Search for compact dark matter objects in the solar system with LIGO data

C. J. Horowitz; M. A. Papa; S. Reddy

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135072

Search for compact dark matter objects in the solar system with LIGO data

C. J. Horowitz, M. A. Papa, S. Reddy

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Dark matter could be composed of compact dark objects (CDOs). A close binary of CDOs orbiting in the interior of solar system bodies can be a loud source of gravitational waves (GWs) for the LIGO and VIRGO detectors. We perform the first search ever for this type of signal and rule out close binaries, with separations of order 300 m, orbiting near the center of the Sun with GW frequencies (twice the orbital frequency) between 50 and 550 Hz and CDO masses above ≈10⁻⁹M_⊙. This mass limit is eight orders of magnitude lower than the mass probed in a LIGO search at extra galactic distances.

Original language	English
Article number	135072
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	800
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135072
State	Published - 10 Jan 2020
Externally published	Yes

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CJH thanks the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover for its hospitality. CJH is supported in part by DOE grants DE-FG02-87ER40365 and DE-SC0018083 . SR acknowledges support from the US Department of Energy Grant No. DE-FG02-00ER41132 . This research has made use of data, software and/or web tools obtained from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center ( https://www.gw-openscience.org ), a service of LIGO Laboratory, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. LIGO is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Virgo is funded by the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Italian Istituto Nazionale della Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the Dutch Nikhef, with contributions by Polish and Hungarian institutes. CJH thanks the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover for its hospitality. CJH is supported in part by DOE grants DE-FG02-87ER40365 and DE-SC0018083. SR acknowledges support from the US Department of Energy Grant No. DE-FG02-00ER41132. This research has made use of data, software and/or web tools obtained from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (https://www.gw-openscience.org), a service of LIGO Laboratory, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. LIGO is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Virgo is funded by the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Italian Istituto Nazionale della Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the Dutch Nikhef, with contributions by Polish and Hungarian institutes.

Funders	Funder number
French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
Gravitational Wave Open Science Center
Polish and Hungarian institutes
U.S. National Science Foundation
US Department of Energy	DE-FG02-00ER41132
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy	DE-SC0018083, DE-FG02-87ER40365
College of Natural Resources and Sciences, Humboldt State University
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

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