Articolo ArXiv: "E se il Pianeta 9 fosse un mini buco nero?"
Inviato: 16/10/2019, 02:49
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
Jakub Scholtz, James Unwin (Submitted on 24 Sep 2019)
We highlight that the anomalous orbits of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) and an excess in microlensing events in the 5-year OGLE dataset can be simultaneously explained by a new population of astrophysical bodies with mass several times that of Earth (M⊕). We take these objects to be primordial black holes (PBHs) and point out the orbits of TNOs would be altered if one of these PBHs was captured by the Solar System, inline with the Planet 9 hypothesis. Capture of a free floating planet is a leading explanation for the origin of Planet 9 and we show that the probability of capturing a PBH instead is comparable. The observational constraints on a PBH in the outer Solar System significantly differ from the case of a new ninth planet. This scenario could be confirmed through annihilation signals from the dark matter microhalo around the PBH.
Comments: 7 pages, 1 exact scale illustration of a 5 Earth mass black hole
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Report number: IPPP/19/73
Cite as: arXiv:1909.11090 [hep-ph]
(or arXiv:1909.11090v1 [hep-ph] for this version)
Submission history
From: James Unwin [view email] [v1] Tue, 24 Sep 2019 18:00:01 UTC (19 KB)
What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
Jakub Scholtz, James Unwin (Submitted on 24 Sep 2019)
We highlight that the anomalous orbits of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) and an excess in microlensing events in the 5-year OGLE dataset can be simultaneously explained by a new population of astrophysical bodies with mass several times that of Earth (M⊕). We take these objects to be primordial black holes (PBHs) and point out the orbits of TNOs would be altered if one of these PBHs was captured by the Solar System, inline with the Planet 9 hypothesis. Capture of a free floating planet is a leading explanation for the origin of Planet 9 and we show that the probability of capturing a PBH instead is comparable. The observational constraints on a PBH in the outer Solar System significantly differ from the case of a new ninth planet. This scenario could be confirmed through annihilation signals from the dark matter microhalo around the PBH.
Comments: 7 pages, 1 exact scale illustration of a 5 Earth mass black hole
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Report number: IPPP/19/73
Cite as: arXiv:1909.11090 [hep-ph]
(or arXiv:1909.11090v1 [hep-ph] for this version)
Submission history
From: James Unwin [view email] [v1] Tue, 24 Sep 2019 18:00:01 UTC (19 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090
Constraints on Earth-mass primordial black holes from OGLE 5-year microlensing events.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/C ... badac63543
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/C ... badac63543
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.07120.pdf

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