Axion Astrophysics

Abstract

Stars have been recognized as optimal laboratories to probe axion properties. In the last decades there have been significant advances in this field due to a better modelling of stellar systems and accurate observational data. In this work we review the current status of constraints on axions from stellar physics. We focus in particular on the Sun, globular cluster stars, white dwarfs and (proto)-neutron stars.

130 pages, 59 figures, 9 tables. v2: minor revisions to match the published version

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• Axion superradiance in rotating neutron stars
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• Axion-plasmon polaritons in strongly magnetized plasmas
• Extragalactic photon-ALP conversion at CTA energies
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• Solar Chameleons
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• The CAST Time Projection Chamber
• Investigating the gamma-ray burst from decaying MeV-scale axion-like particles produced in supernova explosions
• Axions and the luminosity function of white dwarfs. The thin and thick disks, and the halo
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• Axion emission from supernova with axion-pion-nucleon contact interaction
• WDEC - A code for modeling white dwarf structure and pulsations
• Selective enhancement of the QCD axion couplings
• Photophilic hadronic axion from heavy magnetic monopoles
• Supernova bounds on axion-like particles coupled with nucleons and electrons
• Heavy sterile neutrinos in stellar core-collapse
• Comprehensive constraints on heavy sterile neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae
• Magnetars and Axion-like Particles: Probes with the Hard X-ray Spectrum
• First axion bounds from a pulsating helium-rich white dwarf star
• Detecting solar axions using Earth's magnetic field
• White dwarfs as Physics laboratories: lights and shadows
• Overview of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr)
• Search for hadronic axions using axioelectric effect
• 511 keV line constraints on feebly interacting particles from supernovae
• Production of axion-like particles from photon conversions in large-scale solar magnetic fields
• Searching for Ultralight Dark Matter Conversion in Solar Corona using Low Frequency Array Data
• First Constraints on the Photon Coupling of Axion-like Particles from Multimessenger Studies of the Neutron Star Merger GW170817
• Gamma-Ray Flashes from Dark Photons in Neutron Star Mergers
• Chameleon foreCAST
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• Hard X-ray Excess from the Magnificent Seven Neutron Stars
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• Constraining heavy axion-like particles by energy deposition in Globular Cluster stars
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• Axion emission from supernovae: a cheatsheet
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• From Supernovae to Neutron Stars: A Systematic Approach to Axion Production at Finite Density
• Shock Revival in Core-collapse Supernovae Assisted by Heavy Axion-like Particles
• The past and future evolution of a star like Betelgeuse
• Multimessenger search for electrophilic feebly interacting particles from supernovae
• Extra dimensions, orthopositronium decay, and stellar cooling
• Robust constraints on feebly interacting particles using XMM-Newton
• Probing protoneutron stars with gamma-ray axionscopes
• Axion Helioscopes as Solar Thermometers
• Search for solar axions via axion-photon coupling with the Majorana Demonstrator
• Effects of axions on Population III stars
• Cross section for supernova axion observation in neutrino water Cherenkov detectors
• Betelgeuse Constraints on Coupling between Axion-like Particles and Electrons
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• Uncovering axion-like particles in supernova gamma-ray spectra
• Feasibility Study for Measuring Geomagnetic Conversion of Solar Axions to X-rays in Low Earth Orbits
• Slowly cooling white dwarfs in NGC 6752
• Solar chameleons: Novel channels
• Constraining white dwarf structure and neutrino physics in 47 Tucanae
• New DA white dwarf models for asteroseismology of ZZ Ceti stars
• A comprehensive calculation of the Primakoff process and the solar axion flux
• Running effects on QCD axion phenomenology
• Asteroseismology of the DAV star L19-2
• Aspects of Axions and ALPs Phenomenology
• Prospects on the Detection of Solar Dark Photons by the International Axion Observatory
• Do Finite Density Effects Jeopardize Axion Nucleophobia in Supernovae?
• Generic energy transport solutions to the solar abundance problem -- a hint of new physics
• Supernova neutrino challenges
• Axion spectra and the associated x-ray spectra of low-mass stars
• Stellar evolution and axion-like particles: new constraints and hints from globular clusters in the GAIA DR3 data
• ALP Anarchy
• White Dwarfs as Advanced Physics Laboratories. The Axion case
• Leading Axion-Photon Sensitivity with NuSTAR Observations of M82 and M87
• A Universal Bound on QCD Axions from Supernovae
• Supernova neutrinos, from back of the envelope to supercomputer
• Dynamic solar Primakoff process

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