Mergers as a Probe of Particle Dark Matter

Abstract

Black holes below Chandrasekhar mass limit (1.4 $M_{\odot }$) can not be produced via any standard stellar evolution. Recently, gravitational wave experiments have also discovered unusually low mass black holes whose origin is yet to be known. We propose a simple yet novel formation mechanism of such low mass black holes. Non-annihilating particle dark matter, owing to their interaction with stellar nuclei, can gradually accumulate inside compact stars, and eventually swallows them to low mass black holes, ordinarily impermissible by the Chandrasekhar limit. We point out several avenues to test this proposal, concentrating on the cosmic evolution of the binary merger rates.

arXiv commentv2: 8 pages, 2 figures. Published in SciPost Physics Proceedings: 14th International Conference on Identification of Dark Matter (IDM) 2022

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