PREGALACTIC BLACK-HOLES - NEW CONSTRAINT

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作者
BARROW, JD [1 ]
SILK, J [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,DEPT ASTRON,BERKELEY,CA 94720
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10.1007/BF00757214
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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Pregalactic black holes accrete matter in the early universe and produce copious amounts of x radiation. By using observations of the background radiation in the x and γ wavebands we have been able to impose a strong new constraint upon their possible abundance. If pregalactic black holes are actually present, several outstanding problems of cosmogony can be resolved with typical pregalactic black hole masses of 100M⊙. Significantly more massive holes cannot constitute an appreciable mass fraction of the universe and are limited by ΩPGBH(M)<10(M⊙JM)Ω-1. © 1979 Plenum Publishing Corporation.
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