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Does Dark Matter Admixed Pulsar Exist manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Does Dark Matter admixed pulsar exist ? Sajahan Molla 1,a, Bidisha Ghosh2,b, Mehedi Kalam2,c 1Department of Physics, New Alipore College, L Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700 053, India 2Department of Physics, Aliah University, IIA/27, Action Area II, Newtown, Kolkata -700156, India Received: date / Accepted: date Abstract In this paper, we have considered a two- consists of electrons while in neutron stars Fermi gas fluid model assuming that the pulsars are made of or- consists of neutrons. Normally, neutron stars are com- dinary matter admixed with dark matter.Contribution posed mostly by neutrons while a new object, called of dark matter comes from the fitting of the rotation strange stars are made of strange quark matter (SQM) curves of the SPARC sample of galaxies[95]. For this or its conversion (u,d,s quarks) and they may be en- we have investigated the dark matter based on the Sin- closed to the core of the neutron star [2,3]. It is familiar gular Isothermal Sphere (SIS) dark matter density pro- that neutron stars are bounded by gravitational attrac- file in the galactic halo region. Considering this two- tion where as strange stars are bounded by strong inter- fluid model, we have studied the physical features of actions as well as gravitational attractions. Therefore, the pulsars present in different galaxy in details. Here, strange stars become more gravitationally bound than we compute the probable radii, compactness (u) and neutron stars. Since a strange star is more stable com- surface red-shift (Zs) of the four pulsars namely : PSR pared to a regular neutron star, its formation could in- J1748-2021B in NGC 6440B galaxy, PSR J1911-5958A terpret the origin of the huge amount of energy released in NGC 6752 galaxy, PSR B1802-07in NGC 6539 galaxy in superluminous supernovae [4]. This type of super- and PSR J1750-37A in NGC 6441 galaxy. novae event happens about one out of every 1000 super- Keywords Compact star · Dark matter · Mass novae explosions and it is more than 100 times brighter function · Radius · Compactness · Red-shift than common supernovae. In most cases, a strange star and a neutron star can be separated on the basis of their vanishing surface energy density [3,5,6,7,8]. Since 1 Introduction after the birth of a neutron star, within a few second, its temperature becomes less than the Fermi energy, hence, It was noticed that the study of compact objects take for a given equation of state the mass and radius of the arXiv:2007.13011v1 [gr-qc] 25 Jul 2020 much attention to the astro physicist during the last neutron star depend only on central density. Although, few decade due to their unique properties compare to it is very difficult to find it’s mass and radius simulta- an Earth-based experiments. Compact objects comprise neously. We suggest to see a review work of Lattimer excellent natural laboratories to study, test and con- & Prakash 2007 [9] for a detail study. From the so- strain new physics and/or alternative theories of grav- lutions of Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations, we ity under extreme conditions. Compact relativistic ob- can theoretically enumerate the mass and radii of the jects such as white dwarfs, neutron stars and black hole spherically-symmetric compact stars.The mass and ra- are the last destiny of the evolved stars [1]. The stars dius of a compact star can be measured by pulsar tim- become stable when the outward degeneracy pressure ing, thermal emission from cooling stars, surface ex- provided by the Fermi gas balances the inward grav- plosions and gravity wave emissions through observa- itational force. In case of white dwarfs the Fermi gas tions.It is well known that the properties of the compact ae-mail: [email protected] objects like mass and radius, crucially depend on the be-mail: [email protected] equation of state, unfortunately, which is poorly known ce-mail: [email protected] to us. Truly, the most challenging task is to fix the ex- 2 act Equation of State (EoS) to describe the structure of mass of the pulsar ”PSR J1748-2021B” in NGC 6440B a compact star [10,11,12,13,14,15]. Though few com- by using the Green Bank Telescope’s S-band receiver pact star’s masses have been decided (to some extend), and the Pulsar Spigot spectrometer and it comes out as which are in binaries [16,17,18,19,20] but there is no 2.74±0.21M . In another work, Bassa et al. [68] present ⊙ information about the radius. Therefore,the theoretical spectroscopic and photometric observations of the opti- study of the stellar structure is required to support the cal counterpart to PSR J1911-5958A, a millisecond pul- correct direction for the newly observed stelar masses. sar located in the globular cluster NGC 6752 and it’s +0.16 In these ground some of the researcher’s work on com- mass comes out as 1.40 0.10M . On the other hand, ⊙ pact stars has been mentioned here [21,22,23,24,25,26, S.E. Thorsett and D. Chakrabarty− [69] reported the 27,28,29,30,31,32,33,89,35,36,37,38,39,40]. measurement of the mass of the PSR B1802-07 which +0.08 In 1933 Zwicky discovered the dark matter while is in the globular cluster NGC 6539, as 1.26 0.17M . − ⊙ studying the dynamic properties of the Coma galaxy Freire et al. [70] have also determined the mass of the +0.39 cluster [41]. Whereas Rubin and Ford arrived at the pulsar ”PSR J1750-37A” in NGC 6441 as 1.26 0.36M . − ⊙ similar conclusions about the existence of the dark mat- The Singular Isothermal Sphere (SIS) model is very ter with optical studies of galaxies like M31 [42] after useful for gravitational lensing[71].Also, so many obser- few decades. We suggest to see the Ref. [43,44], a re- vational evidences are there where they are consistent view work on dark matter. In fact, we are still unaware with SIS profiles.This motivates us to study the Singu- of the origin and nature of the dark matter. In reality, lar Isothermal Sphere(SIS) model[71] to study the dark the kind of elementary particles playing the role of dark matter. matter in the universe is one of the recent challenges of Also, we have been motivated by the previous arti- particle physics and modern cosmology. After an inten- cles on dark matter neutron star reported in well known sive study, cosmologists and particle physicists recently journals [55,58,61,72,73,74,75,76,77]. The motto of the proposed many dark matter candidates to explain or present article is to study the existence of dark mat- constrain the properties [45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53]. ter with ordinary matter in pulsars located in vari- Though dark matter does’t interact directly with ous galaxies, namely, PSR J1748-2021B in NGC 6440B, normal matter, it can have significant gravitational ef- PSR J1911-5958Ain NGC 6752, PSR B1802-07 in NGC fects on stellar objects [54,55,56]. It was reported that 6539, PSR J1750-37A in NGC 6441. We have come to [57,58,59,60,61] the fermionic dark matter can have a conclusion that there is every possibility of existence more gravitational effects on strange star’s physical prop- of dark matter admixed with ordinary matter in the erties. Till today the spin of the dark matter particles above mentioned pulsars. remain unknown to us, one can think of the bosonic dark matter scenario. The authors Panotopoulos and Lopes [62] studied the effects of bosonic condensed dark 2 Interior Spacetime matter on strange stars as far as the radial oscillations are concerned. It is generally accepted that dark mat- Consider a static and spherically symmetric star with ter particles are collisionless. Spergel and Steinhardt interior spacetime as [63] inaugurated the idea that dark matter may have ds2 = −eν(r)dt2 + eλ(r)dr2 + r2(dθ2 + sin2θdφ2) (1) self-interaction in order to wipe out some apparent con- flicts among the collisionless cold dark matter example Inspired from many previous revealed famous articles and astrophysical observations. The dark matter core [78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90], we have taken inside the neutron star considered as continuity in Ref. static, spherical symmetric metric for this pulsar model. [64], whereas in Ref. [65], it was considered that dark The Einstein field equations for the metric Eq. (1) ob- matter halo enveloping the star. It was reported that tained as (taking G = c = 1) in the presence of dark matter core scenario, possible λ λ′ 1 1 effects on the maximum mass of a neutron star, its ra- 8πρ = e− − + (2) r r2 r2 dius for any fixed mass, and its tidal deformability Λ ν 1 1 are in general reduced [61,66]. Whereas an increase in 8πp = e λ ′ + − (3) r − r r2 r2 tidal deformability Λ was found in the dark matter halo λ 2 model scenario [65]. e− (ν′) − λ′ν′ ν′ − λ′ 8πp = + + ν′′ (4) t 2 2 r Generally Pulsar is a subclass of Neutron stars and According to H. Heintzmann [91], it became an interesting object to the astrophysicists 3 for the last few years. Freire et al. [67] measured the eν = A2 1+ ar2 3 and Table 1 Circular velocity of the flat part of the rotation 1 curves of galaxies(vobs), rotational velocity of halos(vhalo) 2 2 − 2 λ 3ar 1+ C 1+4ar and the K values of dwarf galaxies which is calculated from e− = 1 − ar2 the galactic rotational curve fit of dwarf galaxies.
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