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Prospects for probing gravitational waves from primordial black hole binaries

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-10-14 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the prospects of future gravitational wave (GW) detectors in probing primordial black hole (PBH) binaries. We show that across a broad mass range from 105M10^{-5}M_\odot to 107M10^7M_\odot, future GW interferometers provide a potential probe of the PBH abundance that is more sensitive than any currently existing experiment. In particular, we find that galactic PBH binaries with masses as low as 105M10^{-5}M_\odot may be probed with ET, AEDGE and LISA by searching for nearly monochromatic continuous GW signals. Such searches could independently test the PBH interpretation of the ultrashort microlensing events observed by OGLE. We also consider the possibility of observing GWs from asteroid mass PBH binaries through graviton-photon conversion.

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@article{arxiv.2107.03379,
  title  = {Prospects for probing gravitational waves from primordial black hole binaries},
  author = {Oriol Pujolas and Ville Vaskonen and Hardi Veermäe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03379},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures. published version