Searching for Black Holes in the Outer Solar System with LSST

Siraj, Amir and Loeb, Abraham (2020) Searching for Black Holes in the Outer Solar System with LSST. The Astrophysical Journal, 898 (1). L4. ISSN 2041-8213

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Abstract

Planet Nine has been proposed to potentially be a black hole (BH) in the outer solar system. We investigate the accretion flares that would result from impacts of small Oort Cloud objects, and find that the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) observing program will be able to either rule out or confirm Planet Nine as a BH within a year. We also find that LSST could rule out or confirm the existence of trapped planet-mass BHs out to the edge of the Oort Cloud, indirectly probing the dark matter fraction in subsolar mass BHs and potentially improving upon current limits by orders of magnitude.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Afro Asian Archive > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email support@afroasianarchive.com
Date Deposited: 22 May 2023 06:11
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2024 04:24
URI: http://info.stmdigitallibrary.com/id/eprint/818

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