2 papers
astro-ph.CO2024
Soliton Merger Rates and Enhanced Axion Dark Matter Decay
Xiaolong Du, David J. E. Marsh, Miguel Escudero +4
Solitons are observed to form in simulations of dark matter (DM) halos consisting of bosonic fields. We use the extended Press-Schechter formalism to compute the mass function of s…
hep-ph2024
Axion Star Explosions: A New Source for Axion Indirect Detection
Miguel Escudero, Charis Kaur Pooni, Malcolm Fairbairn +3
If dark matter is composed of axions, then axion stars form in the cores of dark matter halos. These stars are unstable above a critical mass, decaying to radio photons that heat t…