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Neutron stars can accumulate asymmetric dark matter (ADM) in their interiors, which affects the neutron star's measurable properties and makes compact objects prime targets to search for ADM. In this work, we use Bayesian inference to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-05 Nathan Rutherford , Geert Raaijmakers , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Anna Watts

We investigate how simultaneous mass and radius measurements of massive neutron stars (NSs) can help constrain properties of dark matter (DM) possibly admixed in them. Within a fermionic DM model that interacts only through gravitation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li , Jia-Yu Zhang , Wei-Na Shen , Hui Zhang

{We present a study of neutron star models that contain dark matter (DM) in the core. The DM is assumed to have a particle nature and to be self-interacting. Using constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wasif Husain , Anthony W. Thomas

We studied the properties of dark matter admixed-neutron stars (DMANS), considering fermionic dark matter (DM) that interacts gravitationally with hadronic matter (HM). Using relativistic mean-field equations of state (EoSs) for both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Payaswinee Arvikar , Sakshi Gautam , Anagh Venneti , Sarmistha Banik

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

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

We consider gravitationally bound states of asymmetric dark matter (ADM stars), and the impact of ADM capture on the stability of neutron stars. We derive and interpret the equation of state for ADM with both attractive and repulsive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Moira I. Gresham , Kathryn M. Zurek

We investigate the influence of ideal Fermi gas dark matter on the observable properties of neutron stars (NSs). Our analysis considers dark matter (DM) particle masses ($\mu$) ranging from $0.2$ GeV to $1$ GeV and various DM mass fractions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Monmoy Molla , Masum Murshid , Mehedi Kalam

Due to their extreme density and low temperature, neutron stars (NS) are efficient probes to unveil interactions between standard model and dark matter (DM) particles. From elastic scatterings on NS material, DM can get gravitationally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-28 Raghuveer Garani , Yoann Genolini , Thomas Hambye

Fermionic asymmetric dark matter (ADM) can be captured in neutron stars (NSs) via scatterings with the star constituents. The absence of dark matter annihilation due to its asymmetric nature leads to ADM accumulation in the NS core,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Sandra Robles , Drona Vatsyayan , Giorgio Busoni

Dark matter admixed neutron stars (DANSs) serve as a specific astrophysical laboratory for probing the features of dark matter (DM) and have emerged as a promising candidate for interpreting recent astrophysical observations (e.g., by NICER…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Jing Fu Hu , Hang Lu , Bao Yuan Sun

We perform a comparative Bayesian analysis of fermionic and bosonic dark matter admixed neutron stars (DMANS) by incorporating a comprehensive set of theoretical, experimental, and astrophysical constraints. The hadronic matter equation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Payaswinee Arvikar , Sakshi Gautam , Anagh Venneti , Sarmistha Banik

Dark matter (DM) continues to evade direct detection, but neutron stars (NSs) serve as natural laboratories where even a modest DM component can alter their structure. While many studies have examined DM effects on NSs, they often rely on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Xue-Zhi Liu , Premachand Mahapatra , Chun Huang , Ayush Hazarika , Chiranjeeb Singha , Prasanta Kumar Das

The presence of Dark matter (DM) within a neutron star (NS) can substantially influence the macroscopic properties. It is commonly assumed that the pressure inside an NS is isotropic, but in reality, pressure is locally anisotropic. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Premachand Mahapatra , Chiranjeeb Singha , Ayush Hazarika , Prasanta Kumar Das

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

Considering ten well-known relativistic mean field models, we invoke feeble interaction between hadronic matter and fermionic dark matter (DM) $\chi$ via new physics scalar ($\phi$) and vector ($\xi$) mediators in neutron star core, thereby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-11 Atanu Guha , Debashree Sen

By assuming that only gravitation acts between dark matter (DM) and normal matter (NM), we studied DM admixed neutron stars (DANSs) using the two-fluid TOV equations. The NM and DM of compact stars are simulated by the relativistic mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 X. D. Wang , B. Qi , N. B. Zhang , S. Y. Wang

In this work, we employ the dark matter equations of state (DMEOSs) obtained from the rotational curves of galaxies as well as the fermionic DMEOS with m = 1.0 GeV to study the structure of darkmatter admixed neutron stars (DMANSs).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-19 Z. Rezaei

We study the impact of symmetry energy ($S$), hyperons, and dark matter (DM) on structural and oscillatory properties of neutron stars (NSs). Uncertainty from hadronic equation of state for NSs is considered with 15 relativistic mean field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Debashree Sen , Atanu Guha , Chang Ho Hyun

We investigate the structure of admixed neutron stars with a regular hadronic component and a fraction of fermionic self-interacting dark matter. Using two limiting equations of state for the dense baryonic interior, constructed from…

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