Constraining exotic compact stars composed of bosonic and fermionic dark matter with gravitational wave events

Abstract

We investigate neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) merger candidates as a test for compact exotic objects. Using the events GW190814, GW200105 and GW200115 measured by the LIGO-Virgo collabration, which represent a broad profile of the masses in the NS mass spectrum, we demonstrate the constraining power for the parameter spaces of compact stars consisting of dark matter for future measurements. We consider three possible cases of dark matter stars: self-interacting, purely bosonic or fermionic dark matter stars, stars consisting of a mixture of interacting bosonic and fermionic matter, as well as the limiting case of selfbound stars. We find that the scale of those hypothetical objects are dominated by the one of the strong interaction. The presence of fermionic dark matter requires a dark matter particle of the GeV mass scale, while the bosonic dark matter particle mass can be arbitrarily large or small. In the limiting case of a selfbound linear equation of state, we find that the vacuum energy of those configurations has to be similar to the one of QCD.

6 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. In accordance with the CRC-TR 211 Data Management Policy, the research data for section 1 and 4 of this study are available as ancilliary files, while the research data of section 3 is made available under http://cloud.itp.uni-frankfurt.de/s/QYARcPkmqKW5ain

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