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Dark compact objects: An extensive overview

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 99, Issue 6, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.063015

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Funding

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences Presidents International Fellowship Initiative [2016PM043]
  2. Polish National Science Centre (NCN) [2016/23/B/ST2/00692]
  3. Lanzhou University starting fund
  4. Heisenberg Programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [383452331]
  5. PHAROS COST Action [CA16214]
  6. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades [FPA2016-81114-P]

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We study the structure of compact objects that contain non-self annihilating, self-interacting dark matter admixed with ordinary matter made of neutron star and white dwarf materials. We extend the previous work [Phys. Rev. D 92, 123002 (2015)] on these dark compact objects by analyzing the effect of weak and strongly interacting dark matter with particle masses in the range of 1-500 GeV, so as to set some constraints in the strength of the interaction and the mass of the dark matter particle. We find that the total mass of the compact objects increases with decreasing dark matter particle mass. In the strong interacting case and for dark matter particle masses in the range 1-10 GeV, the total mass of the compact objects largely exceeds the 2 M-circle dot constraint for neutron star masses and the nominal 1 M-circle dot for white dwarfs, while for larger dark matter particle masses or in the weakly interacting case the compact objects show masses in agreement or smaller than these constraints, thus hinting at the exclusion of strongly self-interacting dark matter of masses 1-10 GeV in the interior of these compact objects. Moreover, we observe that the smaller the dark matter particle mass, the larger the quantity of dark matter captured is, putting constraints on the dark matter mass trapped in the compact objects so as to fulfill similar or equal to 2 M-circle dot observations. Finally, the inhomogeneity of distribution of dark matter in the Galaxy implies a mass dependence of compact objects from the environment which can be used to put constraints on the characteristics of the Galaxy halo DM profile and on particle mass. In view of these results, we discuss the formation of the dark compact objects in an homogeneous and nonhomogeneous dark matter environment.

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