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Axion Star Explosions: A New Source for Axion Indirect Detection

Escudero, Miguel, Pooni, Charis Kaur, Fairbairn, Malcolm et al.

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If dark matter is composed of axions, then axion stars form in the cores of dark matter halos.

These stars are unstable above a critical mass, decaying to radio photons that heat the intergalactic medium, offering a new channel for axion indirect detection.
We recently provided the first accurate calculation of the axion decay rate due to axion star mergers.
In this work we show how existing data concerning the CMB optical depth leads to strong constraints on the axion photon coupling in the mass range $10^{-14}\,{\rm eV}\lesssim m_a\lesssim 10^{-8}\,{\rm eV}$.

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