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Electromagnetic probes of primordial black holes as dark matter
Y. Ali-Haimoud, S. Clesse, J. Garcia-Bellido +91
The LIGO discoveries have rekindled suggestions that primordial black holes (BHs) may constitute part to all of the dark matter (DM) in the Universe. Such suggestions came from 1)…
Bounds on Ultra-Light Hidden-Photon Dark Matter from 21cm at Cosmic Dawn
Ely D. Kovetz, Ilias Cholis, David E. Kaplan
Ultra-light hidden-photon dark matter produces an oscillating electric field in the early Universe plasma, which in turn induces an electric current in its ionized component whose…
The Black Hole Mass Function from Gravitational Wave Measurements
Ely D. Kovetz, Ilias Cholis, Patrick C. Breysse +1
We examine how future gravitational-wave measurements from merging black holes (BHs) can be used to infer the shape of the black-hole mass function, with important implications for…
Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background due to Primordial Binary Black Hole Mergers
Vuk Mandic, Simeon Bird, Ilias Cholis
Recent Advanced LIGO detections of binary black hole mergers have prompted multiple studies investigating the possibility that the heavy GW150914 binary system was of primordial or…
Determining the progenitors of merging black-hole binaries
Alvise Raccanelli, Ely D. Kovetz, Simeon Bird +2
We investigate a possible method for determining the progenitors of black hole (BH) mergers observed via their gravitational wave (GW) signal. We argue that measurements of the cro…
Did LIGO detect dark matter?
Simeon Bird, Ilias Cholis, Julian B. Muñoz +5
We consider the possibility that the black-hole (BH) binary detected by LIGO may be a signature of dark matter. Interestingly enough, there remains a window for masses $20\,M_\odot…