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Interstellar gas heating is a powerful cosmology-independent observable for exploring the parameter space of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe that could constitute part of the dark matter (DM). We provide a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-17 Volodymyr Takhistov , Philip Lu , Graciela B. Gelmini , Kohei Hayashi , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Alexander Kusenko

Black holes formed in the early universe, prior to the formation of stars, can exist as dark matter and also contribute to the black hole merger events observed in gravitational waves. We set a new limit on the abundance of primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-16 Philip Lu , Volodymyr Takhistov , Graciela B. Gelmini , Kohei Hayashi , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Alexander Kusenko

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe constitute a viable dark matter (DM) candidate and can span many orders of magnitude in mass. Light PBHs with masses around $10^{15}$ g contribute to DM and will efficiently evaporate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-15 Ranjan Laha , Philip Lu , Volodymyr Takhistov

The photons emitted by primordial black holes (PBHs) can be a heating factor for interstellar dust. Assuming that dust in the Galaxy has a homogeneous distribution and that PBHs have the same distribution as dark matter (DM), we constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 A. N. Melikhov , E. V. Mikheeva

Cold interstellar gas systems have been used to constrain dark matter (DM) models by the condition that the heating rate from DM must be lower than the astrophysical cooling rate of the gas. Following the methodology of Wadekar and Farrar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-07 Digvijay Wadekar , Zihui Wang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have been explored as potential dark matter candidates, with various astrophysical observations placing upper limits on the fraction $f_\mathrm{PBH}$ of dark matter in the form of PBHs. However, a largely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Nabendu Kumar Khan , Anupam Ray , Girish Kulkarni , Basudeb Dasgupta

The heating of a molecular cloud by photons emitted by a primary black hole (PBH) located inside the cloud is considered. For graphite and silicate dust particles, the dependence of dust temperature on the distance from PBH is derived,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-18 A. N. Melikhov , E. V. Mikheeva

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe constitute an attractive candidate for dark matter. Within the gaseous environment of the interstellar medium, PBHs with accretion disks naturally launch outflows such as winds and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Volodymyr Takhistov , Philip Lu , Kohta Murase , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Graciela B. Gelmini

Primordial black holes are a viable dark matter candidate. They decay via Hawking evaporation. Energetic particles from the Hawking radiation interact with interstellar gas, depositing their energy as heat and ionization. For a sufficiently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Hyungjin Kim

Photons emitted by primordial black holes (PBHs) due to the Hawking effect are among the factors of interstellar dust heating. Based on the data on the temperature of dust, constraints on the fraction of $10^{15}\leq M\leq10^{17}$~g.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 A. N. Melikhov , E. V. Mikheeva

A simple analytical model is used to calculate the X-ray heating of the IGM for a range of black hole masses. This process is efficient enough to decouple the spin temperature of the intergalactic medium from the cosmic microwave background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Saleem Zaroubi , Rajat M. Thomas , Naoshi Sugiyama , Joe Silk

The ground-breaking detections of gravitational waves from black hole mergers by LIGO have rekindled interest in primordial black holes (PBHs) and the possibility of dark matter being composed of PBHs. It has been suggested that PBHs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Qirong Zhu , Eugene Vasiliev , Yuexing Li , Yipeng Jing

We compare the dark matter(DM) production processes and its parameters space in the background of reheating obtained from two chief systems in the early Universe: the inflaton $\phi$ and the primordial black holes (PBHs). We concentrated on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-02 Md Riajul Haque , Essodjolo Kpatcha , Debaprasad Maity , Yann Mambrini

Electrons densities in different locations of our galaxy are obtained in pulsar astronomy by dividing the dispersion measure (DM) by the distance of the pulsar to Earth. The properties of the interstellar plasma are related to its heating.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-05 Y. Ben-Aryeh

Soon after the recent first ever detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes it has been suggested that their origin is primordial. Appealingly, a sufficient number of primordial black holes (PBHs) could also partially or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-09 Jakob Stegmann , Pedro R. Capelo , Elisa Bortolas , Lucio Mayer

A very pressing question in contemporary physics is the identity of Dark Matter (DM). Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are one of the most well-motivated DM candidates. Light PBHs have been constrained by either the non-detection of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Akash Kumar Saha , Abhijeet Singh , Priyank Parashari , Ranjan Laha

Context. Primordial black holes (PBHs) have been proposed as potential candidates for dark matter (DM) and have garnered significant attention in recent years. Aims. Our objective is to delve into the distinct impact of PBHs on gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-21 C. Casanueva-Villarreal , P. B. Tissera , N. Padilla , B. Liu , V. Bromm , S. Pedrosa , L. Bignone , R. Dominguez-Tenreiro

Dark matter (DM) decays and annihilations might heat and partially reionize the Universe at high redshift. Although this effect is not important for the cosmic reionization, the gas heating due to DM particles might affect the structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Mapelli , E. Ripamonti

Recent discoveries of primordial black hole (PBH) candidates by means of high cadence microlensing open the way to a physical understanding of the formation of dark matter as a chapter in the thermal history of the Universe. Two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Jeremy Mould

Currently the asteroid mass window (mass $\sim 10^{17}- 10^{21}$ grams) remains unconstrained for Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) to make up all of the dark matter content of the universe. Given these PBHs have very small masses, their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Emily Koivu , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Christopher M. Hirata
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