Published May 10, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Prospects of detection of subsolar mass primordial black hole and white dwarf binary mergers

  • 1. Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
  • 2. Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Furo-cho Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
  • 3. Kobayashi Maskawa Institute, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
  • 4. Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan

Description

The subsolar mass primordial black hole (PBH) attracts attention as robust evidence of its primordial origin against the astrophysical black hole. Not only with themselves, PBHs can also form binaries with ordinary astrophysical objects, catching them by gravitational wave (GW) bremsstrahlung. We discuss the detectability of the inspiral GWs from binaries consisting of a PBH and a white dwarf (WD) by using space-borne gravitational wave interferometers like DECIGO. The conservative assessment shows the expected event number in three years by DECIGO is O(106) for MPBH0.1M. Possible enhancement mechanisms of WD-PBH binary formation may amplify this event rate. We discuss how large enhancement associated with WDs is required to detect WD-PBH merger events without violating the existing constraints on the PBH-PBH merger by the ground-based detector.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.103514;
arXiv
arXiv:2401.00044;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100001691; 10.13039/501100002241;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
12 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

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Copyright
© 2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
JP21K13918; JP20H01899; JP23H04502; JP23K13099; JP20K03968; JPMJSP2125
Notes
Contact Email: yamamoto.takahiro.u6@f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp; Contact Email: inui.ryoto.a3@s.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp; Contact Email: tada.yuichiro.y8@f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp; Contact Email: shu@kmi.nagoya-u.ac.jp; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Japan Science and Technology Agency