English

Gravitational wave microlensing by dressed primordial black holes

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-07-14 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We study gravitational wave microlensing by primordial black holes (PBHs), accounting for the effect of a particle dark matter minihalo surrounding them. Such minihaloes are expected when PBHs make up only a fraction of all dark matter. We find that the LIGO-Virgo detections imply a 1σ1\sigma bound on the abundance of PBHs heavier than 50M50 M_{\odot}. The next generation observatories can potentially probe PBHs as light as 0.01M0.01 M_\odot and down to 2×1042\times10^{-4} fraction of all dark matter. We also show that these detectors can distinguish between dressed and naked PBHs, providing a novel way to study the distribution of particle dark matter around black holes and potentially shed light on the origins of black holes.

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@article{arxiv.2303.17601,
  title  = {Gravitational wave microlensing by dressed primordial black holes},
  author = {Juan Urrutia and Ville Vaskonen and Hardi Veermäe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.17601},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Minor updated, Accepted for publication in PRD