission. Photons from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-07 Oindrila Ghosh , Jordi Salvado , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

Axions are well-motivated candidates for dark matter. Recently, much interest has focused on the detection of photons produced by the resonant conversion of axion dark matter in neutron star magnetospheres. Various groups have begun to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 R. A. Battye , B. Garbrecht , J. I. McDonald , S. Srinivasan

Dark photon as an ultralight dark matter candidate can interact with the Standard Model particles via kinetic mixing. We propose to search for the ultralight dark photon dark matter using radio telescopes with solar observations. The dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-07 Haipeng An , Fa Peng Huang , Jia Liu , Wei Xue

Assuming axion-like particles account for the entirety of the dark matter in the Universe, we study the possibility of detecting their decay into photons at radio frequencies. We discuss different astrophysical targets, such as dwarf…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 A. Caputo , M. Regis , M. Taoso , S. J. Witte

Axion-like particles (ALPs), hypothetical extensions of the Standard Model, can convert into photons in an external magnetic field. Two recent studies~\cite{Todarello:2023ptf, Ruz:2024gkl} explored the phenomenology of ALP-photon conversion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Elisa Todarello
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