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Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe, for instance during radiation domination, from the collapse of large-amplitude density perturbations shortly after horizon re-entry. This mechanism establishes an approximate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ashu Kushwaha , Teruaki Suyama

Observational constraints on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) constrain the allowed amplitude of the primordial power spectrum on both the smallest and the largest ranges of scales, covering over 20 decades from $1-10^{20}/…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Philippa S. Cole , Christian T. Byrnes

Using the global 21-cm signal measurement by the EDGES collaboration, we derive constraints on the fraction of the dark matter that is in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses in the range $10^{15}$-$10^{17}\,$g. Improving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Shikhar Mittal , Anupam Ray , Girish Kulkarni , Basudeb Dasgupta

A perturbation on the background inflaton potential can lead inflation into the ultraslow-roll stage and can thus remarkably enhance the power spectrum ${\cal P}_{\cal R}(k)$ of the primordial curvature perturbation on small scales. Such an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Ji-Xiang Zhao , Xiao-Hui Liu , Nan Li

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes which may have formed very early on during the radiation dominated era in the early universe. We present here a method by which the large scale perturbations in the density of primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Sam Young , Christian T. Byrnes

We propose a novel method to probe primordial gravitational waves by means of primordial black holes (PBHs). When the amplitude of primordial tensor perturbations on comoving scales much smaller than those relevant to Cosmic Microwave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-17 Tomohiro Nakama , Teruaki Suyama

The recent observations of the global 21cm signal by EDGES and gravitational waves by LIGO/VIGO have revived interest in PBHs. Different from previous works, we investigate the influence of PBHs on the evolution of the IGM for the mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 Yupeng Yang

We calculate the constraints on the primordial curvature perturbation at the end of inflation from the present day abundance of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), as a function of the reheat temperature T_{\rm RH}. We first extend recent work…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ignacio Zaballa , Anne M. Green , Karim A. Malik , Misao Sasaki

The production of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter (DM) and the generation of scalar induced secondary gravitational waves by using the enhancement mechanism with a peak function in the non-canonical kinetic term in natural inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Zhu Yi

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the candidates to explain the gravitational wave (GW) signals observed by the LIGO detectors. Among several phenomena in the early Universe, cosmic inflation is a major example to generate PBHs from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We constrain the mass abundance of unclustered primordial black holes (PBHs), formed with a simple mass distribution and subject to the Hawking evaporation and particle absorption from the environment. Since the radiative flux is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. S. Custódio , J. E. Horvath

A population of very light primordial black holes which evaporate before nucleosynthesis begins is unconstrained unless the decaying black holes leave stable relics. We show that gravitons Hawking radiated from these black holes would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Richard Anantua , Richard Easther , John T. Giblin

Possible influence of primordial black hole (PBH) evaporations on cosmic microwave background (CMB) is investigated. The spectrum distortions of CMB from the black-body spectrum are described by the chemical potential $\mu$ and the Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Naoshi Sugiyama

In all inflationary scenarios of primordial black holes (PBH) formation, amplified scalar perturbations inevitably accompany an induced stochastic gravitational waves background (ISGWB) at smaller scales. In this paper, we study the ISGWB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

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

As potential candidates of dark matter, primordial black holes (PBHs) are within the core scopes of various astronomical observations. In light of the explosive development of gravitational wave (GW) and radio astronomy, we thoroughly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-23 Yi-Fu Cai , Chao Chen , Xi Tong , Dong-Gang Wang , Sheng-Feng Yan

The Hawking evaporation of ultra-light primordial black holes (PBH) dominating the early Universe before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis can potentially increase the effective number of extra neutrino species $\Delta N_\mathrm{eff}$ through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Theodoros Papanikolaou

We study the consequences of supersymmetry for primordial black hole (PBH) abundance constraints. PBHs with mass less than about 10^{11}g will emit supersymmetric particles when they evaporate. In most models of supersymmetry the lightest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne M. Green

Slow first-order phase transitions generate large inhomogeneities that can lead to the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). We show that the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum then consists of a primary component sourced by bubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Marek Lewicki , Piotr Toczek , Ville Vaskonen

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