Blog #16

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

What is the most effective way to identify a primordial black hole?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The most effective way to identify a primordial black hole is to use gamma ray telescopes and creating histograms of radiation and comparing them to preexisting models from primordial black hole radiation. 

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The most effective way to identify a primordial black holes is to use radio telescopes to identify sources.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1. When PBHs evaporate, they give off radiation which could be detected by gamma ray telescopes on earth.
2. When PBHs evaporate, they would also give off some acoustic sound which could be detected by radio telescopes.
3. You would never be able to see a PBH evaporate, therefore we must resort to listening and detecting their radiation. 

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

PATTERSON, ELLINGSON, MARTIN, DESHPANDE, SIMONETTI, KAVIC, and CUTCHIN. "Searching for Transient Pulses with the ETA Radio Telescope." ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems 20th ser. 1.4 (2009).

6.  What other source supports your answer?

Halzen, F., E. Zas, J. H. Macgibbon, and T. C. Weekes. "Gamma Rays and Energetic Particles from Primordial Black Holes." Nature 353.6347 (1991): 807-15.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

Both methods have to do with ground detection.