Globular Cluster Seeding by Primordial Black Hole Population [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07621


Primordial black holes (PBHs) that form in the early Universe in the modified Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism of baryogenesis should have intrinsic log-normal mass distribution of PBHs. We show that the parameters of this distribution adjusted to provide the required spatial density of massive seeds ($\ge 10^4 M_\odot$) for early galaxy formation and not violating the dark matter density constraints predict the existence of the population of intermediate-mass PBHs with a number density of $\sim 1000$~Mpc$^{-3}$. We argue that the population of intermediate-mass AD PBHs can also seed the formation of globular clusters in galaxies.

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A. Dolgov and K. Postnov
Mon, 27 Feb 17
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Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, to be submitted