Primordial black hole formation in the matter-dominated phase of the Universe
Abstract
We investigate primordial black hole formation in the matter-dominated phase of the Universe, where nonspherical effects in gravitational collapse play a crucial role. This is in contrast to the black hole formation in a radiation-dominated era. We apply the Zel'dovich approximation, Thorne's hoop conjecture, and Doroshkevich's probability distribution and subsequently derive the production probability of primordial black holes. The numerical result obtained is applicable even if the density fluctuation at horizon entry is of the order of unity. For , we find a semi-analytic formula , which is comparable with the Khlopov-Polnarev formula. We find that the production probability in the matter-dominated era is much larger than that in the radiation-dominated era for , while they are comparable with each other for . We also discuss how can be written in terms of primordial curvature perturbations.
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@article{arxiv.1609.01588,
title = {Primordial black hole formation in the matter-dominated phase of the Universe},
author = {Tomohiro Harada and Chul-Moon Yoo and Kazunori Kohri and Ken-ichi Nakao and Sanjay Jhingan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01588},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
12 pages, 1 figure, minor correction, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal