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We show that the gravitational wave signals from primordial black hole (PBH) binaries at high redshift can be detected. The detectability of PBH binaries is enhanced by redshift bias and more PBH binaries at high redshift. The initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Qianhang Ding

Primordial black holes (PBHs) arise from the collapse of density perturbations in the early universe and serve as a dark matter (DM) candidate and a probe of fundamental physics. There remains an unconstrained ``asteroid-mass'' window where…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Alexandra P. Klipfel , Peter Fisher , David I. Kaiser

Primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a compelling interpretation for the binary black holes (BBHs) observed by ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, especially for those BBHs in the theoretical mass gap. In the early Universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yan-Chen Bi , Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

High-precision pulsar timing is central to a wide range of astrophysics and fundamental physics applications. When timing an ensemble of millisecond pulsars in different sky positions, known as a pulsar timing array (PTA), one can search…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-09 R. N. Caballero

The possible existence of intermediate mass binary black holes (IMBBHs) in globular clusters (GCs) offers a unique geometry in which to detect space-time oscillations. For certain pulsar-IMBBH configurations possible within a GC, the usual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fredrick A. Jenet , Teviet Creighton , Andrea Lommen

Arrays of precisely-timed millisecond pulsars are used to search for gravitational waves with periods of months to decades. Gravitational waves affect the path of radio pulses propagating from a pulsar to Earth, causing the arrival times of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Stephen R. Taylor

Pulsar timing, i.e. the analysis of the arrival times of pulses from a pulsar, is a powerful tool in modern astrophysics. It allows us to measure the time delays of an electromagnetic signal caused by a number of physical processes as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Konstantin A. Postnov , Nataliya K. Porayko , Maxim S. Pshirkov

We study the capability of a pulsar timing array (PTA) to individually resolve and localize in the sky monochromatic gravitational wave (GW) sources. Given a cosmological population of inspiralling massive black hole binaries, their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Stanislav Babak , Alberto Sesana

The recently identified \textit{memory burden} effect has the potential to significantly decelerate the evaporation of black holes. Specifically, when approximately half of a black hole's initial mass has been radiated away, the evaporation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Xiu-hui Tan , Yu-feng Zhou

A pulsar timing array (PTA) refers to a program of regular, high-precision timing observations of a widely distributed array of millisecond pulsars. Here we review the status of the three primary PTA projects and the joint International…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 George Hobbs , Shi Dai

In this paper, we examine whether low-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) can be considered a plausible dark matter candidate in galactic halos. We derive the relativistic dynamics of PBHs around the heavy compact objects and evaluate their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 Sohrab Rahvar

The primordial black hole (PBH) is an effective candidate for dark matter. In this work, the PBH abundance $f$ is calculated in peak theory, with one or two perturbations in the inflaton potential. We construct an antisymmetric perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 Qing Wang , Yi-Chen Liu , Bing-Yu Su , Nan Li

The evidence of the stochastic gravitational-wave background around the nano-hertz frequency range was recently found by worldwide pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations. One of the cosmological explanations is the gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Keisuke Harigaya , Keisuke Inomata , Takahiro Terada

Pulsar timing provides a sensitive probe of small-scale structure. Gravitational perturbations arising from an inhomogeneous environment could manifest as detectable perturbations in the pulsation phase. Consequently, pulsar timing arrays…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-23 M. Sten Delos , Tim Linden

The vast datasets associated with extrasolar systems promise to offer sensitive probes of new physics in the near future. We consider the possibility that such systems may capture primordial black holes (PBHs) or other exotic compact…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Benjamin V. Lehmann , Ava Webber , Olivia G. Ross , Stefano Profumo

Dark Matter (DM) is omnipresent in our universe. Despite its abundance, the microscopic identity of DM still remains a mystery. Primordial black holes (PBHs), possibly formed via gravitational collapse of large density perturbations in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Anupam Ray

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) created early in the universe are dark matter candidates. One method of detecting these PBHs is through their Hawking radiation. PBHs created with an initial mass of 5.0 x 10^14 g should be evaporating today…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-23 T. U. Ukwatta , D. Stump , J. T. Linnemann , K. Tollefson , V. Vasileiou , G. Sinnis , J. H. MacGibbon

In the mass range of 1e15 g up to 1e26 g, primordial black holes (PBHs) as a possible contribution to the dark matter are still unexplored. In this contribution, we investigate the possibility of an electromagnetic signal from PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-20 Julia K. Becker , Marek A. Abramowicz , Peter L. Biermann

We revisit the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) by a U(1) gauge field with a pseudo-scalar coupling to the inflaton. We improve upon the existing literature by working in the homogeneous backreaction regime with numerically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Gabriele Franciolini , Nadir Ijaz , Marco Peloso

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the most appealing dark matter candidates over a wide range of masses and abundances. This broad parameter space has been constrained by a variety of observational probes. In this work, for the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Joaquim Iguaz Juan