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Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from Local Primordial Black Holes with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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2018-04-10

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Article

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15384357
0004637X

DOI

10.3847/1538-4357/aaac7b

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2-s2.0-85045575187

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Mahidol University

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Bibliographic Citation

Astrophysical Journal. Vol.857, No.1 (2018)

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M. Ackermann, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, C. C. Cheung, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, D. Costantin, F. D'Ammando, F. De Palma, S. W. Digel, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, W. B. Focke, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, L. Guillemot, S. Guiriec, D. Horan, G. Jóhannesson, C. Johnson, S. Kensei, D. Kocevski, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, J. D. Magill, S. Maldera, D. Malyshev, A. Manfreda, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, M. Meyer, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, R. Ojha, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Palatiello, V. S. Paliya, D. Paneque, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, F. Piron, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, S. Ritz, M. Sánchez-Conde, C. Sgrò Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from Local Primordial Black Holes with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Astrophysical Journal. Vol.857, No.1 (2018). doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaac7b Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/45743

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Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from Local Primordial Black Holes with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author(s)

M. Ackermann
 W. B. Atwood
 L. Baldini
 J. Ballet
 G. Barbiellini
 D. Bastieri
 R. Bellazzini
 B. Berenji
 E. Bissaldi
 R. D. Blandford
 E. D. Bloom
 R. Bonino
 E. Bottacini
 J. Bregeon
 P. Bruel
 R. Buehler
 R. A. Cameron
 R. Caputo
 P. A. Caraveo
 E. Cavazzuti
 E. Charles
 A. Chekhtman
 C. C. Cheung
 G. Chiaro
 S. Ciprini
 J. Cohen-Tanugi
 J. Conrad
 D. Costantin
 F. D'Ammando
 F. De Palma
 S. W. Digel
 N. Di Lalla
 M. Di Mauro
 L. Di Venere
 C. Favuzzi
 S. J. Fegan
 W. B. Focke
 A. Franckowiak
 Y. Fukazawa
 S. Funk
 P. Fusco
 F. Gargano
 D. Gasparrini
 N. Giglietto
 F. Giordano
 M. Giroletti
 D. Green
 I. A. Grenier
 L. Guillemot
 S. Guiriec
 D. Horan
 G. Jóhannesson
 C. Johnson
 S. Kensei
 D. Kocevski
 M. Kuss
 S. Larsson
 L. Latronico
 J. Li
 F. Longo
 F. Loparco
 M. N. Lovellette
 P. Lubrano
 J. D. Magill
 S. Maldera
 D. Malyshev
 A. Manfreda
 M. N. Mazziotta
 J. E. McEnery
 M. Meyer
 P. F. Michelson
 W. Mitthumsiri
 T. Mizuno
 M. E. Monzani
 E. Moretti
 A. Morselli
 I. V. Moskalenko
 M. Negro
 E. Nuss
 R. Ojha
 N. Omodei
 M. Orienti
 E. Orlando
 J. F. Ormes
 M. Palatiello
 V. S. Paliya
 D. Paneque
 M. Persic
 M. Pesce-Rollins
 F. Piron
 G. Principe
 S. Rainò
 R. Rando
 M. Razzano
 S. Razzaque
 A. Reimer
 O. Reimer
 S. Ritz
 M. Sánchez-Conde
 C. Sgrò

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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia
 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino
 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
 Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
 Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
 Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
 Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
 Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
 INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna
 INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Milan
 University Science Institute Reykjavik
 Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
 Hiroshima University
 California State University, Los Angeles
 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
 Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
 Universite d'Orleans
 Università di Pisa
 Stockholms universitet
 Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
 Naval Research Laboratory
 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
 Clemson University
 Nordisk Institut for Teoretisk Atomtysik
 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
 Università degli Studi di Bari
 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN
 University of Maryland
 Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
 Università degli Studi di Trieste
 George Mason University, Fairfax Campus
 Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
 University of Denver
 Mahidol University
 Università degli Studi di Torino
 Max Planck Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)
 Medizinische Universitat Innsbruck
 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
 Universite Paris 7- Denis Diderot
 George Washington University
 The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
 University of Johannesburg
 Università degli Studi di Padova
 Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics

Abstract

© 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Black holes with masses below approximately 1015 g are expected to emit gamma-rays with energies above a few tens of MeV, which can be detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Although black holes with these masses cannot be formed as a result of stellar evolution, they may have formed in the early universe and are therefore called primordial black holes (PBHs). Previous searches for PBHs have focused on either short-timescale bursts or the contribution of PBHs to the isotropic gamma-ray emission. We show that, in cases of individual PBHs, the Fermi-LAT is most sensitive to PBHs with temperatures above approximately 16 GeV and masses 6 ×1011 g, which it can detect out to a distance of about 0.03 pc. These PBHs have a remaining lifetime of months to years at the start of the Fermi mission. They would appear as potentially moving point sources with gamma-ray emission that become spectrally harder and brighter with time until the PBH completely evaporates. In this paper, we develop a new algorithm to detect the proper motion of gamma-ray point sources, and apply it to 318 unassociated point sources at a high galactic latitude in the third Fermi-LAT source catalog. None of the unassociated point sources with spectra consistent with PBH evaporation show significant proper motion. Using the nondetection of PBH candidates, we derive a 99% confidence limit on the PBH evaporation rate in the vicinity of Earth, PPBH < 7.2 × 103 pc-3 yr-1. This limit is similar to the limits obtained with ground-based gamma-ray observatories.

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Earth and Planetary Sciences
 Physics and Astronomy

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