The paper identifies Palomar mysterious transients as flashes from spallation of axion quark nugget dark matter hitting the atmosphere, with rates and features claimed consistent with VASCO observations.
Telescope Array Bursts, Radio Pulses and Axion Quark Nuggets
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Telescope Array (TA) experiment has recorded \cite{Abbasi:2017rvx,Okuda_2019} several short time bursts of air shower like events. These bursts are very distinct from conventional single showers, and are found to be strongly correlated with lightnings. In our previous work \cite{Zhitnitsky:2020shd} we proposed that these bursts represent the direct manifestation of the dark matter (DM) annihilation events within the so-called axion quark nugget (AQN) model. In the present work we suggest to test this proposal to search for the radio signals in frequency band $\nu\in (0.5-200)$ MHz which must be synchronized with the TA bursts. We argued that the conventional lightning-induced radio emission can be easily discriminated from the AQN-induced radio pulses discussed in this work.
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Mysterious Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-1) as profound manifestation of the Dark Matter physics
The paper identifies Palomar mysterious transients as flashes from spallation of axion quark nugget dark matter hitting the atmosphere, with rates and features claimed consistent with VASCO observations.