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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 101810^{18}-102210^{22}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 5×1014\sim 5\times 10^{-14} 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