[HTML][HTML] Observational evidence for primordial black holes: A positivist perspective

BJ Carr, S Clesse, J Garcia-Bellido, MRS Hawkins… - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
We review numerous arguments for primordial black holes (PBHs) based on observational
evidence from a variety of lensing, dynamical, accretion and gravitational-wave effects. This …

Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA

E Barausse, E Berti, T Hertog, SA Hughes… - General Relativity and …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further
delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental …

Primordial black holes—perspectives in gravitational wave astronomy

M Sasaki, T Suyama, T Tanaka… - Classical and Quantum …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews current understanding of primordial black holes (PBHs), with particular
focus on those massive examples ($\gtrsim $$10^{15}~{\rm g} $) which remain at the …

Improved upper limits on the 21 cm signal power spectrum of neutral hydrogen at z ≈ 9.1 from LOFAR

FG Mertens, M Mevius, LVE Koopmans… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A new upper limit on the 21 cm signal power spectrum at a redshift of z≈ 9.1 is
presented, based on 141 h of data obtained with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). The …

Semianalytic calculation of gravitational wave spectrum nonlinearly induced from primordial curvature perturbations

K Kohri, T Terada - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Whether or not the primordial gravitational wave (GW) produced during inflation is
sufficiently strong to be observable, GWs are necessarily produced from the primordial …

Formation and evolution of primordial black hole binaries in the early universe

M Raidal, C Spethmann, V Vaskonen… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range 0.1–10 3 M⊙ can
potentially be tested by gravitational wave observations due to the large merger rate of PBH …

Merger rate of primordial black-hole binaries

Y Ali-Haïmoud, ED Kovetz, M Kamionkowski - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Primordial black holes (PBHs) have long been a candidate for the elusive dark matter (DM),
and remain poorly constrained in the∼ 20–100 M⊙ mass range. PBH binaries were …

constraints on primordial black holes and particle dark matter

R Laha, JB Muñoz, TR Slatyer - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite has yielded
unprecedented measurements of the soft gamma-ray spectrum of our Galaxy. Here we use …

Gravitational waves from primordial black hole mergers

M Raidal, V Vaskonen, H Veermäe - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the production of primordial black hole (PBH) binaries and the resulting merger
rate, accounting for an extended PBH mass function and the possibility of a clustered spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on primordial curvature spectrum from primordial black holes and scalar-induced gravitational waves

Z Yi, Q Fei - The European Physical Journal C, 2023 - Springer
The observational data of primordial black holes and scalar-induced gravitational waves can
constrain the primordial curvature perturbation at small scales. We parameterize the …