Probing Extragalactic Ultralight Axion Dark Matter with Decade-long Blazar Optical Polarimetry of 1ES 1959+650

arXiv:2511.05839 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph · Submitted 2025-11-08 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph

Submitted: 2025-11-08

Updated: 2026-09-24

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for Publication in Physical Review Letters

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

Terminology

• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Monte Carlo Analysis — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Event Horizon Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• pulsar timing arrays — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Power Spectra and WMAP-Derived Parameters
• Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection
• Current status of direct dark matter detection experiments
• Axion-like Dark Matter Constraints from CMB Birefringence
• Gravitational wave probes of dark matter: challenges and opportunities
• The Low-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics
• Ultralight scalars as cosmological dark matter
• Small-scale structure of fuzzy and axion-like dark matter
• Searching for dark-matter waves with PPTA and QUIJOTE pulsar polarimetry
• Pulsar Polarization Array Limits on Ultralight Axion-like Dark Matter
• Detecting Extragalactic Axion-like Dark Matter with Polarization Measurements of Fast Radio Bursts
• Synchrotron Polarization in Blazars
• Long-term optical polarization variability and multiwavelength analysis of Blazar Mrk 421
• POLAMI: Polarimetric Monitoring of Active Galactic Nuclei at Millimetre Wavelengths. I. The program, calibration, and calibrators data products
• Probing the Scale of ALP Interactions with Fermi Blazars
• Hint at an axion-like particle from the redshift dependence of blazar spectra
• Searching for Axion-Like Particles with the Blazar Observations of MAGIC and Fermi-LAT
• ALP induced polarization effects on photons from blazars
• Impact of Parameters in the Blazar Jet Magnetic Field Model on Axion-Like Particle Constraints
• Exploring Constraints on Axion-like Particles with the Observations for blazar Mrk 501

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