Detecting Dark Matter with Neutron Star Spectroscopy
arXiv:1901.05474 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/09/051
Abstract
The presence of dark matter has been ascertained through a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena and its nature is a central puzzle in modern science. Elementary particles stand as the most compelling explanation. They have been intensively searched for at underground laboratories looking for an energy recoil signal and at telescopes sifting for excess events in gamma-ray or cosmic-ray observations. In this work, we investigate a detection method based on spectroscopy measurements of neutron stars. We outline the luminosity and age of neutrons stars whose dark matter scattering off neutrons can heat neutron stars up to a measurable level. We show that in this case neutron star spectroscopy could constitute the best probe for dark matter particles over a wide masses and interactions strength.
arXiv comment22 pages, 10 figures
References in corpus (40)
- The ATNF Pulsar Catalogue
- Neutron Star Cooling
- Minimal Cooling of Neutron Stars: A New Paradigm
- The Dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A Review of Models and Constraints
- A New Era in the Quest for Dark Matter
- Unifying the observational diversity of isolated neutron stars via magneto-thermal evolution models
- Dark matter direct-detection experiments
- WIMP Annihilation and Cooling of Neutron Stars
- Compact Stars as Dark Matter Probes
- A review of indirect searches for particle dark matter
- Neutron Stars as Dark Matter Probes
- Neutron stars - cooling and transport
- Can Neutron stars constrain Dark Matter?
- Dark Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars and An Infrared Window On WIMPs, SIMPs, and Pure Higgsinos
- Dark Matter Effects On Neutron Star Properties
- Radio Signals from Axion Dark Matter Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres
- Have neutron stars a dark matter core?
- Thermal Dark Matter From A Highly Decoupled Sector
- Scientific Discovery with the James Webb Space Telescope
- PeV-Scale Dark Matter as a Thermal Relic of a Decoupled Sector
- Neutron stars at the dark matter direct detection frontier
- Capture of Inelastic Dark Matter in White Dwarves
- On dark matter models with uniquely spin-dependent detection possibilities
- Multiscatter stellar capture of dark matter
- On the capture of dark matter by neutron stars
- Heating up Neutron Stars with Inelastic Dark Matter
- New Analysis of Neutron Star Constraints on Asymmetric Dark Matter
- Conversion of Dark matter axions to photons in magnetospheres of neutron stars
- Dark matter, neutron stars and strange quark matter
- How high is the neutrino floor?
- Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos: A New Neutrino Floor for Dark Matter Searches
- Overcoming Velocity Suppression in Dark-Matter Direct-Detection Experiments
- No floors: Effective field theory treatment of the neutrino background in direct dark matter detection experiments
- Constraining Axion-Like-Particles with Hard X-ray Emission from Magnetars
- Neutron stars - thermal emitters
- Novel neutrino-floor and dark matter searches with deformed shell model calculations
- Cuckoo's Eggs in Neutron Stars: Can LIGO Hear Chirps from the Dark Sector?
- X-Ray Polarization Signals from Magnetars with Axion-Like-Particles
- Extending Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. Limits on Gamma-ray Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation
- A New Probe of Dark Matter-Induced Fifth Force with Neutron Star Inspirals
Cited by in corpus (37)
- Improved Treatment of Dark Matter Capture in Neutron Stars
- Exoplanets as Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors
- Warming Nuclear Pasta with Dark Matter: Kinetic and Annihilation Heating of Neutron Star Crusts
- Observing the thermalization of dark matter in neutron stars
- Dark Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars from Contact Interactions with Relativistic Targets
- Nucleon Structure and Strong Interactions in Dark Matter Capture in Neutron Stars
- Dark matter axion detection in the radio/mm-waveband
- Celestial-Body Focused Dark Matter Annihilation Throughout the Galaxy
- Improved Treatment of Dark Matter Capture in Neutron Stars II: Leptonic Targets
- Dark Matter, Destroyer of Worlds: Neutrino, Thermal, and Existential Signatures from Black Holes in the Sun and Earth
- Bounds on Long-lived Dark Matter Mediators from Neutron Stars
- Scattering searches for dark matter in subhalos: neutron stars, cosmic rays, and old rocks
- Tidal Love Numbers of Novel and Admixed Celestial Objects
- Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Ultraheavy particle dark matter
- Smoke and mirrors: Neutron star internal heating constraints on mirror matter
- Radio Line Properties of Axion Dark Matter Conversion in Neutron Stars
- Compact Dark Objects in Neutron Star Mergers
- Solar Gamma Ray Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation to Secluded Mediators
- Cosmological and astrophysical probes of dark baryons
- Neutrinos from captured dark matter annihilation in a galactic population of neutron stars
- Neutron star observations of pseudoscalar-mediated dark matter
- Capture of Electroweak Multiplet Dark Matter in Neutron Stars
- Heating Neutron Stars with Inelastic Dark Matter and Relativistic Targets
- Evaporation Barrier for Dark Matter in Celestial Bodies
- Improved bounds on the bosonic dark matter with pulsars in the Milky Way
- Optimal Celestial Bodies for Dark Matter Detection
- Internal heating mechanisms in neutron stars
- Fuzzy Dark Matter in Relativistic Stars
- Dark Matter (H)eats Young Planets
- Scanning the landscape of axion dark matter detectors: applying gradient descent to experimental design
- Using neutron stars to probe dark matter charged under a symmetry
- Dark Dwarfs: Dark Matter-Powered Sub-Stellar Objects Awaiting Discovery at the Galactic Center
- Seeking the nearest neutron stars using a new local electron density map
- Detecting Bosonic Dark Matter with Neutron Stars
- Dark matter scattering in astrophysical media: collective effects
- Deep Inelastic Scattering in the Capture of Dark Matter by Neutron Stars
- Dark, deep, deconfining: Phase transitions in neutron stars as powerful probes of hidden sectors