Resonant instability of axionic dark matter clumps

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/038MaRDI QIDQ5070281zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zi-Hang Wang, Lijing Shao, Li-Xin Li

Publication date 11 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09144

zbMATH Keywords

absorption and radiation processesaxionsdark matter theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: Axion is a popular candidate for dark matter particles. Axionic dark matter may form Bose-Einstein condensate and may be gravitationally bound to form axion clumps. Under the presence of electromagnetic waves with frequency $omega=m_a/2$, where $m_a$ is the axion mass, a resonant enhancement may occur, causing an instability of the axion clumps. With analytical and numerical approaches, we study the resonant instability of axionic dark matter clumps with infinite homogeneous mass distribution, as well as distribution with a finite boundary. After taking realistic astrophysical environments into consideration, including gravitational redshift and plasma effects, we obtain an instability region in the axion density-clump size parameter space with given mass and coupling of axions. In particular, we show that, for axion clumps formed by the QCD axions in equilibrium, no resonant instability will occur.

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