Astrophysical appearances of primordial black holes
Abstract
Interest to astrophysical evidence for primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe from initial cosmological perturbations has increased after the discovery of coalescing binary black holes with masses more than dozen solar ones by gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. We briefly discuss increasing evidence that PBHs can provide some fraction of detected merging binary BHs and can be related to an isotropic stochastic GW background recently discovered by pulsar timing arrays. We focus on PBHs with log-normal mass spectrum originated from isocurvature perturbations in the modified Affleck-Dine baryogenesis scenario by Dolgov and Silk (1993). We show that almost equal populations of astrophysical binary BHs from massive binary evolution and binary PBHs with log-normal mass spectrum can describe both the observed chirp mass distribution and effective spin -- mass ratio anti-correlation of the LVK binary BHs.
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@article{arxiv.2309.16246,
title = {Astrophysical appearances of primordial black holes},
author = {Konstantin Postnov and Aleksandre Kuranov and Nikita Mitichkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16246},
year = {2023}
}
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14 pages, 3 figures, Paper presented at the Fifth Zeldovich meeting, an international conference in honor of Ya. B. Zeldovich held in Yerevan, Armenia on June 12--16, 2023. Submitted to Astronomy Reports by the recommendation of the special editors: R. Ruffini, N. Sahakyan and G. V. Vereshchagin