Gravitational interaction of ultralight dark matter with interferometers

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Erscheinungsjahr:
2023
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Schlagworte:
  • High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
  • Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
  • General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Beschreibung:
  • Ultralight dark matter exhibits an order-one density fluctuation over the spatial scale of its wavelength. These fluctuations gravitationally interact with gravitational wave interferometers, leading to an additional noise floor or signals. We investigate the ultralight dark matter-induced effects in the gravitational wave interferometers. We perform a systematic computation of the power spectrum of ultralight dark matter in interferometers. We show that the ultralight dark matter-induced effect is most relevant for the interferometers with long baseline and that it only constitutes a sub-leading noise floor compared to the estimated noise level in the case of Laser Interferometer Space Antenna or future interferometers with an arm-length comparable to a few astronomical units. Gravitational wave interferometers can then place upper limits on the ultralight dark matter density in the solar system. We find that, under certain assumptions, future interferometers with AU-scale arm-length might probe the dark matter density a few hundred times the local dark matter density, which is measured over a much larger spatial scale.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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