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NANOGrav signal as mergers of Stupendously Large Primordial Black Holes

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arxiv 2012.14721 v1 pith:RTKH5W4I submitted 2020-12-29 astro-ph.CO gr-qc

NANOGrav signal as mergers of Stupendously Large Primordial Black Holes

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We give an explanation for the signal detected by NANOGrav as the stochastic gravitational wave background from binary mergers of primordial "Stupendously Large Black Holes" (SLABs) of mass $M\sim(10^{11}-10^{12})M_{\odot}$, and corresponding to roughly $0.1\%$ of the dark matter. We show that the stringent bounds coming from $\mu$ distortions of the CMB can be surpassed if the perturbations resulting in these BHs arise from the non-Gaussian distribution of fluctuations expected in single field models of inflation generating a spike in the power spectrum. While the tail of the stochastic background coming from binaries with $M\lesssim 10^{11}M_{\odot}$ could both fit NANOGrav and respect $\mu$ distortions limits, they become excluded from large scale structure constraints.

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