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Proto-neutron stars are born when a highly evolved and massive star collapses under gravity. In this paper, we investigate the spontaneous scalarization in proto-neutron stars. Based on the scalar tensor theory of gravity as well as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Fahimeh Rahimi , Zeinab Rezaei

Scalar-tensor gravity models are among the prime candidates to explain cosmic acceleration, and compact stars provide unique laboratories for testing such theories. Predictions of scalar-tensor gravity in compact stars can be examined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Fahimeh Rahimi , Zeinab Rezaei , Adamu Issifu

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

We study the effects of dark matter on the structural properties of neutron stars. In particular we investigate how the presence of a dark matter component influences the mass-radius relation, the value of the maximum mass of a neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Domenico Scordino , Ignazio Bombaci

We study how many-body effects alter the dark matter (DM) thermalization time inside neutron stars. We find that Pauli blocking, kinematic constraints, and superfluidity and superconductivity in the neutron star significantly affect the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Bridget Bertoni , Ann E. Nelson , Sanjay Reddy

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

We study neutron star configurations in a teleparallel gravity model featuring a scalar field coupled to both matter and torsion. In the Einstein frame, the theory includes a derivative coupling between the scalar field and the torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Youcef Kehal , Khireddine Nouicer

We identify a class of scalar-tensor theories with coupling between the scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant that exhibit spontaneous scalarization for both black holes and compact stars. In particular, these theories formally admit all of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Hector O. Silva , Jeremy Sakstein , Leonardo Gualtieri , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Emanuele Berti

In scalar-tensor theories, spontaneous scalarization is a phase transition that can occur in ultra-dense environments such as neutron stars. The scalar field develops a non-trivial configuration once the stars exceeds a compactness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-21 Nicola Franchini , Andrew Coates , Thomas P. Sotiriou

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

It is well known that neutron stars can undergo a phase transition under a certain class of Scalar Tensor Theories of gravity (STT's) where a new order parameter, the {\it scalar charge}, appears within the star. This is the well known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Juan Carlos Degollado , Marcelo Salgado , Miguel Alcubierre

Over the past two decades, significant strides have been made in the study of Dark Matter (DM) admixed neutron stars and their associated properties. However, an intriguing facet regarding the effect of DM on magnetized neutron stars still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Vishal Parmar , H. C. Das , M. K. Sharma , S. K. Patra

We examine the possibility that dark matter (DM) may be an ultralight scalar that was misaligned via non-minimal coupling to gravity, in the early Universe. For a certain regime of scalar masses, gravitational effects in neutron stars could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-27 Hooman Davoudiasl

We examine whether the accretion of dark matter onto neutron stars could ever have any visible external effects. Captured dark matter which subsequently annihilates will heat the neutron stars, although it seems the effect will be too small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-14 Arnaud de Lavallaz , Malcolm Fairbairn

Binary neutron star mergers provide insight into strong-field gravity and the properties of ultra-dense nuclear matter. These events offer the potential to search for signatures of physics beyond the standard model, including dark matter.…

We study the gravitational effect of non-self-annihilating dark matter on compact stellar objects. The self-interaction of condensate dark matter can give high accretion rate of dark matter onto stars. Phase transition to condensation state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-25 Xinyu Li , Fayin Wang , K. S. Cheng

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

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity are natural phenomenological alternatives to General Relativity, where the gravitational interaction is mediated by a scalar degree of freedom, besides the usual tensor gravitons. In regions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 Enrico Barausse , Carlos Palenzuela , Marcelo Ponce , Luis Lehner

We study the effects of dark matter on the properties of hybrid neutron stars, in particular the influence on the mass-radius relation, the value of the maximum mass, and the hadron-quark phase transition. To single out the equilibrium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Jin-Biao Wei , G. Wu , H. Chen , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

We systematically study the observable properties of dark-matter admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear EOS in combination with self-interacting fermionic dark matter respecting constraints on the self-interaction cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Hong-Ming Liu , Jin-Biao Wei , Zeng-Hua Li , G. F. Burgio , H. C. Das , H. -J. Schulze