Testing scenarios of primordial black holes being the seeds of supermassive black holes by ultracompact minihalos and CMB -distortions
- Phys.Rev.D 90 (2014) 8, 083514
- Published: Oct 14, 2014
- 1405.5999 [astro-ph.CO]
- KEK-TH-1736,
- KEK-COSMO-146,
- RESCEU-9-14
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Supermassive black holes and intermediate mass black holes are believed to exist in the Universe. There is no established astrophysical explanation for their origin, and considerations have been made in the literature that those massive black holes (MBHs) may be primordial black holes (PBHs), black holes which are formed in the early universe (well before the matter-radiation equality) due to the direct collapse of primordial overdensities. This paper aims at discussing the possibility of excluding the PBH scenario as the origin of the MBHs. We first revisit the constraints on PBHs obtained from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) distortion that the seed density perturbation causes. By adopting a recent computation of the CMB distortion sourced by the seed density perturbation and the stronger constraint on the CMB distortion set by the COBE/FIRAS experiment used in the literature, we find that PBHs in the mass range
- 29 pages, 8 figures, Replacement to match published version
- 95.35.+d
- 97.60.Lf
- 98.80.-k
- 98.80.Es
- density: perturbation
- black hole: primordial
- black hole: mass
- dark matter: halo
- cosmic background radiation
- WIMP: annihilation
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