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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages 2065-2084Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271804006486
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neutrinos; neutrino oscillations; pulsar kicks; dark matter
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Neutrino oscillations in a core-collapse supernova, may be responsible for the observed rapid motions of pulsars. Given the present bounds on the neutrino masses, the pulsar kicks require a sterile neutrino with mass 2-20 keV and a small mixing with the active neutrinos. The same particle can be the cosmological dark matter. Its existence can be confirmed the by the X-ray telescopes if they detect a 1-10 keV photon line from the decays of the relic sterile neutrinos. In addition, one may be able to detect gravity waves from a pulsar being accelerated by neutrinos in the event of a nearby supernova.
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