Jun 19 – 21, 2023
Naples, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Gravitational wave signatures from magnetised supermassive primordial black holes

Jun 21, 2023, 3:20 PM
20m
Naples, Italy

Naples, Italy

Talk Session 11

Speaker

Dr Theodoros Papanikolaou (National Observatory of Athens)

Description

Primordial black holes (PBH) can account for a wide variety of cosmic conundra, among which the origin of primordial magnetic fields. In this talk, we consider supermassive PBHs furnished with a disk due to the vortexlike motion of the primordial plasma around them at the epoch of their formation, proposing at the end a novel natural ab initio mechanism for the generation of a battery induced seed magnetic field (MF) which can be later amplified by various dynamo/instability processes and provide the seed for the present day MF on intergalactic scales. Then, we derive the gravitational-wave (GW) signal induced by the magnetic anisotropic stress of such a population of magnetised PBHs, checking its detectability by future GW detectors. Finally, by avoiding GW overproduction we set upper bound constraints on the abundances of supermassive PBHs $\Omega_\mathrm{PBH}$ as a function of their mass, which are comparable with constraints on $\Omega_\mathrm{PBH}$ from large-scale structure probes; hence promoting the portal of GWs incuded by magnetised PBHs as a new probe to explore the enigmatic nature of supermassive PBHs.

Primary author

Dr Theodoros Papanikolaou (National Observatory of Athens)

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