Solar radio emissions and ultralight dark matter

Understand

Ultralight axions and dark photons are well-motivated dark matter candidates.

• Inside the plasma, once the mass of ultralight dark matter candidates equals the plasma frequency, they can resonantly convert into electromagnetic waves, due to the coupling between the ultralight dark matter particles and the standard model photons.
• The converted electromagnetic waves are monochromatic.
• In this article, we review the development of using radio detectors to search for ultralight dark matter conversions in the solar corona and solar wind plasma.