Speaker
Michael Hawkins
(University of Edinburgh)
Description
In the last few years the case that primordial black holes make up a significant fraction of the dark matter has received steadily increasing support from a wide variety of observations. If indeed this is the case then there are a number of observational consequences to be expected. In this talk I shall describe situations where such a population of compact bodies should betray their presence with observational signatures. The detection of these signatures is an important consistency check for the idea that primordial black holes are a component of dark matter, and the bulk of my talk will be devoted to presenting observations consistent with the expected signatures.
Author
Michael Hawkins
(University of Edinburgh)
