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Title: Revisiting constraints on asymmetric dark matter from collapse in white dwarf stars

Abstract

The runaway collapse phase of a small dark matter cluster inside a white dwarf star encompasses a reversible stage, where heat can be transferred back and forth between nuclear and dark matter. Induced nuclear burning phases are stable and early carbon depletion undermines previous claims of type Ia supernova ignition. Instead, mini black holes are formed at the center of the star that either evaporate or accrete stellar material until a macroscopic sub-Chandrasekhar-mass black hole is formed. In the latter case, a 0.1 to 1 second lasting electromagnetic transient signal can be detected upon ejection of the white dwarf’s potential magnetic field. Binary systems that transmute to black holes and subsequently merge emit gravitational waves. Advanced LIGO should detect one such sub-Chandrasekhar binary black hole inspiral per year, while future Einstein telescope-like facilities will detect thousands per year. The effective spin parameter distribution is peaked at 0.2 and permits future studies to disentangle from primordial sub-Chandrasekhar black holes. Such signatures are compatible with current direct detection constraints, as well as with neutron star constraints in the case of bosonic dark matter, even though they remain in conflict with the fermionic case for part of the parameter space.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES (Brazil)
  2. Univ. Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES (Brazil); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Trieste (Italy); Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU), Trieste (Italy)
  3. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1980067
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1867048
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0010107; de-sc0010107
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. D.
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 105; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Gravitational wave sources; novae & supernovae; particle dark matter

Citation Formats

Steigerwald, Heinrich, Marra, Valerio, and Profumo, Stefano. Revisiting constraints on asymmetric dark matter from collapse in white dwarf stars. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevd.105.083507.
Steigerwald, Heinrich, Marra, Valerio, & Profumo, Stefano. Revisiting constraints on asymmetric dark matter from collapse in white dwarf stars. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.105.083507
Steigerwald, Heinrich, Marra, Valerio, and Profumo, Stefano. Mon . "Revisiting constraints on asymmetric dark matter from collapse in white dwarf stars". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.105.083507. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1980067.
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abstractNote = {The runaway collapse phase of a small dark matter cluster inside a white dwarf star encompasses a reversible stage, where heat can be transferred back and forth between nuclear and dark matter. Induced nuclear burning phases are stable and early carbon depletion undermines previous claims of type Ia supernova ignition. Instead, mini black holes are formed at the center of the star that either evaporate or accrete stellar material until a macroscopic sub-Chandrasekhar-mass black hole is formed. In the latter case, a 0.1 to 1 second lasting electromagnetic transient signal can be detected upon ejection of the white dwarf’s potential magnetic field. Binary systems that transmute to black holes and subsequently merge emit gravitational waves. Advanced LIGO should detect one such sub-Chandrasekhar binary black hole inspiral per year, while future Einstein telescope-like facilities will detect thousands per year. The effective spin parameter distribution is peaked at 0.2 and permits future studies to disentangle from primordial sub-Chandrasekhar black holes. Such signatures are compatible with current direct detection constraints, as well as with neutron star constraints in the case of bosonic dark matter, even though they remain in conflict with the fermionic case for part of the parameter space.},
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