Hydrogen axion star: metallic hydrogen bound to a QCD axion BEC
Abstract
As a cold dark matter candidate, the QCD axion may form Bose-Einstein condensates, called axion stars, with masses around 10-11M⊙ . In this paper, we point out that a brand new astrophysical object, a Hydrogen Axion Star (HAS), may well be formed by ordinary baryonic matter becoming gravitationally bound to an axion star. Here, we study the properties of the HAS and nd that the hydrogen cloud has a high pressure and temperature in the center and is likely in the liquid metallic hydrogen state. Because of the high particle number densities for both the axion star and the hydrogen cloud, the feeble interaction between axion and hydrogen can still generate enough internal power, around 1013W (ma/=5 meV)4, to make these objects luminous point sources. Furthermore, high resolution ultraviolet, optical and infrared telescopes can discover HAS via black-body radiation.
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- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics
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- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1368035
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-95ER40896
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2016; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
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Bai, Yang, Barger, Vernon, and Berger, Joshua. Hydrogen axion star: metallic hydrogen bound to a QCD axion BEC. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2016)127.
Bai, Yang, Barger, Vernon, & Berger, Joshua. Hydrogen axion star: metallic hydrogen bound to a QCD axion BEC. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)127
Bai, Yang, Barger, Vernon, and Berger, Joshua. Fri .
"Hydrogen axion star: metallic hydrogen bound to a QCD axion BEC". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)127. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1368035.
@article{osti_1368035,
title = {Hydrogen axion star: metallic hydrogen bound to a QCD axion BEC},
author = {Bai, Yang and Barger, Vernon and Berger, Joshua},
abstractNote = {As a cold dark matter candidate, the QCD axion may form Bose-Einstein condensates, called axion stars, with masses around 10-11M⊙ . In this paper, we point out that a brand new astrophysical object, a Hydrogen Axion Star (HAS), may well be formed by ordinary baryonic matter becoming gravitationally bound to an axion star. Here, we study the properties of the HAS and nd that the hydrogen cloud has a high pressure and temperature in the center and is likely in the liquid metallic hydrogen state. Because of the high particle number densities for both the axion star and the hydrogen cloud, the feeble interaction between axion and hydrogen can still generate enough internal power, around 1013W (ma/=5 meV)4, to make these objects luminous point sources. Furthermore, high resolution ultraviolet, optical and infrared telescopes can discover HAS via black-body radiation.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP12(2016)127},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 12,
volume = 2016,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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