Multi-messenger probes of asteroid mass primordial black holes: Superradiance spectroscopy, Hawking radiation, and microlensing
James B. Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Tao Xu
Abstract
Superradiance provides a unique opportunity for investigating dark sectors as well as primordial black holes , which themselves are candidates for dark matter over a wide mass range. Using axion-like particles as an example, we show that line signals emerging from a superradiated axion cloud combined with black hole Hawking radiation in extragalactic and galactic halos , along with microlensing observations lead to complementary constraints on parameter space combinations including the axion-photon coupling, axion mass, black hole mass, and its dark matter fraction, f PBH . For the asteroid mass range ∼ 10 16 − 10 22 g , where primordial black holes can provide the totality of dark matter, we demonstrate that ongoing and upcoming observations such as SXI, JWST, and AMEGO-X will be sensitive to possible line and continuum signals, respectively, providing probes of previously inaccessible regions of f PBH parameter space. Further complementarity from a stochastic gravitational-wave background emerging from the black hole formation mechanism is also considered.