First asteroseismic limits on the nature of dark matter

Abstract

We report the first constraints on the properties of weakly interacting low-mass dark matter (DM) particles using asteroseismology. The additional energy transport mechanism due to accumulated asymmetric DM particles modifies the central temperature and density of low-mass stars and suppresses the convective core expected in 1.1-1.3 Ms stars even for an environmental DM density as low as the expected in the solar neighborhood. An asteroseismic modeling of the stars KIC 8006161, HD 52265 and Alpha Cen B revealed small frequency separations significantly deviated from the observations, leading to the exclusion of a region of the DM parameter space mass versus spin-dependent DM-proton scattering cross section comparable with present experimental constraints.

5 pages, 3 figures. v2 matches version to be published in ApJL

References in corpus (17)

• Asymmetric Dark Matter
• ADIPLS -- the Aarhus adiabatic oscillation package
• Compact Stars as Dark Matter Probes
• CoRoT reveals a magnetic activity cycle in a Sun-like star
• Constraints on Low-Mass WIMP Interactions on 19F from PICASSO
• Dark matter and the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution
• A new determination of the local dark matter density from the kinematics of K dwarfs
• The moment of truth for WIMP Dark Matter
• Accurate p-mode measurements of the G0V metal-rich CoRoT target HD 52265
• Gravitational effects of condensate dark matter on compact stellar objects
• Light WIMPs in the Sun: Constraints from Helioseismology
• Equilibrium Structure and Radial Oscillations of Dark Matter Admixed Neutron Stars
• Solar constraints on asymmetric dark matter
• Towards the use of asteroseismology to investigate the nature of dark matter
• Signatures of dark matter burning in nuclear star clusters
• The WIMP capture process for dark stars in the early universe
• Probing the Existence of a Dark Matter Isothermal Core Using Gravity Modes

Cited by in corpus (15)

• Detecting Dark Matter with Imploding Pulsars in the Galactic Center
• New Analysis of Neutron Star Constraints on Asymmetric Dark Matter
• Adiabatic contraction revisited: implications for primordial black holes
• Higgs portals to pulsar collapse
• A particle dark matter footprint on the first generation of stars
• Effect of electromagnetic dipole dark matter on energy transport in the solar interior
• Asteroseismic constraints on Asymmetric Dark Matter: Light particles with an effective spin-dependent coupling
• M dwarf search for pulsations within Kepler GO program
• Stellar convective cores as dark matter probes
• Dark matter imprint on ${}^8$B neutrino spectrum
• The Sun and stars: Giving light to dark matter
• Detecting gravity modes in the solar ${}^{8}B$ neutrino flux
• A Theoretical Study of the Outer Layers of Eight Kepler F-stars: The Relevance of Ionization Processes
• The Sun as a probe of Fundamental Physics and Cosmology
• The Sterile-Active Neutrino Flavor Model: the Imprint of Dark Matter on the Electron Neutrino Spectra