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Universe, Volume 6, Issue 12

December 2020 - 25 articles

Cover Story: Neutron stars change their structure with accumulation of dark matter. We study how their mass is influenced by the environment. Close to the sun, dark matter accretion from the neutron star does not have any effect on it. Moving towards the galactic center, the density increase in dark matter results in increased accretion. At distances of some fraction of a parsec, the neutron star acquires enough dark matter to have its structure changed. We show that the neutron star mass decreases going towards the galactic centre, and that dark matter accumulation beyond a critical value collapses the neutron star into a black hole. Calculations cover cases varying the dark matter particle mass, self-interaction strength, and ratio between the pressure of dark matter and ordinary matter. View this paper.
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Articles (25)

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,391 Views
54 Pages

27 November 2020

We study the Jeans instability of an infinite homogeneous dissipative self-gravitating Bose–Einstein condensate described by generalized Gross–Pitaevskii–Poisson equations [Chavanis, P.H. Eur. Phys. J. Plus2017, 132, 248]. This prob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,554 Views
17 Pages

27 November 2020

Neutrinoless double beta decay (DBD) is a useful probe to study neutrino properties such as the Majorana nature, the absolute neutrino mass, the CP phase and the others, which are beyond the standard model. The nuclear matrix element (NME) for DBD is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,545 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2020

In the Einstein–Cartan gravitational theory with the chameleon field, while changing its mass independently of the density of its environment, we analyze the Friedmann–Einstein equations for the Universe’s evolution with the expansi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,257 Views
11 Pages

Studying Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars in the JWST Era

  • Paolo Ventura,
  • Ester Marini,
  • Silvia Tosi and
  • Flavia Dell’Agli

26 November 2020

We explore the potential offered by the incoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, to study the stars evolving through the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase. To this aim we compare data of AGB stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, taken with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,276 Views
15 Pages

Neutron Stars and Dark Matter

  • Antonino Del Popolo,
  • Morgan Le Delliou and
  • Maksym Deliyergiyev

26 November 2020

Neutron stars change their structure with accumulation of dark matter. We study how their mass is influenced from the environment. Close to the sun, the dark matter accretion from the neutron star does not have any effect on it. Moving towards the ga...

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