WIMP Annihilation and Cooling of Neutron Stars

Aug, 2007
20 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 77 (2008) 023006
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the effect of WIMP annihilation on the temperature of a neutron star. We shall argue that the released energy due to WIMP annihilation inside the neutron stars, might affect the temperature of stars older than 10 million years, flattening out the temperature at 104\sim 10^4 K for a typical neutron star.
  • 97.60.Jd
  • dark matter: accretion
  • WIMP: annihilation
  • neutron star: temperature
  • energy: emission
  • numerical calculations
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