Search for sub-solar primordial black holes in low mass ratio binaries with LIGO-Virgo O2 data and implications for the primordial black hole dark matter fraction

arXiv:2105.11449 · astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-th · Submitted 2021-05-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-th

Submitted: 2021-05-24

Updated: 2026-08-26

Terminology

• Adam — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Early Binaries — 3× in this paper
• Late Binaries — 3× in this paper
• Microlensing — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
• GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of $150 ~ M_{\odot}$
• GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M$_\odot$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M$_\odot$ Compact Object
• GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses
• GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
• GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
• GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
• GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
• GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
• GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run
• Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run
• Advanced LIGO
• Advanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector
• Did LIGO detect dark matter?
• The clustering of massive Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: measuring their mass distribution with Advanced LIGO
• Primordial Black Hole Scenario for the Gravitational-Wave Event GW150914
• Density Perturbations and Black Hole Formation in Hybrid Inflation
• Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter
• New cosmological constraints on primordial black holes
• Constraints on Primordial Black Holes

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