Axion resonances in binary pulsar systems

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/03/061MaRDI QIDQ5068439zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mor Rozner, Evgeni Grishin, Yonadav Barry Ginat, Andrei P. Igoshev, Vincent Desjacques

Publication date 6 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01958

zbMATH Keywords

axionsdark matter theorymillisecond pulsars

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes) (60G35) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We investigate the extent to which resonances between an oscillating background of ultra-light axion and a binary Keplerian system can affect the motion of the latter. These resonances lead to perturbations in the instantaneous time-of-arrivals, and to secular variations in the period of the binary. While the secular changes at exact resonance have recently been explored, the instantaneous effects have been overlooked. In this paper, we examine the latter using N-body simulations including the external oscillatory forcing induced by the axion background. While the secular effects are restricted to a narrow width near the resonance, the instantaneous changes, albeit strongest close to resonances, are apparent for wide range of configurations. We compute the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as a function of semi-major axis for a detection of axion oscillations through the R{o} mer delay. The latter can be extracted from the time-of-arrivals of binary pulsars. The SNR broadly increases with increasing binary eccentricity in agreement with the secular expectation. However, we find that it differs significantly from the scaling a^{5/2} around the lowest orders of resonance. Future observations could probe these effects away from resonances and, therefore, constrain a much broader range of axion masses provided that binary pulsar systems are found near the central region of our Galaxy, and that the time-or-arrival measurement accuracy reaches < 10 ns

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