2023
Ref: SCART-2024-0126

Observing dark matter clumps and asteroid-mass primordial black holes in the solar system with gravimeters and GNSS networks

Bertrand, Bruno ; Cuadrat-Grzybowski, Miguel ; Defraigne, Pascale ; Van Camp, Michel ; Clesse, Sebastien


published in Proceedings of the 2023 Gravitation session of the 57th Rencontres de Moriond (2023)

Abstract: In this proceedings, we study the possible gravitational impact of primordial black holes (PBHs) or dark matter (DM) clumps on GNSS satellite orbits and gravimeter measurements. It provides a preliminary step to the future exhaustive statistical analysis over 28 years of gravimeter and GNSS data to get constraints over the density of asteroid-mass PBH and DM clumps inside the solar system. Such constraints would be the first to be obtained by direct observation on a terrestrial scale.

DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.14520
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