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We investigate constraints on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range 10^{15}-10^{17} g using data from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and MeV extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Hawking radiation from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Steven Clark , Bhaskar Dutta , Yu Gao , Louis E. Strigari , Scott Watson

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

We study the matter power spectrum constraint on primordial black holes (PBH) by the dark matter (DM) emitted through Hawking radiation. We particularly focus on the scenario where PBH, with mass ranges between 1g and $10^9$g, evaporates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Yu-Ming Chen

Ultracompact primordial black hole binaries with masses > 10^{16} g are considered. If PBHB's contribute significant part of the dark matter of the Galaxy one can expect an existence of high-frequent non-thermal diffuse gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 J. N. Abdurashitov , V. E. Yants , C. V. Parfenov

We investigate the constraint on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) and the spectral index $n$ of primeval density perturbations given by the ionizing photon background at the epoch of reionization. Within the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping He , Li-Zhi Fang

Primordial black holes (PBH), supposedly formed in the very early Universe, have been proposed as a possible viable dark matter candidate. In this work we characterize the expected gravitational wave (GW) losses from a population of PBHs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-20 Stefano Bondani , Matteo Bonetti , Luca Broggi , Francesco Haardt , Alberto Sesana , Massimo Dotti

The particles emitted from PBHs through the Hawking radiation have interactions with the particles present in the Universe. Due to the interactions, the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) is changed and the changes have imprints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Yupeng Yang

The formation of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter and the generation of scalar induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs) have been studied in the generic no-scale supergravity inflationary models. By adding an exponential term to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-30 Lina Wu , Yungui Gong , Tianjun Li

In this paper, we update the peak theory for the estimation of the primordial black hole (PBH) abundance, particularly by implementing the critical behavior in the estimation of the PBH mass and employing the averaged compaction function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Naoya Kitajima , Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Chul-Moon Yoo

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) could be the cold dark matter of the universe. They could have arisen from large (order one) curvature fluctuations produced during inflation that reentered the horizon in the radiation era. At reentry, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Marco Peloso , Caner Unal

Surprisingly high masses of the black holes inferred from the LIGO & Virgo gravitational wave measurements have lead to speculations that the observed mergers might be due to ${\cal O}(10) M_\odot$ primordial black holes (PBHs).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Andi Hektor , Gert Hütsi , Martti Raidal

We discuss the effect of local type non-Gaussianity on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBH) based on the peak theory. We provide the PBH formation criterion based on the so-called compaction function and use the peak theory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Chul-Moon Yoo , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Shuichiro Yokoyama

In this study, we investigate the scenario in which the stochastic signal arises from primordial gravitational waves. Within this framework, we consider two distinct possibilities: one in which the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jun Li , Guanghai Guo , Pengfei Yan

Primordial black holes and secondary gravitational waves can be used to probe the small scale physics at very early time. For secondary gravitational waves produced after the horizon reentry, we derive an analytical formula for the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-25 Yizhou Lu , Yungui Gong , Zhu Yi , Fengge Zhang

In this study, we investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in a scalar field inflationary model coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term with fractional power-law potentials. The coupling function enhances the curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Ali Ashrafzadeh , Kayoomars Karami

The recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs) by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations spurred a variety of questions regarding the origin of the signal and the properties of its sources. The amplitude of a GW background produced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Matias Zaldarriaga

Primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a well-motivated non-particle candidate for dark matter, requiring an enhancement of curvature perturbations on small inflationary scales consistent with observational constraints. In this work we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Despina Totolou , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are supposed to form through the gravitational collapse of regions with large density fluctuations. The formation of PBHs inevitably leads to the emission of scalar-induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Chen Yuan , De-Shuang Meng , Qing-Guo Huang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can catalyze first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) in their vicinity, potentially modifying the gravitational wave (GW) signals from PTs. In this study, we investigate the GWs from strong PTs catalyzed by PBHs.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Jiahang Zhong , Chao Chen , Yi-Fu Cai

The observational data of primordial black holes and scalar-induced gravitational waves can constrain the primordial curvature perturbation at small scales. We parameterize the primordial curvature perturbation by a broken power law form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Zhu Yi , Qin Fei
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