Detecting Dark Matter with Neutron Star Spectroscopy

Understand

The presence of dark matter has been ascertained through a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena and its nature is a central puzzle in modern science.

• Elementary particles stand as the most compelling explanation.
• They have been intensively searched for at underground laboratories looking for an energy recoil signal and at telescopes sifting for excess events in gamma-ray or cosmic-ray observations.
• In this work, we investigate a detection method based on spectroscopy measurements of neutron stars.