Calculation of the Emergent Spectrum and Observation of Primordial Black Holes
- 5 May 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 78 (18) , 3430-3433
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.78.3430
Abstract
We calculate the emergent spectrum of microscopic black holes, taking into account the proposition that a quark and gluon photosphere forms around the black hole. We find that the limit on the average universal density of black holes is not significantly affected by the photosphere; however, we also find that gamma ray satellites such as EGRET and GLAST are well suited to look for nearby black holes out to a distance on the order of 0.3 parsec, and conclude that if black holes are clustered in our Galaxy by a factor of order they may be directly detectable.
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