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arxiv: 0901.0542 · v3 · submitted 2009-01-05 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · gr-qc· hep-ph· hep-th

Spectral Lags of Gamma-Ray Bursts from Primordial Black Hole (PBH) Evaporations

T. N. Ukwatta , J. H. MacGibbon , W. C. Parke , K. S. Dhuga , A. Eskandarian , N. Gehrels , L. Maximon , D. C. Morris This is my paper
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keywords energygamma-raypbhsblackburstshighphotonprimordial
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Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), which may have been created in the early Universe, are predicted to be detectable by their Hawking radiation. PBHs with an initial mass of 5.0 * 10^14 g should be expiring today with a burst of high energy particles. Evaporating PBHs in the solar neighborhood are candidate Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) progenitors. We propose spectral lag, which is the temporal delay between the high energy photon pulse and the low energy photon pulse, as a possible method to detect PBH evaporation events with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observatory.

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