Gamma-ray burst lensing parallax: Closing the primordial black hole dark matter mass window

2019/08/31 by Sunghoon Jung, TaeHun Kim · 34 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black hole (networking) #Brightness #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Gravitational lens #Primordial black hole #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Strong gravitational lensing #Window (computing) #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013113

published in Physical Review Research 2(1) (American Physical Society) · 8 pages, 4 figures

openalex created_date 2019/08/13 · openalex publication_date 2020/02/03 · arxiv created 2020/02/04 · arxiv updated 2020/02/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

This paper proposes a new gravitational lensing method that can probe the lightest possible primordial black hole dark matter. The scheme relies on measuring brightness differences in a gamma-ray burst as identified by spatially separated detectors.

Citations

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