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arXiv 1208.3722astro-ph.SRnucl-th
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太大质量的中子星:暗物质的作用?

Too massive neutron stars: The role of dark matter?

Ang Li, Feng Huang, Ren-Xin Xu

摘要:

中子星的最大质量一般由恒星物质的状态方程决定。在这项研究中,我们考虑暗物质粒子,假设行为像费米子与自由参数,以考虑粒子之间的相互作用强度,作为一个可能的组成部分的中子星。我们发现恒星内部的暗物质会比超子更强烈地软化状态方程,并大大降低恒星的最大质量。然而,中子星的最大质量对暗物质的粒子质量很敏感,当粒子质量足够小时,可以获得大于2倍太阳质量的非常高的中子星质量。这种暗物质混合的中子星可以解释最近对射电脉冲星PSR J 1614 -2230的Shapiro延迟的测量,它产生了2倍太阳质量的中子星质量,这在微观Brueckner理论的情况下,仅考虑超子时很难达到。此外,在这种特殊情况下,我们指出,中子星周围的暗物质也应该有助于质量测量,因为它的纯引力效应。然而,我们的数值计算表明,由于通常假设的稀释暗物质环境,这种贡献可以安全地忽略。我们的结论是,一个非常高的质量测量约2倍太阳质量需要一个真正的刚性状态方程在中子星,并找到一个强大的上限(<= 0.64 GeV)的粒子质量的非自湮灭暗物质的基础上,本模型。

英文摘要:

The maximum mass of a neutron star is generally determined by the equation of state of the star material. In this study, we take into account dark matter particles, assumed to behave like fermions with a free parameter to account for the interaction strength among the particles, as a possible constituent of neutron stars. We find dark matter inside the star would soften the equation of state more strongly than that of hyperons, and reduce largely the maximum mass of the star. However, the neutron star maximum mass is sensitive to the particle mass of dark matter, and a very high neutron star mass larger than 2 times solar mass could be achieved when the particle mass is small enough. Such kind of dark-matter- admixed neutron stars could explain the recent measurement of the Shapiro delay in the radio pulsar PSR J1614-2230, which yielded a neutron star mass of 2 times solar mass that may be hardly reached when hyperons are considered only, as in the case of the microscopic Brueckner theory. Furthermore, in this particular case, we point out that the dark matter around a neutron star should also contribute to the mass measurement due to its pure gravitational effect. However, our numerically calculation illustrates that such contribution could be safely ignored because of the usual diluted dark matter environment assumed. We conclude that a very high mass measurement of about 2 times solar mass requires a really stiff equation of state in neutron stars, and find a strong upper limit (<= 0.64 GeV) for the particle mass of non-self- annihilating dark matter based on the present model.

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