Radio telescope search for the resonant conversion of cold dark matter axions from the magnetized astrophysical sources

2018/03/31 by Fa Peng Huang, Kenji Kadota, Toyokazu Sekiguchi +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Adiabatic process #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Axion #Cold dark matter #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Magnetosphere #Neutron star #Nuclear physics #Optics #Photon #Physics #Plasma #Radio telescope #Telescope #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.HE #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.97.123001

published as Phys. Rev. D 97, 123001 (2018) · 13 pages, the discussion section expanded. To appear in PRD

openalex created_date 2018/03/29 · arxiv created 2018/05/23 · openalex publication_date 2018/06/08 · arxiv updated 2018/06/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We study the conditions for the adiabatic resonant conversion of the cold dark matter (CDM) axions into photons in the astrophysically sourced strong magnetic fields such as those in the neutron star magnetosphere. We demonstrate the possibility that the forthcoming radio telescopes such as the SKA (Square Kilometre Array) can probe those photon signals from the CDM axions.

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