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Primordial black holes, which could have formed during the early Universe through overdensities in primordial density fluctuations during inflation, are potential candidates for dark matter. We explore the use of lensing parallax of Gamma…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Priyanka Gawade , Surhud More , Varun Bhalerao

The primordial black hole (PBH) comprising full dark matter (DM) abundance is currently allowed if its mass lies between $10^{-16}M_{\odot} \lesssim M \lesssim 10^{-11} M_{\odot}$. This lightest mass range is hard to be probed by ongoing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Sunghoon Jung , TaeHun Kim

Femtolensing of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) has been put forward as an exciting possibility to probe exotic astrophysical objects with masses below $10^{-13}$ solar masses such as small primordial black holes or ultra-compact dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Andrey Katz , Joachim Kopp , Sergey Sibiryakov , Wei Xue

Femtolensing of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is vastly studied to constrain primordial black holes lighter than $10^{-13}$ solar mass and may close the window for PBH dark matter. In this case, wave optics formalism is required and carefully…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Chang-Yu Dai , Po-Yan Tseng

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $10^{-16}-10^{-11}~M_\odot$ may constitute all the dark matter. We show that gravitational microlensing of bright x-ray pulsars provide the most robust and immediately implementable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-03 Manish Tamta , Nirmal Raj , Prateek Sharma

In this work, we search for signatures of gravitational millilensing in Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) in which the source-lens-observer geometry produces two images that manifest in the GRB light curve as superimposed peaks with identical temporal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Zeinab Kalantari , Alaa Ibrahim , Mohammad Reza Rahimi Tabar , Sohrab Rahvar

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB), arising from the incoherent superposition of numerous compact binary coalescences, serves as a powerful probe of both astrophysical populations and fundamental physics. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Mingqi Sun , Kai Liao , Xi-Long Fan

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form in the early stages of the Universe via the collapse of large density perturbations. Depending on the formation mechanism, PBHs may exist and populate today the galactic halos and have masses in a wide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-13 Lindita Hamolli , Mimoza Hafizi , Francesco De Paolis , Achille A. Nucita

Gravitational lensing of short astrophysical transients provides a uniquely direct avenue for searching for primordial black holes (PBHs) across a vast range of masses. While past search efforts have focused on particular source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Stefano Profumo

If the Dark Matter consists of primordial black holes (PBHs), we show that gravitational lensing of stars being monitored by NASA's Kepler search for extra-solar planets can cause significant numbers of detectable microlensing events. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Kim Griest , Matthew J. Lehner , Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Bhuvnesh Jain

As the only dark matter candidate that does not invoke a new particle that survives to the present day, primordial black holes (PBHs) have drawn increasing attention recently. Up to now, various observations have strongly constrained most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Xiao Fang , Gabriel Vasquez , Makana Silva , Christopher M. Hirata

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have been proposed to explain at least a portion of dark matter. Observations have put strong constraints on PBHs in terms of the fraction of dark matter which they can represent, $f_{\rm PBH}$, across a wide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Jie-Shuang Wang , Antonio Herrera-Martín , Yi-Ming Hu

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are an attractive dark matter candidate, particularly if they can explain the totality of it. At PBH masses below $\sim 10^{17}$g and above $\sim 10^{23}$g this possibility is excluded from the variety of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Peter Tinyakov

Overdense regions can collapse into primordial black holes (PBHs) in the early universe, which are a compelling candidate for dark matter. Current constraints leave the asteroid-mass window the only possible one for PBH to account for all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wencong Hong , Shi Pi , Ao Wang , Zhenyu Zhang

A nearby primordial-black-hole (PBH) evaporation burst would produce a curved gamma-ray wavefront, leading to detectable departures from plane-wave inter-satellite delays. We introduce a purely geometric method that combines imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Shuo Xiao , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with a mass from $10^{-16}$ to $10^{-11}\,M_\odot$ may comprise 100% of dark matter. Due to a combination of wave and finite source size effects, the traditional microlensing of stars does not probe this mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 Yang Bai , Nicholas Orlofsky

There is strong evidence for the existence of black holes(BHs) in some X-ray binaries and most galatic nuclei, based on different measuremental approaches, but black holes aren't finally identified for the lack of very firm observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 W. Wang , Y. Zhao

The possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) form a part of dark matter has been considered for a long time but poorly constrained over a wide mass range. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond duration.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Huan Zhou , Zhengxiang Li , Kai Liao , Chenhui Niu , He Gao , Zhiqi Huang , Lu Huang , Bing Zhang

In this proceedings, we study the possible gravitational impact of primordial black holes (PBHs) or dark matter (DM) clumps on GNSS satellite orbits and gravimeter measurements. It provides a preliminary step to the future exhaustive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-25 Bruno Bertrand , Michal Cuadrat-Grzybowski , Pascale Defraigne , Michel Van Camp , Sébastien Clesse
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