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Primordial Intermediate-mass Binary Black Holes as Targets for Space Laser Interferometers

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-07-24 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with log-normal mass spectrum with masses up to 104105M\sim 10^4-10^5 M_\odot can be created after QCD phase transition in the early Universe at z1012z\sim 10^{12} 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 z>20z>20 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}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures, prepared for the proceedings of the seventh international workshop on the TianQin science mission

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