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21-cm constraints on spinning primordial black holes

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-03-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Hawking radiation from primordial black holes (PBH) can ionize and heat up neutral gas during the cosmic dark ages, leaving imprints on the global 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen. We use the global 21-cm signal to constrain the abundance of spinning PBHs in mass range of [2×1013,1018][2 \times 10^{13}, 10^{18}] grams. We consider several extended PBH distribution models. Our results show that 21-cm can set the most stringent PBH bounds in our mass window. Compared with constraints set by {\it Planck} cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, 21-cm limits are more stringent by about two orders of magnitudes. PBHs with higher spin are typically more strongly constrained. Our 21-cm constraints for the monochromatic mass distribution rule out spinless PBHs with initial mass below 1.5×1017 g˚1.5 \times 10^{17}\ \r{g}, whereas extreme Kerr PBHs with reduced initial spin of a0=0.999a_0=0.999 are excluded as the dominant dark matter component for masses below 6×1017 g˚6 \times 10^{17}\ \r{g}. We also derived limits for the log-normal, power-law and critical collapse PBH mass distributions.

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@article{arxiv.2108.13256,
  title  = {21-cm constraints on spinning primordial black holes},
  author = {Junsong Cang and Yu Gao and Yin-Zhe Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13256},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

JCAP accepted version, references added, some minor typos corrected. 22 pages, 6 figures