Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: Almost All or Almost Nothing
Abstract
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are expected to accrete particle dark matter around them to form ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs), if the PBHs themselves do not make up most of the dark matter. We show that if most dark matter is a thermal relic, then the inner regions of UCMHs around PBHs are highly luminous sources of annihilation products. Flux constraints on gamma rays and neutrinos set strong abundance limits, improving previous limits by orders of magnitude. Assuming enough particle dark matter exists to form UCMHs, we find that ΩPBH <~ 10-4 (for m DM c 2 ≈ 100 GeV) for a vast range in PBH mass. We briefly discuss the uncertainties on our limits, including those due to the evolution of the UCMH luminosity as it annihilates.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- September 2010
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1003.3466
- Bibcode:
- 2010ApJ...720L..67L
- Keywords:
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- dark matter;
- diffuse radiation;
- early universe;
- gamma rays: diffuse background;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- emulateapj format, accepted by ApJL
