LIGO Signals from the Mirror World
arXiv:1902.05425 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1295
Abstract
We want to explain non-observation of electromagnetic counterpart of currently confirmed ten gravitational wave signals from the black hole mergers assuming their existence in the hidden mirror universe. Mirror matter, which interacts with our world only through gravity, is a candidate of dark matter and its density can exceed ordinary matter density five times. Since mirror world is considered to be colder, star formation there started earlier and mirror black holes had more time to pick up the mass and to create more binary systems within the LIGO reachable zone. Totally we estimate a factor 10 amplification of black holes merging rate in mirror world with respect to our world, which is consistent with the LIGO observations.
arXiv commentMNRAS version of the paper
References in corpus (20)
- Cosmic Star Formation History
- GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
- An Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A
- Limits on the Macho Content of the Galactic Halo from the EROS-2 Survey of the Magellanic Clouds
- Primordial Black Holes - Perspectives in Gravitational Wave Astronomy -
- Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-Hole Merger GW150914
- Merging binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in short-period stellar binaries
- Effect of Primordial Black Holes on the Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmological Parameter Estimates
- MACHO Project Limits on Black Hole Dark Matter in the 1-30 Solar Mass Range
- The progenitors of compact-object binaries: impact of metallicity, common envelope and natal kicks
- MOCCA-SURVEY Database I: Coalescing Binary Black Holes Originating From Globular Clusters
- Asymmetric Inflationary Reheating and the Nature of Mirror Universe
- The Early Mirror Universe: Inflation, Baryogenesis, Nucleosynthesis and Dark Matter
- Mirror World and its Cosmological Consequences
- The End of the MACHO Era: Limits on Halo Dark Matter from Stellar Halo Wide Binaries
- Leptogenesis via Collisions: Leaking Lepton Number to the Hidden Sector
- Evolutionary and structural properties of mirror star MACHOs
- Counting Black Holes: The Cosmic Stellar Remnant Population and Implications for LIGO
- A Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-Wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run
- Through the Looking-Glass: Alice's Adventures in Mirror World