Correlated gravitational wave and microlensing signals of macroscopic dark matter

Understand

Fermion dark matter particles can aggregate to form extended dark matter structures via a first-order phase transition in which the particles get trapped in the false vacuum.

• We study Fermi balls created in a phase transition induced by a generic quartic thermal effective potential.
• We show that for Fermi balls of mass, $3\times 10^{-12}M_\odot \lesssim M_{\rm FB} \lesssim 10^{-5}M_\odot$, correlated observations of gravitational waves produced during the phase transition (at SKA/THEIA/$\mu$Ares), and gravitational microlensing caused by Fermi balls (at Subaru-HSC), can be made.