Search for sub-solar primordial black holes in low mass ratio binaries with LIGO-Virgo O2 data and implications for the primordial black hole dark matter fraction

Khun Sang Phukon, Gregory Baltus, Sarah Caudill +7

We perform a search for binary black hole mergers with one sub-solar mass (SSM) black hole and a primary component above $\sim 2M_{\odot }$ in data from the second observing run (O2)…