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The effect of dark matter (DM) on $f$-mode oscillations in DM admixed neutron stars (NSs) is investigated in a comprehensive analysis with particular attention to the role of the nuclear equation of state. Hadronic matter is modeled by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 Swarnim Shirke , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

The radius $R_{1.4}$ of neutron stars (NSs) with a mass of 1.4 M$_{\odot}$ has been extracted consistently in many recent studies in the literature. Using representative $R_{1.4}$ data, we infer high-density nuclear symmetry energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-04 Wen-Jie Xie , Bao-An Li

Neutron star properties depend on both nuclear physics and astrophysical processes, and thus observations of neutron stars offer constraints on both large-scale astrophysics and the behavior of cold, dense matter. In this study, we use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Jacob Golomb , Isaac Legred , Katerina Chatziioannou , Philippe Landry

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

We study the effects of dark matter on the properties of neutron stars by employing a DM-admixed model. The Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory with realistic three-body forces and a generic bosonic self-interacting dark matter model describe the…

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

Newly-determined mass of 1.97 $\pm$ 0.04 $M_{\odot}$ for PSR J1614-2230 has been a challenge for the neutron star with a hyperon core (namely hyperon star), since hyperons usually reduce the theoretical maximum mass of the star. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-12 A. LI

We investigate the effects of dark matter (DM) on neutron star (NS) properties using the neutron decay anomaly model within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) framework. Three nucleonic models (HCD0-HCD2) are developed, satisfying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-15 H. C. Das , G. F. Burgio

In this work we explore the potential for Neutron Stars (NSs) at the Galactic center and Population~III stars to constrain bosonic Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM). We demonstrate that for NSs in an environment of sufficiently high DM density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Jared Diks , Cosmin Ilie

We generalize the formalism for DM capture in celestial bodies to account for arbitrary mediator mass, and update the existing and projected astrophysical constraints on DM-nucleon scattering cross section from observations of neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Basudeb Dasgupta , Aritra Gupta , Anupam Ray

Most of the dark matter (DM) search over the last few decades has focused on WIMPs, but the viable parameter space is quickly shrinking. Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) is a WIMP-like DM candidate with slightly smaller masses and no present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Troy J. Raen , Héctor Martínez-Rodríguez , Travis J. Hurst , Andrew R. Zentner , Carles Badenes , Rachel Tao

The tidal deformability and the radius of neutron stars are observables, which have been used to constrain the neutron star equation of state and explore the composition in neutron stars. We investigated the radius and tidal deformability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-06 Hongyi Sun , Dehua Wen

In this work the relativistic mean field (RMF) FSUGold model extended to include hyperons is employed to study the properties of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields. The chaotic magnetic field approximation is utilized. The effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-27 Fei Wu , Chen Wu , Zhongzhou Ren

Understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme densities is a central problem in fundamental physics, but neutron star mergers provide a natural laboratory for probing this regime. However, the complexity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Nina Kunert , Guilherme Grams , William Newton , Edoardo Giangrandi , Anna Puecher , Hauke Koehn , Violetta Sagun , Tim Dietrich

The neutron star properties are generally determined by the equation of state of $\beta$-equilibrated dense matter. In this work, we consider the interaction of fermionic dark matter (DM) particles with the nucleons via Higgs exchange and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Patra

Measurements of neutron star mass and radius or tidal deformability deliver unique insight into the equation of state (EOS) of cold dense matter. EOS inference is very often done using generalized parametric or non-parametric models which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-25 Chun Huang , Geert Raaijmakers , Anna L. Watts , Laura Tolos , Constança Providência

Composite asymmetric dark matter (ADM) is the framework that naturally explains the coincidence of the baryon density and the dark matter density of the Universe. Through a portal interaction sharing particle-antiparticle asymmetries in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Saikat Das , Ayuki Kamada , Takumi Kuwahara , Kohta Murase , Deheng Song

Using an explicitly isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) for the core of neutron stars (NSs) within the Bayesian statistical approach, we infer the EOS parameters of super-dense neutron-rich nuclear matter from three sets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-07 Wen-Jie Xie , Bao-An Li

We study energy transport by asymmetric dark matter in the interiors of very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. Our motivation is to explore astrophysical signatures of asymmetric dark matter, which otherwise may not be amenable to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Andrew R. Zentner , Andrew P. Hearin

Dark matter could accumulate around neutron stars in sufficient amounts to affect their global properties. In this work, we study the effect of a specific model for dark matter -- a massive and self-interacting vector (spin-1) field -- on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Cédric Jockel , Laura Sagunski

In this study, we investigate the impacts of dark matter (DM) on the properties of both static and rotating neutron stars utilizing a self-interacting DM model, motivated by the neutron decay anomaly. DM-admixed NSs are modeled by assuming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Pinku Routaray , Abirbhav Chakrawarty , N. K. Patra , Bharat Kumar