Searching for Dark Matter with Neutron Star Mergers and Fast Radio Bursts

We propose several new search strategies for asymmetric dark matter models, which are notoriously difficult to detect due to their lack of annihilation radiation (or potentially decay). This expands on a long-running research platform aimed at determining the conditions under which the asymmetric dark matter density inside compact objects like neutron stars could reach a critical value that causes the entire system to collapse into a black hole. We propose to search for suhc a scenario utilizing LIGO detections of Neutron star mergers, and CHIME detections of fast radio bursts - both of which would have altered features if the neutron stars in such objects had previously collapsed into black holes. We find, for example, that searches which verified an astrophysical distribution of neutron star mergers on the sky could set constraints on the asymmetric dark matter cross-section several orders of magnitude better than from terestrial experiments.

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Full Publication List:

8. Searching for Dark Matter with Neutron Star Mergers and Quiet Kilonovae
Joe Bramante, Tim Linden, Yu-Dai Tsai
Physical Review D 97 055016

7. On the R-Process Enrichment of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Joseph Bramante, Tim Linden
The Astrophysical Journal 826 1 57

6. The Anisotropy of the Extragalactic Radio Background from Dark Matter
Ke Fang, Tim Linden
Physical Review D 91 083501 (2015)

5. A Critical Reevaluation of Radio Constraints on Annihilating Dark Matter
Ilias Cholis, Dan Hooper, Tim Linden
Physical Review D, 91 083507 (2015)

4. Detecting Dark Matter with Imploding Pulsars in the Galactic Center
Joseph Bramante, Tim Linden
Physical Review Letters, 113 191301

3. The Isotropic Radio Background and Annihilating Dark Matter
Dan Hooper, Alexander Belikov, Tesla Jeltema, Tim Linden, Stefano Profumo, Tracy Slatyer
Physical Review D, 86 10 103003

2. Dark Matter and Synchrotron Emission from Galactic Center Radio Filaments
Tim Linden, Dan Hooper, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
The Astrophysical Journal, 741 2 95

1. Gamma-Rays from the Galactic Center and the WMAP Haze
Dan Hooper, Tim Linden
Physics Review D, 83 8 083517 (2011)



Tim Linden

Assistant Professor, Stockholm University

linden@fysik.su.se