Solving puzzles of GW150914 by primordial black holes
- ITEP, Bol. Cheremushkinsaya ul., 25, 117218 Moscow (Russian Federation)
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090 (Russian Federation)
- Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn (Germany)
The black hole binary properties inferred from the LIGO gravitational wave signal GW150914 posed several serious problems. The high masses and low effective spin of black hole binary can be explained if they are primordial (PBH) rather than the products of the stellar binary evolution. Such PBH properties are postulated ad hoc but not derived from fundamental theory. We show that the necessary features of PBHs naturally follow from the slightly modified Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism of baryogenesis. The log-normal distribution of PBHs, predicted within the AD paradigm, is adjusted to provide an abundant population of low-spin stellar mass black holes. The same distribution gives a sufficient number of quickly growing seeds of supermassive black holes observed at high redshifts and may comprise an appreciable fraction of Dark Matter which does not contradict any existing observational limits. Testable predictions of this scenario are discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 22679400
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 11; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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