Primordial Intermediate-mass Binary Black Holes as Targets for Space Laser Interferometers
Abstract
Primordial black holes (PBHs) with log-normal mass spectrum with masses up to can be created after QCD phase transition in the early Universe at by the modified Affleck-Dine baryogenesis. Using a model binary PBH formation, the expected detection rate of such binary intermediate-mass PBHs by the TianQin space laser interferometer is calculated to be from a few to hundreds events per year for the assumed parameters of the PBH log-normal mass spectrum and abundance consistent with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA results. Distinctive features of such primordial IMBH mergings are vanishingly small effective spins, possible high redshifts and lack of association with gas-rich regions or galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.2407.16373,
title = {Primordial Intermediate-mass Binary Black Holes as Targets for Space Laser Interferometers},
author = {Konstantin Postnov and Ilya Chekh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16373},
year = {2024}
}
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11 pages, 5 figures, prepared for the proceedings of the seventh international workshop on the TianQin science mission