Quark stars admixed with dark matter

Understand

Compact stars consisting of massless quark matter and fermionic dark matter are studied by solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for two fluids separately.

• Dark matter is further investigated by incorporating inter-fermionic interactions among the dark matter particles.
• The properties of stars made of quark matter particles and self-interacting and free dark matter particles are explored by obtaining their mass-radius relations.
• The regions of stability for such a compact star are determined and it is demonstrated that the maximum stable total mass of such a star decreases approximately linearly with increasing dark matter fraction.