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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 investigate the possible presence of dark matter (DM) in massive and rotating neutron stars (NSs). For the purpose we extend our previous work [1] to introduce a light new physics vector mediator besides a scalar one in order to ensure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Atanu Guha , Debashree Sen

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

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 study the effects of dark matter on the structural properties of neutron stars. In particular we investigate how the presence of a dark matter component influences the mass-radius relation, the value of the maximum mass of a neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Domenico Scordino , Ignazio Bombaci

The idea of Dark Matter (DM) with self interaction was invoked to resolve a number of discrepancies between the simulation based predictions by collisionless cold DM and the astrophysical observations on galactic and subgalactic scales.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-04 Kamakshya Prasad Modak

Over the past two decades, significant strides have been made in the study of Dark Matter (DM) admixed neutron stars and their associated properties. However, an intriguing facet regarding the effect of DM on magnetized neutron stars still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Vishal Parmar , H. C. Das , M. K. Sharma , S. K. Patra

We investigate the viability of a simple dark matter (DM) model consisting of a single fermion in the context of galactic dynamics. We use a consistent approach that does not presume a particular DM density profile but instead requires that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 K. Pal , L. V. Sales , J. Wudka

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

In our galaxy, the white dwarfs (WDs) will inevitably capture the dark matter (DM) particles streaming through them, if there exist interactions between DM particles and nuclei/electrons. At the same time, these DM particles can also be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-18 Jia-Shu Niu , Hui-Fang Xue

In this paper, we construct the first asymmetric strongly interacting massive particles (SIMP) dark matter (DM) model, where a new vector-like fermion and a new complex scalar both having nonzero chemical potentials can be asymmetric DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-31 Shu-Yu Ho

We investigate the impact of asymmetric fermionic dark matter (DM) on the thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs), considering a scenario where DM interacts with baryonic matter (BM) through gravity. Employing the two-fluid formalism, our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Edoardo Giangrandi , Afonso Ávila , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência

Approximately 25--50\% of white dwarfs (WDs) exhibit metal absorption lines in their photospheres, interpreted as evidence of ongoing/recent accretion of planetary debris from remnant systems. Previous theoretical studies have suggested…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhangliang Chen , Xin-Yue Zhang , Di-Chang Chen , Kejun Wang , Bo Ma , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou

A binary system embedded in a Dark Matter (DM) background may experience a change in its orbital period due to dynamical friction as the binary moves through a wind of DM particles. We compute such a perturbative effect on the binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-12 L. Gabriel Gómez

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

In this study, we investigate the impact of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) dark matter (DM) on $C-\Lambda$ universal relations, GW170817 posterior and radial oscillations of neutron stars (NSs) by considering the interactions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-20 Pinku Routaray , Abdul Quddus , Kabir Chakravarti , Bharat Kumar

Recent high-resolution simulations that include Cold Dark Matter (CDM) and baryons have shown that baryonic physics can dramatically alter the dark matter structure of galaxies. These results modify our predictions for observed galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Alyson Brooks

We study the effects of dark matter on the properties of hybrid neutron stars, in particular the influence on the mass-radius relation, the value of the maximum mass, and the hadron-quark phase transition. To single out the equilibrium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Jin-Biao Wei , G. Wu , H. Chen , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

Dwarf galaxies in the Local Group offer a way to test dark matter (DM) models against stellar kinematic data. In this work, we study degenerate fermionic DM in two cases: the standard non-interacting Fermi gas, and an interacting degenerate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-22 Bihag Dave , Raghuveer Garani

The era of precision cosmology allows us to test the composition of the dark matter. Mixed ultralight or fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a cosmological model with dark matter composed of a combination of particles of mass $m\leq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Alex Laguë , Bodo Schwabe , Renée Hložek , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers