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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 the dark matter effects on the nuclear matter parameters characterising the equation of states of super dense neutron-rich nucleonic-matter. The observables of the nuclear matter, i.e. incompressibility, symmetry energy and its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , Takashi Nakatsukasa , Ang Li , S. K. Patra

Neutron stars offer powerful astrophysical laboratories to probe the properties of dark matter. Gradual accumulation of heavy, non-annihilating dark matter in neutron stars can lead to the formation of comparable-mass black holes, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Anupam Ray

The tidal deformability and the radius of neutron stars are observables, which have been used to constrain the neutron star equation of state and explore the composition in neutron stars. We investigated the radius and tidal deformability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-06 Hongyi Sun , Dehua Wen

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

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

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

We study the impact of bosonic, self-interacting dark matter on structural properties and tidal deformabilities of compact stars. As far as the gravitational theory is concerned, we assume Einstein's gravity in four dimensions with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Takol Tangphati , Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ayan Banerjee , Anirudh Pradhan

Millisecond pulsars, representing the older neutron star population, are believed to have undergone a prolonged period of dark matter accumulation, resulting in a higher dark matter content. Their extreme rotation makes them unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-27 Lorenzo Cipriani , Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

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

Dark matter search strategies have started advancing towards the neutrino fog. In this regard, compact objects such as neutron stars have already demonstrated their ability in probing such low DM-nucleon cross-sections from dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Sambo Sarkar

In this work we investigate the tidal deformability of a neutron star admixed with dark matter, modeled as a massive, self-interacting, complex scalar field. We derive the equations to compute the tidal deformability of the full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-25 Robin Fynn Diedrichs , Niklas Becker , Cédric Jockel , Jan-Erik Christian , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Dark matter could accumulate around neutron stars in sufficient amounts to affect their global properties. In this work, we study the effect of a specific model for dark matter -- a massive and self-interacting vector (spin-1) field -- on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Cédric Jockel , Laura Sagunski

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

The dark matter in neutron stars can exist from the lifetime of the progenitor or captured by this compact object. The properties of dark matter entered the neutron stars through each step could be different from each other. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Zeinab Rezaei

The effect of dark matter (DM) on $f$-mode oscillations in DM admixed neutron stars (NSs) is investigated in a comprehensive analysis with particular attention to the role of the nuclear equation of state. Hadronic matter is modeled by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 Swarnim Shirke , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

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

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

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

Dark matter, one of the important portion of the universe, could affect the visible matter in neutron stars. An important physical feature of dark matter is due to the spin of dark matter particles. Here, applying the piecewise polytropic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-19 Zeinab Rezaei