Millisecond pulsars modelled as strange quark stars admixed with condensed dark matter

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We study for the first time how a new class of stars could impact an ensemble of pulsars with known masses and spin-periods.

• These new compact objects are strange stars admixed with condensed dark matter.
• In this exploratory theoretical work, our goal is to determine how the basic parameters of pulsars are modified for such a new class of compact objects.
• In particular we consider three different scenarios that correspond to a dark matter mass fraction of $~5\%$, $~11\%$ and $~25\%$.