Dark Classification Matters: Searching for Primordial Black Holes with LSST
arXiv:2506.20709 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2025/10/066
Abstract
We present projected constraints on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) as a constituent of dark matter, based on microlensing observations from the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. We use a catalogue of microlensing light curves simulated with Rubin Observatory's OpSims to demonstrate that competitive constraints crucially rely on minimising the false positive rate (FPR) of the classification algorithm. We propose the Bayesian information criterion and a Boosted Decision Tree as effective discriminators and compare their derived efficiency and FPR to a more standard -test.
10 pages, 7 figures. Version published in JCAP
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