| Publication Type |
Manuscript |
| School or College |
College of Science |
| Department |
Physics |
| Creator |
Gondolo, Paolo |
| Other Author |
Freese, K.; Bodenheimer P.; Spolyar, D. |
| Title |
Dark Stars: the first stars in the universe may be powered by dark matter healing |
| Date |
2009 |
| Description |
A new line of research on Dark Stars is reviewed, which suggests that the first stars to exist in the universe were powered by dark matter heating rather than by fusion. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, which may be there own antipartmers, collect inside the first stars and annihilate to produce a heat source that can power the stars. A new stellar phase results, a Dark Star, powered by dark matter annihilation as long as there is dark matter fuel. |
| Type |
Text |
| Publisher |
American Institute of Physics (AIP) |
| Journal Title |
AIP Conference Proceedings |
| Volume |
1166 |
| First Page |
1 |
| Last Page |
6 |
| Subject |
Dark stars; WIMP; Weakly interacting massive particles |
| Subject LCSH |
Dark matter (Astronomy); Stars -- Formation; Stars -- Evolution; Cosmology |
| Language |
eng |
| Bibliographic Citation |
Freese, K., Bodenheimer P., Gondolo, P., & Spolyar, D. (2009). Dark Stars: the first stars in the Universe may be powered by dark matter healing. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1166, 33-8. |
| Rights Management |
(c)American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in by Freese, K., Bodenheimer P., Gondolo, P., & Spolyar, D. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1166 2009 and may be found at (URL/link for published article abstract). Preprint arxiv:0812.4844 [astro-ph] (Dec 2008) |
| Format Medium |
application/pdf |
| Format Extent |
411,844 bytes |
| Identifier |
ir-main,9264 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6tx400s |
| Setname |
ir_uspace |
| ID |
706933 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tx400s |
