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Ultralight Dark Matter and Pulsars

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2022

Abstract

Dark matter (DM) can consist of very light bosons behaving as a classical field that experiences coherent oscillations. If a binary system is surrounded by DM, it could perturb the system's dynamics via both gravitational and direct interactions, leading to secular changes of orbital parameters.

The secular changes could be detected in pulsar timing measurements, giving us constraints on coupling constants. This talk gives an overview of this topic and an outline of future plans.