English

Gravitational wave constraints on extended dark matter structures

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-03-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We generalise existing constraints on primordial black holes to dark objects with extended sizes using the aLIGO design sensitivity. We show that LIGO is sensitive to dark objects with radius O(10103 km)O(10-10^3~{\rm km}) if they make up more than O(102103)\sim O(10^{-2}-10^{-3}) of dark matter.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2205.15396,
  title  = {Gravitational wave constraints on extended dark matter structures},
  author = {Djuna Croon and Seyda Ipek and David McKeen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.15396},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures. Version accepted in PRD

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