Testing non-minimally coupled BEC dark matter with gravitational waves

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Published 31 July 2020 © 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
, , Citation Dimitar Ivanov and Stefano Liberati JCAP07(2020)065 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/065

1475-7516/2020/07/065

Abstract

We study the phenomenology associated to non-minimally coupled dark matter. In particular, we consider the model where the non-minimal coupling arises from the formation of relativistic Bose-Einstein condensates in high density regions of dark matter [1]. This non-minimal coupling is of Horndeski type and leads to a local modification of the speed of gravity with respect to the speed of light. Therefore we can constrain the model by using the joint detection of GW170817 and GRB170817A. We show that the constraints obtained in this way are quite tight, if the dark matter field oscillates freely, whereas they are substantially weakened, if the oscillations are damped by the non-minimal coupling.

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