PIRSA:17050064

Revealing Dark Matter With Imploding Pulsars, White Dwarf Explosions, and Warm Neutron Stars

Bramante, J. (2017). Revealing Dark Matter With Imploding Pulsars, White Dwarf Explosions, and Warm Neutron Stars. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17050064

Bramante, Joseph. Revealing Dark Matter With Imploding Pulsars, White Dwarf Explosions, and Warm Neutron Stars. Perimeter Institute, May. 11, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17050064 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17050064,
            doi = {10.48660/17050064},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17050064},
            author = {Bramante, Joseph},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {Revealing Dark Matter With Imploding Pulsars, White Dwarf Explosions, and Warm Neutron Stars},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:17050064 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Joseph Bramante Queen's University

DOI 10.48660/17050064
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

I will first show that a number of persistent astrophysical puzzles, including missing pulsars in the galactic center, fast radio bursts, the abundance of r-process elements, and the type Ia supernova progenitor problem, may all be an emerging signature of dark matter. I will address some theoretical implications and new astrophysical phenomena -- for example "quiet kilonovae" and "r-process donuts" -- associated with this dark matter. Then, I will describe a newly discovered effect, that dark matter crashing into neutron stars warms them to infrared temperatures detectable with the Thirty Meter, European Extremely Large, and James Webb Space telescopes.