No massive black holes in the Milky Way halo
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| author | Mroz, P. Udalski, A. Szymanski, M. K. Soszynski, I. Wyrzykowski, L. Pietrukowicz, P. Kozlowski, S. Poleski, R. Skowron, J. Skowron, D. Ulaczyk, K. Gromadzki, M. Rybicki, K. Iwanek, P. Wrona, M. Ratajczak, M. |
| author_facet | Mroz, P. Udalski, A. Szymanski, M. K. Soszynski, I. Wyrzykowski, L. Pietrukowicz, P. Kozlowski, S. Poleski, R. Skowron, J. Skowron, D. Ulaczyk, K. Gromadzki, M. Rybicki, K. Iwanek, P. Wrona, M. Ratajczak, M. |
| contents | The gravitational wave detectors have unveiled a population of massive black holes that do not resemble those observed in the Milky Way and whose origin is debated. According to one possible explanation, these black holes may have formed from density fluctuations in the early Universe (primordial black holes), and they should comprise from several to 100% of dark matter to explain the observed black hole merger rates. If such black holes existed in the Milky Way dark matter halo, they would cause long-timescale gravitational microlensing events lasting years. The previous experiments were not sufficiently sensitive to such events. Here we present the results of the search for long-timescale microlensing events among the light curves of nearly 80 million stars located in the Large Magellanic Cloud that were monitored for 20 years by the OGLE survey. We did not find any events with timescales longer than one year, whereas all shorter events detected may be explained by known stellar populations. We find that compact objects in the mass range from $1.8 \times 10^{-4}$ to $6.3\,M_{\odot}$ cannot compose more than 1% of dark matter, and those in the mass range from $1.3 \times 10^{-5}$ to $860\,M_{\odot}$ cannot make up more than 10% of dark matter. Thus, primordial black holes in this mass range cannot simultaneously explain a significant fraction of dark matter and gravitational wave events. |
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| spellingShingle | No massive black holes in the Milky Way halo Mroz, P. Udalski, A. Szymanski, M. K. Soszynski, I. Wyrzykowski, L. Pietrukowicz, P. Kozlowski, S. Poleski, R. Skowron, J. Skowron, D. Ulaczyk, K. Gromadzki, M. Rybicki, K. Iwanek, P. Wrona, M. Ratajczak, M. Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology The gravitational wave detectors have unveiled a population of massive black holes that do not resemble those observed in the Milky Way and whose origin is debated. According to one possible explanation, these black holes may have formed from density fluctuations in the early Universe (primordial black holes), and they should comprise from several to 100% of dark matter to explain the observed black hole merger rates. If such black holes existed in the Milky Way dark matter halo, they would cause long-timescale gravitational microlensing events lasting years. The previous experiments were not sufficiently sensitive to such events. Here we present the results of the search for long-timescale microlensing events among the light curves of nearly 80 million stars located in the Large Magellanic Cloud that were monitored for 20 years by the OGLE survey. We did not find any events with timescales longer than one year, whereas all shorter events detected may be explained by known stellar populations. We find that compact objects in the mass range from $1.8 \times 10^{-4}$ to $6.3\,M_{\odot}$ cannot compose more than 1% of dark matter, and those in the mass range from $1.3 \times 10^{-5}$ to $860\,M_{\odot}$ cannot make up more than 10% of dark matter. Thus, primordial black holes in this mass range cannot simultaneously explain a significant fraction of dark matter and gravitational wave events. |
| title | No massive black holes in the Milky Way halo |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02386 |