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Ultradense dark matter haloes accompanying primordial black holes

, and . (2022)cite arxiv:2210.04904Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures.

Abstract

Primordial black holes (PBHs) form from large-amplitude initial density fluctuations and may comprise some or all of the dark matter. If PBHs have an extended mass spectrum, or in mixed PBH-particle dark matter scenarios, the extreme density fluctuations necessary to produce PBHs also lead to the formation of a much greater abundance of dark matter minihaloes with internal densities potentially of order $10^12$ M$_ødot$ pc$^-3$. We develop an analytic description of the formation of these ultradense haloes and use it to quantitatively compare PBH and halo distributions. PBHs that contribute only a per cent level fraction of the dark matter are accompanied by ultradense haloes that nevertheless comprise an order-unity fraction. This finding significantly alters the predictions of many PBH scenarios, enabling a variety of new observational tests.

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Ultradense dark matter haloes accompanying primordial black holes

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