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arXiv · 2411.07648

Primordial Black Hole Formation from Type II Fluctuations with Primordial Non-Gaussianity

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This study investigates the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) resulting from the collapse of adiabatic fluctuations with large amplitudes and non-Gaussianity. Ref. \cite{Uehara:2024yyp} showed that fluctuations with large amplitudes lead to the formation of type B PBHs, characterized by the existence of the bifurcating trapping horizons, distinct from the more common type A PBHs without a bifurcating trapping horizon. We focus on the local type non-Gaussianity characterized by the curvature perturbation $\zeta$ given by a function of a Gaussian random variable $\zeta_{\rm G}$ as $\beta\zeta=-\ln(1-\beta \zeta_{\rm G})$ with a parameter $\beta$. Then we examine how the non-Gaussianity influences the dynamics and the type of PBH formed, particularly focusing on type II fluctuations, where the areal radius varies non-monotonically with the coordinate radius. Our findings indicate that, for $\beta>-2$, the threshold for distinguishing between type A and type B PBHs decreases with increasing $\beta$ similarly to the threshold for black hole formation. Additionally, for large positive values of $\beta$, the threshold for type B PBHs approaches that for type II fluctuations. We also find that, for a sufficiently large negative value of $\beta\lesssim-4.0$, the threshold value is in the type II region of $\mu$, i.e., there are fluctuations of type II that do not form black holes. Lastly, we calculate the PBH mass for several values of $\beta$. Then we observe that the final mass monotonically increases with the initial amplitude within the parameter region of type A PBHs, which differs from previous analytical expectations.

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Masaaki Shimada, Albert Escrivá, Daiki Saito, Koichiro Uehara, Chul-Moon Yoo. 2024-11-12. Primordial Black Hole Formation from Type II Fluctuations with Primordial Non-Gaussianity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07648

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