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Searching for Dark Matter with Neutron Star Mergers and Quiet Kilonovae

Bramante, Joseph, Linden, Tim, Tsai, Yu-Dai

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We identify new astrophysical signatures of dark matter that implodes neutron stars (NSs), which could decisively test whether NS-imploding dark matter is responsible for missing pulsars in the Milky Way galactic center, the source of some $r$-process elements, and the origin of fast-radio bursts.

First, NS-imploding dark matter forms $\sim 10^{-10}$ solar mass or smaller black holes inside neutron stars, which proceed to convert neutron stars into $\sim$1.5 solar mass BHs.
This decreases the number of neutron star mergers seen by LIGO/Virgo (LV) and associated merger kilonovae seen by telescopes like DES, BlackGEM, and ZTF, and instead, producing a population of "black mergers" containing $\sim$1.5 solar mass black holes.
Second, dark matter-induced neutron star implosions may create a new kind of kilonovae that lacks a detectable, accompanying gravitational signal, which we call "quiet kilonovae." Using DES data and the Milky Way's r-process abundance, we constrain quiet kilonovae.

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