Dark Matter-admixed Rotating White Dwarfs as Peculiar Compact Objects
H-S. Chan, M-C. Chu, S-C. Leung

TL;DR
This paper explores how dark matter admixture in rotating white dwarfs can explain peculiar observations, predict new stable rapid rotators, and provide gravitational-wave signatures for dark matter detection.
Contribution
It introduces a self-consistent model of dark matter-admixed rotating white dwarfs and links their properties to observable phenomena and gravitational-wave signatures.
Findings
Dark matter admixture explains deviations in mass-radius relation.
Stable, rapid-rotating white dwarfs without thermonuclear runaway are possible.
Universal I-Love-Q relations are modified by dark matter presence.
Abstract
The discoveries of anomalous compact objects challenge our understanding of the standard theory of stellar structures and evolution. They serve as an excellent laboratory to search for new physics. Earlier studies on spherically symmetric dark matter-admixed compact stars could explain a handful of anomalies. In this paper, we investigate the observational signatures of dark matter (DM)-admixed rotating white dwarfs and make connections to observed peculiar white dwarfs. We compute the equilibrium structures of DM-admixed rotating white dwarfs using a self-consistent, two-fluid method, with the DM component being a non-rotating degenerate fermi gas. We find that the admixture of DM in rotating white dwarfs could: (1) account for some peculiar white dwarfs that do not follow their usual mass-radius relation, (2) allow the existence of stable, rapid-rotating white dwarfs that are free…
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Taxonomy
TopicsDark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena · Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies · Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
