Excluding Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Based on Solar System Ephemeris
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2024-09-10 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Current cosmological constraints allow primordial black holes (PBHs) to constitute dark matter in the mass range of -g. We show that a major portion of this logarithmic window can be ruled-out based on the Solar System ephemeris, given that the external mass enclosed within 50 au from the Sun did not change by more than solar masses per year in recent decades.
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@article{arxiv.2408.10799,
title = {Excluding Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Based on Solar System Ephemeris},
author = {Abraham Loeb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10799},
year = {2024}
}
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Accepted for publication in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (August 2024), 4 pages