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White dwarfs with infrared excess emission provide a window into the late stages of stellar evolution and the dynamics of circumstellar environments. Using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), we…

We explore the connection between galaxies and dark matter halos in the Milky Way (MW) and quantify the implications on properties of the dark matter particle and the phenomenology of low-mass galaxy formation. This is done through a…

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Brown dwarfs, stars with insufficient mass to burn hydrogen, could contribute to the dark matter in the Galactic disk, galactic halos or even a background critical density. We consider the detectability of such brown dwarfs in various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. J. Kerins , B. J. Carr

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) offers the potential to mitigate some of the discrepancies between simulated cold dark matter (CDM) and observed galactic properties. We introduce a physically motivated SIDM model to understand the…

We discuss the recent discovery by Oppenheimer et al (2001) of old, cool white dwarf stars, which may be the first direct detection of Galactic halo dark matter. We argue here that the contribution of more mundane white dwarfs of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chris Flynn , Janne Holopainen , Johan Holmberg

Cold Dark Matter (CDM) is a crucial constituent of the current concordance cosmological model. Having a vanishing equation of state (EoS), its energy density scales with the inverse cosmic volume and is thus uniquely described by a single…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-11 Michael Kopp , Constantinos Skordis , Daniel B. Thomas , Stéphane Ilić

We study the mesonic nonlinear (NL) interaction equation of state (EoS) employing the relativistic mean-field model and investigate the effect of $\sigma$-cut potential (NL-$\sigma$ cut) and dark matter (NL DM) on the non-radial and radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Prashant Thakur , Ishfaq Ahmad Rather , Y. Lim

The nature of dark matter remains one of the most fundamental and unresolved questions in modern cosmology. In most cosmological models, dark matter is typically modeled as pressureless dust with an equation of state (EoS) parameter $w_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Tian-Nuo Li , Yi-Min Zhang , Yan-Hong Yao , Peng-Ju Wu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

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

The standard cosmological model based on cold dark matter (CDM) predicts a large number of subhalos for each galaxy-size halo. It is well known that matching the subhalos to the observed properties of luminous satellites of galaxies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Nierenberg , T. Treu , N. Menci , Y. Lu , W. Wang

Data tables on the equation of state (EOS) and microscopic structures for cold dense stellar matter with proton fractions $Y_p =0.01$-$0.65$ and baryon number densities $n_\text{b}=10^{-8}$-$2 \ \mathrm{fm}^{-3}$ are obtained adopting 13…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-17 Jia-Xing Niu , Hao Sun , Cheng-Jun Xia , Toshiki Maruyama

We revisit a cosmological model where dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) follow barotropic equations of state, allowing deviations from the standard $\Lambda$CDM framework (i.e. $w_{dm} \neq 0$, $w_{de} \neq -1$), considering both flat…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Dorian Araya , Cristian Castillo , Genly Leon , Juan Magaña , Angie Barr Domínguez , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia

We investigate the radial density distribution of the dynamical dark energy inside the white dwarfs (WDs) and its possible impact on their intrinsic structure. The minimally-coupled dark energy with barotropic equation of state which has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Sviatoslav Smerechynskyi , Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj

Ultra-massive white dwarfs ($\rm M_{WD} \gtrsim 1.05\, M_{\odot}$) are considered powerful tools to study type Ia supernovae explosions, merger events, the occurrence of physical processes in the Super Asymptotic Giant Branch (SAGB) phase,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 María E. Camisassa , Leandro G. Althaus , Detlev Koester , Santiago Torres , Pilar Gil Pons , Alejandro H. Córsico

Mass bounds on dark matter (DM) candidates are obtained for particles decoupling in or out of equilibrium with {\bf arbitrary} isotropic and homogeneous distribution functions. A coarse grained Liouville invariant primordial phase space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. Sanchez

In the thermal dark matter (DM) paradigm, primordial interactions between DM and Standard Model particles are responsible for the observed DM relic density. In Boehm et al. (2014), we showed that weak-strength interactions between DM and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-16 J. A. Schewtschenko , C. M. Baugh , R. J. Wilkinson , C. Boehm , S. Pascoli , T. Sawala

Ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies are a promising probe for dark matter (DM) physics as they are the most DM-dominated systems known. The Milky Way (MW) hosts many UFDs for which the properties of their DM distribution have been inferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Moritz S. Fischer , Hai-Bo Yu

The microlensing experiments in the direction of the LMC seem to be indicating that about 60% of the dark matter in the Galactic halo is tied up in objects whose masses are about half the mass of the Sun. This mass is a natural one for old…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harvey B. Richer

Interactions between dark matter (DM) and relativistic particles at early times suppress structure formation on small scales. In particular, the scattering process transfers heat and momentum from radiation to DM, ultimately reducing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Wendy Crumrine , Ethan O. Nadler , Rui An , Vera Gluscevic

Cold Dark Matter (CDM) has become the standard modern theory of cosmological structure formation. Its predictions appear to be in good agreement with data on large scales, and it naturally accounts for many properties of galaxies. But…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joel R. Primack