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We study the ultralight vector dark matter with a mass around $10^{-23}\,\mathrm{eV}$. The vector field oscillating coherently on galactic scales induces oscillations of the spacetime metric with a frequency around nHz, which is detectable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-21 Kimihiro Nomura , Asuka Ito , Jiro Soda

Recent evidence for stochastic gravitational waves reported by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations might open a new window for studying cosmology and astrophysical phenomena. In addition to signals from gravitational waves, there is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Qing-Hua Zhu

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) offer an independent method for searching for ultralight dark matter (ULDM), whose wavelike nature induces periodic oscillations in the arrival times of radio pulses. In addition to this gravitational effect, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

Ultralight vector dark matter induces metric fluctuations that generate timing residuals in the arrival times of pulsar emissions through two distinct modes: a fast mode, sourced by coherent field oscillations, and a slow mode, arising from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-27 Jeff A. Dror , Qiushi Wei

Dark matter substructure on small scales is currently weakly constrained, and its study may shed light on the nature of the dark matter. In this work we study the gravitational effects of dark matter substructure on measured pulsar phases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Harikrishnan Ramani , Tanner Trickle , Kathryn M. Zurek

Ultralight dark matter may couple quadratically to Standard Model particles. Such quadratic interactions give rise to both coherent and stochastic signals in pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. In this work, we characterize these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Xucheng Gan , Hyungjin Kim , Andrea Mitridate

Composed of ultralight bosons, fuzzy dark matter provides an intriguing solution to challenges that the standard cold dark matter model encounters on sub-galactic scales. The ultralight dark matter with mass $m\sim10^{-23} \rm{eV}$ will…

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are sensitive to oscillations in the gravitational potential along the line-of-sight due to ultralight particle pressure. We calculate the probing power of PTAs for ultralight bosons across all frequencies, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Caner Unal , Federico R. Urban , Ely D. Kovetz

A coherently oscillating ultra-light axion can behave as dark matter. In particular, its coherently oscillating pressure perturbations can source an oscillating scalar metric perturbation, with a characteristic oscillation frequency which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Jai-chan Hwang , Donghui Jeong , Hyerim Noh , Clemente Smarra

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) can detect disturbances in the fabric of spacetime on a galactic scale by monitoring the arrival time of pulses from millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Recent advancements have enabled the use of $\gamma$-ray radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-14 Hoang Nhan Luu , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Tom Broadhurst , Ruizhi Yang , Jie-Shuang Wang , Zhen Xie

Ultralight boson fields, with a mass around $10^{-23}\text{eV}$, are promising candidates for the elusive cosmological dark matter. These fields induce a periodic oscillation of the spacetime metric in the nanohertz frequency band, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

We investigate observational signatures of ultralight vector dark matter with masses $m \sim 10^{-24}$-$10^{-22}$ eV in pulsar timing arrays, taking into account general polarization states of the vector field. We find that vector dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Kimihiro Nomura , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are exceptionally sensitive detectors in the frequency band $\text{nHz} \lesssim f \lesssim \mu\text{Hz}$. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with mass in the range $10^{-23}\,\text{eV} \lesssim m_\phi \lesssim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 David E. Kaplan , Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle

Ultralight axionlike dark matter (ALDM) is a leading candidate in the dark matter realm, characterized by its prominent wave properties on astronomical scales. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and Pulsar polarization arrays (PPAs) aim to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ximeng Li , Yonghao Liu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Shi Dai , Boris Goncharov , Xiao-Song Hu , Qing-Guo Huang , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Yu-Mei Wu , Xiao Xue , Xingjiang Zhu

It is widely accepted that dark matter contributes about a quarter of the critical mass-energy density in our Universe. The nature of dark matter is currently unknown, with the mass of possible constituents spanning nearly one hundred…

Fluctuations in ultralight dark matter produce significant metric perturbations, which may be detected by monitoring the arrival times of light from millisecond pulsars. While searches using this technique are already underway, they do not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Kimberly K. Boddy , Jeff A. Dror , Austin Lam

We have begun an exciting era for gravitational wave detection, as several world-leading experiments are breaching the threshold of anticipated signal strengths. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are pan-Galactic gravitational wave detectors that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-26 Sarah Burke-Spolaor

Metric perturbations induced by ultralight dark matter (ULDM) fields have long been identified as a potential target for pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. Previous works have focused on the coherent oscillation of metric perturbations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Hyungjin Kim , Andrea Mitridate

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) provide a way to detect gravitational waves (GWs) at nanohertz frequencies. To ensure the detection of GWs, observational data must exhibit the Hellings-Downs angular correlation. It is also known that PTAs can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Hidetoshi Omiya , Kimihiro Nomura , Jiro Soda

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is proposed as a theoretical candidate of dark matter particles with masses of approximately $10^{-22}$ eV. The interactions between ULDM particles and standard model particles would cause variations in pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-30 Zi-Qing Xia , Tian-Peng Tang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan
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