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The idea of self-interacting bosonic dark matter capable of exhibiting superfluidity is revisited. We show that the most interesting parameter space of the theory corresponds to fully thermalized dark matter halos. As a result the entire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Lasha Berezhiani , Giordano Cintia , Justin Khoury

The generic properties of compact objects made of two different fluids of dark matter are studied in a scale invariant approach. We investigate compact objects with a core-shell structure, where the two fluids are separated, and with mixed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Marie Cassing , Alexander Brisebois , Muhammad Azeem , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Theoretical models of self-interacting dark matter offer a promising solution to several unresolved issues within the collisionless cold dark matter framework. For asymmetric dark matter, these self-interactions may encourage gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 Mariachiara Celato , Christian J. Krüger , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We review the current state of observational work on the formation of brown dwarfs, focusing on their initial mass function, velocity and spatial distributions at birth, multiplicity, accretion, and circumstellar disks. The available…

A pressureless dark matter component fits well with several cosmological observations. However, there are indications that cold dark matter may encounter challenges in explaining observations at small scales, particularly at galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena , David F. Mota , Subenoy Chakraborty

In this study, we investigate the influence of an admixed fermionic dark matter (DM) component on the equilibrium structure of white dwarfs (WDs), with particular emphasis on the effects of varying the DM particle mass ($m_{\rm DM}$) and DM…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Rajasmita Sahoo , Somnath Mukhopadhyay , Mrutunjaya Bhuyan

Exploring dark matter via observations of extreme astrophysical environments -- defined here as heavy compact objects such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, as well as supernovae and compact object merger events -- has been a…

The present work is a second in the series of investigation of the background dynamics in brane cosmology when dark energy is coupled to dark matter by a suitable interaction. Here, dark matter is chosen in the form of perfect fluid with…

General Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Sujay Kr. Biswas , Subenoy Chakraborty

We examine the cosmological and astrophysical signatures of a "dark baryon," a neutral fermion that mixes with the neutron. As the mixing is through a higher-dimensional operator at the quark level, production of the dark baryon at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-09 David McKeen , Maxim Pospelov , Nirmal Raj

Compact objects, like neutron stars and white dwarfs, may accrete dark matter, and then be sensitive probes of its presence. These compact stars with a dark matter component can be modeled by a perfect fluid minimally coupled to a complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-03 Susana Valdez-Alvarado , Carlos Palenzuela , Daniela Alic , L. Arturo Ureña-López

We study the structure of compact objects that contain non-self annihilating, self-interacting dark matter admixed with ordinary matter made of neutron star and white dwarf materials. We extend the previous work Phys. Rev. D 92 123002…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-15 Maksym Deliyergiyev , Antonino Del Popolo , Laura Tolos , Morgan Le Delliou , Xiguo Lee , Fiorella Burgio

We present a method for measuring the physical parameters of the coldest T-type brown dwarfs using low resolution near infrared spectra. By comparing H_2O- and H_2-sensitive spectral ratios between empirical data and theoretical atmosphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam J. Burgasser , Adam Burrows , J. Davy Kirkpatrick

In this work, we propose a novel scenario to probe the interactions between dark matter (DM) particles and electrons, via hydrogen-atmosphere pulsating white dwarfs (DAVs) in globular clusters. In this special configuration, the DM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-05 Jia-Shu Niu , Tianjun Li , Weikai Zong , Hui-Fang Xue , Yang Wang

We investigate compact objects formed by dark matter admixed with ordinary matter made of neutron star matter and white dwarf material. We consider non-self annihilating dark matter with an equation-of-state given by an interacting Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 Laura Tolos , Juergen Schaffner-Bielich , Yannick Dengler

We briefly outline the physics underlying the mechanical and thermal properties of brown dwarfs, which characterizes their interiors and their atmospheres. We mention the most recent improvements realyzed in the theory of brown dwarfs and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gilles Chabrier

Neutrinos -- amongst the lightest known particles -- can mediate a force driving dark matter self-interaction and the small scale structure of the universe. We explore such a possibility in the simplest neutrino portal dark sector model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-08 Yue Zhang

Dark matter admixed neutron stars provide a promising avenue for observationally probing the dark matter characteristic. In this study, we examine non-radial oscillations in neutron stars containing self-interacting dark matter, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Hajime Sotani , Ankit Kumar

Spergel and Steinhardt have recently proposed the concept of dark matter with strong self-interactions as a means to address numerous discrepancies between observations of dark matter halos on subgalactic scales and the predictions of the…

We present the first set of cosmological baryonic zoom-in simulations of galaxies including dissipative self-interacting dark matter (dSIDM). These simulations utilize the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 Xuejian Shen , Philip F. Hopkins , Lina Necib , Fangzhou Jiang , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Andrew Wetzel

Dark matter search strategies have started advancing towards the neutrino fog. In this regard, compact objects such as neutron stars have already demonstrated their ability in probing such low DM-nucleon cross-sections from dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Sambo Sarkar