Constraining the primordial black hole abundance with 21cm cosmology

Abstract

The discoveries of a number of binary black hole mergers by LIGO and VIRGO has reinvigorated the interest that primordial black holes (PBHs) of tens of solar masses could contribute non-negligibly to the dark matter energy density. Should even a small population of PBHs with masses $\gtrsim \mathcal{O}(M_{\odot })$ exist, they could profoundly impact the properties of the intergalactic medium and provide insight into novel processes at work in the early Universe. We demonstrate here that observations of the 21cm transition in neutral hydrogen during the epochs of reionization and cosmic dawn will likely provide one of the most stringent tests of solar mass PBHs. In the context of 21cm cosmology, PBHs give rise to three distinct observable effects: $\text{(i)}$ the modification to the primordial power spectrum (and thus also the halo mass function) induced by Poisson noise, $\text{(ii)}$ a uniform heating and ionization of the intergalactic medium via X-rays produced during accretion, and $\text{(iii)}$ a local modification to the temperature and density of the ambient medium surrounding isolated PBHs. Using a four-parameter astrophysical model, we show that experiments like SKA and HERA could potentially improve upon existing constraints derived using observations of the cosmic microwave background by more than one order of magnitude.

v2: Published version. Added new figure, modified text. No significant changes. v1: 28 pages, 12 figures

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