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Publications (6)

gr-qc2025

Detecting dark objects in the Solar System with Gravitational Wave observatories

Valentin Thoss, Abraham Loeb

Dark objects streaming into the solar system can be probed using gravitational wave (GW) experiments through the perturbations that they would induce on the detector test masses. I…

astro-ph.CO2025

New bounds on Memory Burdened Primordial Black Holes from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Arnab Chaudhuri, Kazunori Kohri, Valentin Thoss

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses below are typically assumed to have negligible cosmological impact due to their rapid evaporation via Hawking radiation. Ho…

astro-ph.CO2024

Breakdown of Hawking Evaporation opens new Mass Window for Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidate

Valentin Thoss, Andreas Burkert, Kazunori Kohri

The energy injection through Hawking evaporation has been used to put strong constraints on primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate at masses below . How…

astro-ph.EP2025

Primordial Black Holes in the Solar System

Valentin Thoss, Andreas Burkert

If primordial black holes (PBHs) of asteroidal mass make up the entire dark matter, they could be detectable through their gravitational influence in the solar system. In this work…

astro-ph.EP2026

Inferring the mass and size of 3I/ATLAS from its non-gravitational acceleration

Valentin Thoss, Abraham Loeb, Andreas Burkert

Observations of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have revealed a strong production of gas and dust near perihelion, together with rapid brightening. The outgassing from the nucleus…

astro-ph.CO2026

Non-Cold Dark Matter from Memory-Burdened Primordial Black Holes

Valentin Thoss, Laura Lopez-Honorez, Florian Kühnel +1

Non-cold dark matter particles can arise from the evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs). In this paper, we further investigate how the memory-burden effect, which delays the…