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The high densities of neutron stars (NSs) could provide astrophysical locations for dark matter (DM) to accumulate. Depending on the DM model, these DM admixed NSs (DANSs) could have significantly different properties than pure baryonic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Shafayat Shawqi , Sharon M. Morsink

Neutron stars (NSs) can capture dark matter (DM) particles because of their deep gravitational potential and high density. The accumulated DM can affect the properties of NSs. In this work we use a general relativistic two-fluid formalism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 Yukun Liu , Hong-Bo Li , Yong Gao , Lijing Shao , Zexin Hu

This work investigates the impact of mirror dark matter (DM) on the global properties of rotating neutron stars (NSs) across evolutionary stages, from hot, lepton-rich protoneutron stars (PNSs) to cold, catalyzed NSs along the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-27 Adamu Issifu , Andreas Konstantinou , Prashant Thakur , Tobias Frederico

Millisecond pulsars, representing the older neutron star population, are believed to have undergone a prolonged period of dark matter accumulation, resulting in a higher dark matter content. Their extreme rotation makes them unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-27 Lorenzo Cipriani , Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We propose a model of asymmetric bosonic dark matter (DM) with self-repulsion mediated by the vector field coupled to the complex scalar particles. By adopting the two-fluid formalism, we study different DM distribution regimes, either,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência , Tim Dietrich

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

The distribution of the dark matter (DM) in DM-admixed-neutron stars (DANSs) is supposed to be either a dense dark core or an extended dark halo, which is subject to the DM fraction of DANS ($f_{\chi}$) and the DM properties, such as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Zhiqiang Miao , Yaofeng Zhu , Ang Li , Feng Huang

Neutron stars represent unique laboratories, offering insights into the physics of supranuclear-density matter and serving as potential hosts for dark matter. This study explores the impact of dark matter cores on rapidly rotating neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Andreas Konstantinou

Dark matter is expected to accumulate inside neutron stars, modifying the structure of isolated stars and influencing both the dynamics of binary mergers and the evolution of the resulting hypermassive remnants. Since differential rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-08 Lorenzo Cipriani , Violetta Sagun , Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

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

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

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

In this study, we investigate the impact of dark matter (DM) on neutron stars (NSs) using a two-fluid formalism that treats nuclear matter (NM) and DM as gravitationally coupled components. Employing NM equations of state spanning a wide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Ankit Kumar , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Hajime Sotani

Neutron Stars (NSs), among the densest objects in the Universe, are exceptional laboratories for investigating Dark Matter (DM) properties. Recent theoretical and observational developments have heightened interest in exploring the impact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Francesco Grippa , Gaetano Lambiase , Tanmay Kumar Poddar

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

We investigate the structural and observable impacts of dark matter (DM) on neutron stars using a combined equation of state that integrates the relativistic mean field (RMF) model for baryonic matter with a variable density profile for DM,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Ankit Kumar , Hajime Sotani

We study the interaction between dark matter (DM) and highly magnetized neutron stars (NSs), focusing on how DM particle mass, mass fraction, and magnetic field (MF) strength affect NS structure and stability. We consider self-interacting,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Pinku Routaray , Vishal Parmar , H. C. Das , Bharat Kumar , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

We study three cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way(MW)-sized halos including a comparison with the dark matter(DM)-only counterparts. We find one of our simulated galaxies with interesting MW-like features. Thanks to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Pol Mollitor , Emmanuel Nezri , Romain Teyssier

This thesis explores the effects of dark matter (DM) on neutron stars (NSs) using the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model. The effects of DM on NS properties, including the mass-radius relation, the moment of inertia, and tidal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 H. C. Das

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
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