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arxiv:2610.04282

Dark matter in neutron stars: two-fluid f-mode oscillations in full general relativity

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Self-interacting bosonic dark matter admixed in neutron stars produces distinct f-mode branches with damping times and frequencies sensitive to dark matter fraction, equation of state, and core versus halo geometry.

A dark-matter core and a soft nuclear equation of state can produce similar mass--radius signatures, motivating a complementary probe through the f-mode spectrum. We compute quadrupolar f-mode frequencies and gravitational-wave damping times in full general relativity for cold, nonrotating neutron stars admixed with self-interacting bosonic dark matter (DM). Our two-fluid survey spans 21 nuclear equations of state covering nucleonic, hyperonic, Δ-admixed, and combined hyperon--Δ compositions at F_{rm DM}=1--20%. The main sequences use λ=π and boson masses of 500 and 100,MeV for the core and halo studies, respectively. Independent normal-matter (NM) and DM displacements couple through the metric, yielding NM-led and DM-led f-mode branches whose radiative damping is determined by outgoing-wave boundary conditions. At 1.4,M_odot, the core DM-led damping time decreases from order 10^3,s at F_{rm DM}=1% to order 1,s at 20%, approximately following an empirical F_{rm DM}^{-2} dependence, while NM-led damping times remain within 0.12--0.33,s. Halo DM-led damping instead increases with dark fraction: at the same stellar mass and F_{rm DM}=20%, dark radii approach 88,km, frequencies fall to 0.14,kHz, and damping times reach approximately 450,s. Selected high-mass core sequences exhibit strong DM-led damping-time upturns not reproduced by the leading mass-quadrupole diagnostic. Representative core calculations show greater DM-led sensitivity to the bosonic self-coupling and retain both branches at ell=3. Under the adopted nonrotating, circular-binary prescriptions, no evaluated configuration satisfies all geometric and perturbative conditions for a controlled linear tidal resonance.

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