SKA sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter decay: Synchrotron radio emissions in white dwarf magnetospheres

Kenji Kadota (School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (HIAS-UCAS), Hangzhou 310024, China; International Centre for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific (ICTP-AP), Beijing/Hangzhou, China) ; Shota Kisaka (Physics Program, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan)

We investigate the potential of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in detecting synchrotron radiation emitted from the decay of sub-GeV dark matter (dark matter with masses below the GeV scale) in the presence of strong magnetic fields. As a concrete setup, we consider scenarios where the magnetosphere of a magnetic white dwarf overlaps with dense dark matter environments, such as those surrounding a primordial black hole. Our study reveals that the encounters of compact objects such as white dwarfs and black holes offer a promising avenue for upcoming radio telescopes to probe the properties of light dark matter, which has been less explored compared with more conventional heavier (masses above the GeV scale) dark matter.

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Published on:
29 April 2024
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 109 (2024)
Issue 8
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.083533
arXiv:
2312.02707
Copyrights:
Published by the American Physical Society
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CC-BY-4.0

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