A dark matter probe in accreting pulsar-black hole binaries
Ali Akil,
Qianhang Ding
Abstract:The accretion of dark matter (DM) into astrophysical black holes slowly increases their
mass. The rate of this mass accretion depends on the DM model and the model parameters. If this
mass accretion effect can be measured accurately enough, it is possible to rule out some DM
models, and, with the sufficient technology and the help of other DM constraints, possibly confirm
one model. We propose a DM probe based on accreting pulsar-black hole binaries, which provide a
high-precision measurement on bina… Show more
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