Neutron stars and Pulsar timing arrays as Axion giant gyroscopes

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Main Authors: Liu, Yiming, Luo, Jinneng, Sun, Sichun
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author Liu, Yiming
Luo, Jinneng
Sun, Sichun
author_facet Liu, Yiming
Luo, Jinneng
Sun, Sichun
contents We consider the three-dimensional rotating motions of neutron stars blown by the "axion wind". Neutron star precession and spin can change from the magnetic moment coupling to the oscillating axion background field, in analogy to the gyroscope motions with a driving force and the laboratory Nuclear Magnetic Resonance(NMR) detections of the axion. This effect modulates the pulse arrival time of the pulsar timing arrays. It shows up as a signal on the timing residual and two-point correlation function on the recent data of Nanograv and PPTA. The current measurement of PTAs can thus cast constraints on the axion-nucleon coupling as g_{ann} ~ 10^{-12}{GeV}^{-1}.
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spellingShingle Neutron stars and Pulsar timing arrays as Axion giant gyroscopes
Liu, Yiming
Luo, Jinneng
Sun, Sichun
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We consider the three-dimensional rotating motions of neutron stars blown by the "axion wind". Neutron star precession and spin can change from the magnetic moment coupling to the oscillating axion background field, in analogy to the gyroscope motions with a driving force and the laboratory Nuclear Magnetic Resonance(NMR) detections of the axion. This effect modulates the pulse arrival time of the pulsar timing arrays. It shows up as a signal on the timing residual and two-point correlation function on the recent data of Nanograv and PPTA. The current measurement of PTAs can thus cast constraints on the axion-nucleon coupling as g_{ann} ~ 10^{-12}{GeV}^{-1}.
title Neutron stars and Pulsar timing arrays as Axion giant gyroscopes
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13480