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In this study, we investigate the influence of an admixed fermionic dark matter (DM) component on the equilibrium structure of white dwarfs (WDs), with particular emphasis on the effects of varying the DM particle mass ($m_{\rm DM}$) and DM…

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Gravitational-wave observations provide a unique window into the fundamental nature of massive objects. In particular, neutron star equations of state have been constrained due to the success of gravitational wave observatories. Recently,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Nguyen Thi Lan Anh , Peter Lott , Quynh Lan Nguyen

In this work we show how the inclusion of dark matter (DM) direct detection upper bounds in a theoretically consistent manner can affect the allowed parameter space of a DM model. Traditionally, the limits from DM direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-14 Cristina Marcos , Miguel Peiro , Sandra Robles

We studied the possible presence of dark matter (DM) in neutron stars (NSs) and the structural properties of the DM admixed NSs (DMANSs) in one of our recent works \cite{Guha:2024pnn}. The feeble interaction between the fermionic DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-14 Debashree Sen , Atanu Guha

The density dependencies of various effective interaction strengths in the relativistic mean field are studied and carefully compared for nuclear matter and neutron stars. The influences of different density dependencies are presented and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. F. Ban , J. Li , S. Q. Zhang , H. Y. Jia , J. P. Sang , J. Meng

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

It is possible for asymmetric dark matter (ADM) to accumulate in neutron star interiors and affect their global properties. Considering the effects of this accumulation, neutron star mass-radius measurements can deliver new insights into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Nathan Rutherford , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Anna Watts

The discoveries of anomalous compact objects challenge our understanding of the standard theory of stellar structures and evolution. They serve as an excellent laboratory to search for new physics. Earlier studies on spherically symmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 H-S. Chan , M-C. Chu , S-C. Leung

Theoretical models of self-interacting dark matter represent a promising answer to a series of open problems within the so-called collisionless cold dark matter (CCDM) paradigm. In case of asymmetric dark matter, self-interactions might…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Andrea Maselli , Pantelis Pnigouras , Niklas Gønlund Nielsen , Chris Kouvaris , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We consider the capture of dark matter (DM) in neutron stars via scattering on hadronic targets, including neutrons, protons and hyperons. We extend previous analyses by including momentum dependent form factors, which account for hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-24 Filippo Anzuini , Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Theo F. Motta , Sandra Robles , Anthony W. Thomas , Michael Virgato

A relativistic mean field hadronic model with a dark matter (DM) particle coupled to nucleons including short-range correlations (SRC) is applied to study neutron stars (NS). The lightest neutralino is chosen as the dark particle candidate,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-31 O. Lourenço , T. Frederico , M. Dutra

The effects of strong magnetic fields on the deconfinement phase transition expected to take place in the interior of massive neutron stars are studied in detail for the first time. For hadronic matter, the very general density-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-26 Ishfaq A. Rather , Asloob A. Rather , V. Dexheimer , Ilídio Lopes , A. A. Usmani , S. K. Patra

Driven by recent laboratory experiments and astronomical observations, significant advances have deepened our understanding of neutron-star physics. NICER's Pulse Profile Modeling has refined our knowledge of neutron star masses and radii,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Marc Salinas , Jorge Piekarewicz

We investigate the effects of dark scalar- and vector-mediated interactions on dark matter admixed neutron stars, employing the two-fluid formalism. We adopt three different nuclear equations of state -- BSk22, MPA1 and APR4 -- to describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Francesco Grippa , Gaetano Lambiase , Tanmay Kumar Poddar

In this study, we investigate the impact of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) dark matter (DM) on $C-\Lambda$ universal relations, GW170817 posterior and radial oscillations of neutron stars (NSs) by considering the interactions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-20 Pinku Routaray , Abdul Quddus , Kabir Chakravarti , Bharat Kumar

In this study, we investigate the impact of dark matter on the structure and deformation of magnetars. We assume a perturbative approach for the magnetic field deformation and that the dark matter only interacts gravitationally with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Asit karan , Anil Kumar , Monika Sinha , Ritam Mallick

We study axial quasi-normal modes of admixed neutron stars composed of ordinary nuclear matter and a self-interacting bosonic dark matter component. The equilibrium configurations are obtained by solving the coupled two-fluid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Hamza Boumaza , Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia

We study the influence of the temperature-dependent interaction between dark matter (DM) and neutrinos on the measurement of cosmological parameters. We pay attention to the neutrino mass effects, so that the derivation of Boltzmann…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Ren-Peng Zhou , Da Huang

Interactions between dark matter (DM) and radiation (photons or neutrinos) in the early Universe suppress density fluctuations on small mass scales. Here we perform a thorough analysis of structure formation in the fully non-linear regime…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 J. A. Schewtschenko , R. J. Wilkinson , C. M. Baugh , C. Boehm , S. Pascoli

The current observational properties of neutron stars have not definitively ruled out the possibility of dark matter. In this study, we primarily focus on exploring correlations between the dark matter model parameters and different neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Prashant Thakur , Tuhin Malik , Arpan Das , T. K. Jha , Constança Providência