Using PyCBC to Model the Influence of Dark Matter Halo on Black Hole-Neutron Star Inspirals*

• What we want to know: Does the presence non self-interacting (asymmetric) dark matter, that is in a halo around a Neutron Star, influence the waveform during the inspiral of a Black Hole/Neutron Star Merger? We then model the DM disruption after that of the tidal disruption event between a star and black hole, where we take the dark matter halo from the NS to be the stellar mass thats pulled from NS. Where we then consider the parameters for a NS-BH merger, and then we use Kepler’s 3rd Law to determine the orbital frequency of the merger at the tidal radius. (Where R* is the DM halo radius, and M* is the mass of the neutron star and the DM halo mass put together.)