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Detecting Planet 9 via Hawking radiation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-01-29 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Concordant evidence points towards the existence of a ninth planet in the Solar System at more than 400400\,AU from the Sun. In particular, trans-Neptunian object orbits are perturbed by the presence of a putative gravitational source. Since this planet has not yet been observationally found with conventional telescope research, it has been argued that it could be a dark compact object, namely a black hole of probably primordial origin. Within this assumption, we discuss the possibility of detecting Planet 9 via a sub-relativistic spacecraft fly-by and the measure of its Hawking radiation in the radio band and conclude that it is too faint compared to the CMB. We thus present other perspectives with rather a satellite mission and conclude that smaller black holes would give much more interesting signals. We emphasize the importance of the study of such Hawking radiation laboratories in the Solar System.

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@article{arxiv.2006.02944,
  title  = {Detecting Planet 9 via Hawking radiation},
  author = {Alexandre Arbey and Jérémy Auffinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.02944},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures, text completed and units corrected

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