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Description
In this talk I will present forecasts on the capability of the Einstein Telescope to identify and measure the abundance of a subdominant population of distant PBHs, distinguishing it from Astrophysical Black Holes (ABH), using the difference in the redshift evolution of the merger rate of the two populations as our discriminant. After presenting our model for the merger rates and I will show how we generate realistic mock catalogues of the luminosity distances and errors that would be obtained from GW signals observed by the Einstein Telescope. I will then present two independent statistical methods to analyse the mock data, and I will show in our results the limiting fraction of dark matter in PBHs for which these methods would be able to obtain a detection of their existence.
