Wednesday, November 9, 2011

1111.1787 (S. -C. Leung et al.)

Dark-Matter Admixed Neutron Stars    [PDF]

S. -C. Leung, M. -C. Chu, L. -M. Lin
We study the hydrostatic equilibrium configuration of an admixture of degenerate dark matter and normal nuclear matter by using a general relativistic two-fluid formalism. We consider non- self-annihilating dark matter particles of mass ~ 1 GeV. The mass-radius relations and moments of inertia of these dark-matter admixed neutron stars are investigated and the stability of these stars is demonstrated by performing a radial perturbation analysis. We find a new class of compact stars which consists of a small normal matter core with radius of a few km embedded in a ten-kilometer- sized dark matter halo. These stellar objects may be observed as extraordinarily small neutron stars that are incompatible with realistic nuclear matter models.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1787

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