Searching for Primordial Black Holes in the Radio and X-Ray Sky
Abstract
We model the accretion of gas onto a population of massive primordial black holes in the Milky Way and compare the predicted radio and x-ray emission with observational data. We show that, under conservative assumptions on the accretion process, the possibility that O (10 )M⊙ primordial black holes can account for all of the dark matter in the Milky Way is excluded at 5 σ by a comparison with a Very Large Array radio catalog at 1.4 GHz and at ≃40 σ by a comparison with a Chandra x-ray catalog (0.5-8 keV). We argue that this method can be used to identify such a population of primordial black holes with more sensitive future radio and x-ray surveys.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- June 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.241101
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1612.00457
- Bibcode:
- 2017PhRvL.118x1101G
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 2 figures