Generalized ray tracing for axions in astrophysical plasmas
J. I. McDonald, Samuel J. Witte
Abstract
The authors present a ``ray-tracing'' framework to compute radio emission associated with axion-photon conversion in the vicinity of magnetars. They show that future radio telescopes should be able to explore QCD axion parameter space, independently from a magnetar's astrophysical model.
Topics & Concepts
MagnetarAxionPhysicsTracingAstrophysicsPhotonPlasmaRay tracing (physics)Parameter spaceAstronomyNuclear physicsNeutron starDark matterOpticsOperating systemComputer scienceMathematicsStatisticsDark Matter and Cosmic PhenomenaParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena