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Axion Like Particles (ALPs) can be produced in Gamma Ray Bursts, altering the polarization of the electromagnetic emission in these events. For the first time, we derive bounds on the axion-photon coupling from polarization measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Nissim Fraija , Gonzalo Herrera

In this work we revisit five different point sources within or behind galaxy clusters in order to constrain the coupling constant between axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons. We use three distinct machine learning (ML) techniques and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Simon Schallmoser , Sven Krippendorf , Francesca Chadha-Day , Jochen Weller

Axion is one of the most popular candidates of the cosmological dark matter. Recent studies considering the misalignment production of axions suggest some benchmark axion mass ranges near $m_a \sim 20$ $\mu$eV. For such axion mass, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Man Ho Chan

The unprecedented quality of the asteroseismic data of solar-type stars made available by space missions such as NASA's Kepler telescope are making it possible to explore stellar interior structures. This offers possibilities of…

Stellar models provide a vital basis for many aspects of astronomy and astrophysics. Recent advances in observational astronomy -- through asteroseismology, precision photometry, high-resolution spectroscopy, and large-scale surveys -- are…

Axions can be copiously produced in localized regions of neutron star magnetospheres where the ambient plasma is unable to efficiently screen the induced electric field. As these axions stream away from the neutron star they can resonantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dion Noordhuis , Anirudh Prabhu , Samuel J. Witte , Alexander Y. Chen , Fábio Cruz , Christoph Weniger

We have searched for axions which could be produced in the solar core by exploiting their conversion to X rays in a strong laboratory magnetic field. The signature of the solar axion is an increase in the rate of the X rays detected in a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Shigetaka Moriyama , Makoto Minowa , Toshio Namba , Yoshizumi Inoue , Yuko Takasu , Akira Yamamoto

We update the globular cluster bound on massive ($m_a$ up to a few 100 keV) axion-like particles (ALP) interacting with photons. The production of such particles in the stellar core is dominated by the Primakoff $\gamma + Ze\to Ze +a$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 Pierluca Carenza , Oscar Straniero , Babette Döbrich , Maurizio Giannotti , Giuseppe Lucente , Alessandro Mirizzi

Axion-photon oscillation effect provides a possible explanation for the presence of very-high-energy (VHE) $\gamma$-ray signals from distant sources. In this work, we propose a model-dependent method to select possible sources that may give…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-14 Yu-Chong Chen , Siyu Chen , Wei-Cong Huang , Qing Yang , Hong-Hao Zhang

If dark matter is composed of axions, then axion stars form in the cores of dark matter halos. These stars are unstable above a critical mass, decaying to radio photons that heat the intergalactic medium, offering a new channel for axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Miguel Escudero , Charis Kaur Pooni , Malcolm Fairbairn , Diego Blas , Xiaolong Du , David J. E. Marsh

We constrain the coupling of thermally-produced axion-like particles (here axions) with photons and gluons, using data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectra and baryon acoustic oscillations. The axion possesses an explicit soft…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-12 Luca Caloni , Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Luca Visinelli

Asteroseismology of solar-type stars is an important tool for constraining stellar parameters and internal structure. Several frequency combinations are largely used for comparisons between models and observations. In particular, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Soriano , S. Vauclair

If axions exist, they are copiously produced in hot and dense plasmas, carrying away energy directly from the interior of stars. Various astronomical observables constrain the operation of such anomalous stellar energy-loss channels and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Raffelt

In interstellar media characterized by a nonrelativistic plasma of electrons and heavy ions, we study the effect of axion dark matter coupled to photons on the dynamics of an electric field. In particular, we assume the presence of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Makoto Amakawa , Tomohiro Fujita , Shinji Tsujikawa

We present a novel method for incorporating the effects of stellar modeling uncertainties into constraints on the axion-electron coupling constant found using the observed calibration of the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) I band…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Mitchell T. Dennis , Jeremy Sakstein

We apply novel, recently developed plasma ray-tracing techniques to model the propagation of radio photons produced by axion dark matter in neutron star magnetospheres and combine this with both archival and new data for the galactic centre…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-13 R. A. Battye , J. Darling , J. McDonald , S. Srinivasan

Asteroseismology, i.e. the study of the internal structures of stars via their global oscillations, is a valuable tool to obtain stellar parameters such as mass, radius, surface gravity and mean density. These parameters can be obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Hekker , Y. Elsworth , S. Basu , A. Mazumdar , V. Silva Aguirre , W. J. Chaplin

We investigate solar X-ray observations as a probe of axions and axion-like particles. These particles can be produced in the interior of the Sun via the conversion of thermal photons, as well as through processes involving axion-electron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Tiziano Zanzarella , Francisco R. Candón , Maurizio Giannotti , Marco Regis , Jaime Ruz , Marco Taoso , Elisa Todarello , Julia K. Vogel

Astronomy is in an era where all-sky surveys are mapping the Galaxy. The plethora of photometric, spectroscopic, asteroseismic and astrometric data allows us to characterise the comprising stars in detail. Here we quantify to what extent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 George C. Angelou , Earl P. Bellinger , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu

Distances from the Gaia mission will no doubt improve our understanding of stellar physics by providing an excellent constraint on the luminosity of the star. However, it is also clear that high precision stellar properties from, for…

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