X-ray emission from neutron stars in dark clusters

Two classes of neutron stars may exist in the galactic halo: neutron stars originating in the disk with high velocities and neutron stars originating in globular clusters (via Type II supernovae and/or accretion induced collapse).Moreover, the halo dark matter is likely in the form of dark clusters composed of MACHOs and cold molecular clouds. Here we propose a model in which neutron stars crossing dark clusters in the galactic halo accrete material and emit in the X-ray band. The detection of these X-ray sources whose luminosity can span several orders of magnitude from ∼ 1033 to ∼ 1037 erg s−1 could be already done by ROSAT.