Dark matter heating vs. rotochemical heating in old neutron stars

Dark matter (DM) particles in the Universe accumulate in neutron stars (NSs) through their interactions with ordinary matter. It has been known that their annihilation inside the NS core causes late-time heating, with which the surface temperature becomes a constant value of Ts≃(2−3)×103 K for the N...

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Main Authors: Koichi Hamaguchi, Natsumi Nagata, Keisuke Yanagi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-08-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319304435