Leane, Rebecca K and Smirnov, Juri 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3082-0929
(2023)
Floating dark matter in celestial bodies
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, 2023 (10).
057-.
ISSN 1475-7516, 1475-7516
Abstract
Dark matter (DM) can be captured in celestial bodies after scattering and losing sufficient energy to become gravitationally bound. We derive a general framework that describes the current DM distribution inside celestial objects, which self-consistently includes the effects of concentration diffusion, thermal diffusion, gravity, and capture accumulation. For DM with sufficient interactions, we show that a significant DM population can thermalize and sit towards the celestial-body surface. This surface-enhanced DM distribution allows for new phenomenology for DM searches in a wide range of celestial bodies, including the Sun, Earth, Jupiter, Brown Dwarfs, and Exoplanets.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | dark matter theory, stars |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2024 13:42 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2026 19:54 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/10/057 |
| Open Access URL: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09834 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3183465 |
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