Constraints on Compact Dark Matter Population from Micro-lensing Effect of Gravitational Wave for the third-generation gravitational Wave Detector

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Main Authors: Lin, Xin-Yi, Wang, Xi-Jing, Zhou, Huan, Li, Zhengxiang, Liao, Kai, Zhu, Zong-Hong
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author Lin, Xin-Yi
Wang, Xi-Jing
Zhou, Huan
Li, Zhengxiang
Liao, Kai
Zhu, Zong-Hong
author_facet Lin, Xin-Yi
Wang, Xi-Jing
Zhou, Huan
Li, Zhengxiang
Liao, Kai
Zhu, Zong-Hong
contents Since the pioneering detection of gravitational wave (GW) from a binary black hole merger by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, GW has become a powerful probe for astrophysics and cosmology. If compact dark matter (DM) candidates, e.g. primordial black holes, contribute a substantial fraction of the DM component across a broad mass range, they would yield distinctive micro-lensing signatures on GW signals. In this paper, based on the third-generation ground-based GW detector, i.e. Einstein Telescope, we propose to constrain population information of compact DM by simulating micro-lensing GWs and analyzing with the hierarchical Bayesian inference framework. For a population with a power-law mass function, we demonstrate that detections of several micro-lensing GW signals in $10^4$ binary black holes coalescence events would constrain the abundance of compact DM to $\sim10^{-3}$. It suggests that searching for and identifying micro-lensing signatures in future detections could be complementary and helpful in constraining compact DM scenarios.
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spellingShingle Constraints on Compact Dark Matter Population from Micro-lensing Effect of Gravitational Wave for the third-generation gravitational Wave Detector
Lin, Xin-Yi
Wang, Xi-Jing
Zhou, Huan
Li, Zhengxiang
Liao, Kai
Zhu, Zong-Hong
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Since the pioneering detection of gravitational wave (GW) from a binary black hole merger by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, GW has become a powerful probe for astrophysics and cosmology. If compact dark matter (DM) candidates, e.g. primordial black holes, contribute a substantial fraction of the DM component across a broad mass range, they would yield distinctive micro-lensing signatures on GW signals. In this paper, based on the third-generation ground-based GW detector, i.e. Einstein Telescope, we propose to constrain population information of compact DM by simulating micro-lensing GWs and analyzing with the hierarchical Bayesian inference framework. For a population with a power-law mass function, we demonstrate that detections of several micro-lensing GW signals in $10^4$ binary black holes coalescence events would constrain the abundance of compact DM to $\sim10^{-3}$. It suggests that searching for and identifying micro-lensing signatures in future detections could be complementary and helpful in constraining compact DM scenarios.
title Constraints on Compact Dark Matter Population from Micro-lensing Effect of Gravitational Wave for the third-generation gravitational Wave Detector
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13577