English

Forecasting Constraint on Primordial Black Hole Properties with the CSST $3\times2$pt Analysis

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-05-28 v3

Abstract

This study forecasts the constraints on the properties of primordial black holes (PBHs) as a cold dark matter component using the galaxy clustering, weak lensing, and galaxy-galaxy lensing (i.e. 3×23\times2pt) measurements from the upcoming Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) photometric survey. Since PBHs formed via gravitational collapse in the early Universe, they can additionally affect the formation and evolution of the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) through ``Poisson" effect. We compute the angular power spectra for PBH-Λ\LambdaCDM cosmology, and generate mock data based on the CSST instrumental and survey design. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is employed to constrain the free parameters, such as the product of the PBH fraction and mass fPBHmPBHf_{\rm PBH}m_{\rm PBH} and other cosmological parameters. The systematic parameters are also included in the fitting process, such as the parameters of the baryonic effect, intrinsic alignment, galaxy bias, photometric redshift (photo-zz) calibration, shear calibration, and noise terms. We find that the CSST 3×\times2pt analysis can achieve tight constraints on fPBHmPBHf_{\rm PBH}m_{\rm PBH}, with 68% and 95% confidence levels (CLs) reaching <103.9M<10^{3.9} M_{\odot} and <104.7M<10^{4.7} M_{\odot}, respectively. Additionally, the cosmological parameters, e.g. Ωm\Omega_m, σ8\sigma_8 and ww, can be constrained with the precisions of 3.3%, 1.7%, 13%, respectively. This indicates that the CSST 3×\times2pt analysis is a powerful tool to advance the PBH dark matter studies in the near future.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.22575,
  title  = {Forecasting Constraint on Primordial Black Hole Properties with the CSST $3\times2$pt Analysis},
  author = {Dingao Hu and Yan Gong and Pengfei Su and Hengjie Lin and Haitao Miao and Qi Xiong and Xuelei Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22575},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

20 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in JCAP