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Globular Cluster Seeding by Primordial Black Hole Population

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-04-26 v2

Abstract

Primordial black holes (PBHs) that form in the early Universe in the modified Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism of baryogenesis should have intrinsic log-normal mass distribution of PBHs. We show that the parameters of this distribution adjusted to provide the required spatial density of massive seeds (104M\ge 10^4 M_\odot) for early galaxy formation and not violating the dark matter density constraints, predict the existence of the population of intermediate-mass PBHs with a number density of 1000\sim 1000~Mpc3^{-3}. We argue that the population of intermediate-mass AD PBHs can also seed the formation of globular clusters in galaxies. In this scenario, each globular cluster should host an intermediate-mass black hole with a mass of a few thousand solar masses, and should not obligatorily be immersed in a massive dark matter halo.

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@article{arxiv.1702.07621,
  title  = {Globular Cluster Seeding by Primordial Black Hole Population},
  author = {A. Dolgov and K. Postnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07621},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures, revised version submitted to JCAP after referee's notes

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