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Dark kinetic heating of neutron stars from contact interactions with relativistic targets
Dark matter can capture in neutron stars from scattering off ultrarelativistic electrons. We present a method to calculate the capture rate on degenerate targets with ultrarelativistic momenta in a compact astronomical object. Our treatment accounts for the target momentum and the Fermi degeneracy of the system. We derive scaling relations …