Regan, John and Downes, Turlough P. (2018) Rise of the First Super-Massive Stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478 (4). pp. 5037-5049. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
We use high resolution adaptive mesh refinement simulations to model the formation of massive metal-free stars in the early Universe. By applying Lyman-Werner (LW) backgrounds of
100 J21 and 1000 J21 respectively we construct environments conducive to the formation of
massive stars. We find that only in the case of the higher LW backgrounds are super-critical
accretion rates realised that are necessary for super-massive star (SMS) formation. Mild fragmentation is observed for both backgrounds. Violent dynamical interactions between the stars
that form in the more massive halo formed (1000 J21 background) results in the eventual
expulsion of the two most massive stars from the halo. In the smaller mass halo (100 J21
background) mergers of stars occur before any multibody interactions and a single massive
Pop III star is left at the centre of the halo at the end of our simulation. Feedback from the
very massive Pop III stars is not effective in generating a large HII region with ionising photons absorbed within a few thousand AU of the star. In all cases a massive black hole seed
is the expected final fate of the most massive objects. The seed of the massive Pop III star
which remained at the centre of the less massive halo experiences steady accretion rates of
almost 10−2 M⊙/yr and if these rates continue could potentially experience super-Eddington
accretion rates in the immediate aftermath of collapsing into a black hole.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Cosmology; theory; large scale structure; first stars; methods; numerical; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Theoretical Physics Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute |
Item ID: | 13182 |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/mnras/sty1289 |
Depositing User: | John Regan |
Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2020 20:22 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/13182 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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