Transient axion streams from disrupted miniclusters

arXiv:2605.28005 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-05-27 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-05-27

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures

DOI: 10.1103/d559-xlbr

Code: https://github.com/bradkav/axionminiclusters

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Velocity Dispersion — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Monte Carlo framework — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dynamical regimes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Axion Cosmology
• The landscape of QCD axion models
• The COSMIC WISPers White Paper: The physics case for Weakly Interacting Slim Particles
• Non-Linear Axion Dynamics and Formation of Cosmological Pseudo-Solitons
• Axion Miniclusters and Bose Stars
• Fast Radio Bursts and Axion Miniclusters
• Tidal streams from axion miniclusters and direct axion searches
• Axion cosmology with long-lived domain walls
• Production of dark matter axions from collapse of string-wall systems
• Axion dark matter: strings and their cores
• The dark-matter axion mass
• Axions from Strings: the Attractive Solution
• Early-Universe Simulations of the Cosmological Axion
• More Axions from Strings
• Dark Matter from Axion Strings with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
• Axion mass prediction from adaptive mesh refinement cosmological lattice simulations
• Spectrum of global string networks and the axion dark matter mass
• Structure Formation and Microlensing with Axion Miniclusters
• Axion minicluster power spectrum and mass function
• Early seeds of axion miniclusters

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