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What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 125, 期 5, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.051103

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  1. University of Oxford
  2. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (Program: Geometry and Physics of Hitchin Systems)
  3. National Science Foundation [PHY-1607611, DMS-1440140]
  4. Simons Foundation
  5. COFUND Fellowship
  6. STFC [ST/P001246/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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We highlight that the anomalous orbits of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and an excess in microlensing events in the 5-year Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment data set can be simultaneously explained by a new population of astrophysical bodies with mass several times that of the Earth (M-circle plus). We take these objects to be primordial black holes (PBHs) and point out the orbits of TNOs would be altered if one of these PBHs was captured by the Solar System, inline with the Planet 9 hypothesis. Capture of a free floating planet is a leading explanation for the origin of Planet 9, and we show that the probability of capturing a PBH instead is comparable. The observational constraints on a PBH in the outer Solar System significantly differ from the case of a new ninth planet. This scenario could be confirmed through annihilation signals from the dark matter microhalo around the PBH.

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