Pulsar timing can constrain primordial black holes in the LIGO mass window
Abstract
The recent discovery of gravitational waves from merging black holes has generated interest in primordial black holes as a possible component of dark matter. In this paper, this study shows that pulsar timing may soon have sufficient data to constrain $1–1000 M⊙$ primordial black holes (PBHs) via the nondetection of a third-order Shapiro time delay as the black holes move around the Galactic halo. We present the results of a Monte Carlo simulation which suggests that future data from known pulsars may be capable of constraining the PBH density more stringently than other existing methods in the mass range $~1–30 M⊙$. We find that timing new pulsars discovered using the proposed Square Kilometre Array may constrain primordial black holes in this mass range to comprise less than ~1% - 10% of the dark matter.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Theoretical Physics Group; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy and Radio Astronomy Lab.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1544410
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1339014
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 95; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
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Schutz, Katelin, and Liu, Adrian. Pulsar timing can constrain primordial black holes in the LIGO mass window. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.023002.
Schutz, Katelin, & Liu, Adrian. Pulsar timing can constrain primordial black holes in the LIGO mass window. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.023002
Schutz, Katelin, and Liu, Adrian. Wed .
"Pulsar timing can constrain primordial black holes in the LIGO mass window". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.023002. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1544410.
@article{osti_1544410,
title = {Pulsar timing can constrain primordial black holes in the LIGO mass window},
author = {Schutz, Katelin and Liu, Adrian},
abstractNote = {The recent discovery of gravitational waves from merging black holes has generated interest in primordial black holes as a possible component of dark matter. In this paper, this study shows that pulsar timing may soon have sufficient data to constrain $1–1000 M⊙$ primordial black holes (PBHs) via the nondetection of a third-order Shapiro time delay as the black holes move around the Galactic halo. We present the results of a Monte Carlo simulation which suggests that future data from known pulsars may be capable of constraining the PBH density more stringently than other existing methods in the mass range $~1–30 M⊙$. We find that timing new pulsars discovered using the proposed Square Kilometre Array may constrain primordial black holes in this mass range to comprise less than ~1% - 10% of the dark matter.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.95.023002},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 2,
volume = 95,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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FIG. 1: Schematic observational setup for a single pulsar. The top diagram shows the geometry from a side view, while the bottom shows a cross section from the point of view of the observer.
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