Coalescing primordial binary black holes with log-normal mass spectrum
Abstract
Primordial black holes created in the early Universe can constitute a substantial fraction of dark matter and serve as seeds for early galaxy formation. Binary primordial black holes with masses of the order of a few dozen solar masses can explain the observed LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave events. In this Letter, we show that primordial black holes with log-normal mass spectrum centered at M0 15-17 M simultaneously explain both the chirp mass distribution of the detected LIGO/Virgo binary black holes and the differential chirp mass distribution of merging binaries as inferred from the LIGO/Virgo observations. The obtained parameters of log-normal mass spectrum of primordial black holes also give the fraction of seeds with M 104 M required to explain the observed population of supermassive black holes at z=6-7.
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