Last week, our paper (arXiv) on the late formation of metal-free (Population III) massive stars was accepted to the Astrophysical Journal. It was led by Hao Xu at UC – San Diego. We used a suite of high-resolution simulations, named the Renaissance Simulations, that focuses on the formation of these primordial stars and the first generation of galaxies. We searched for any living primordial stars in the simulation at a redshift of 7.6, approximately 700 million years after the Big Bang. We found 14 Population III “galaxies” in the simulation suite, forming in a variety of environments, with the largest metal-free galaxies having just over 1000 solar masses in massive stars. Continue reading New Paper: Late Primordial Star Formation
Monthly Archives: April 2016
19 Apr 2016
18 Apr 2016
15 Apr 2016
- (abs, pdf) Fiacconi & Rossi, Light or heavy supermassive black hole seeds: the role of internal rotation in the fate of supermassive stars
- (abs, pdf) Burlon et al., Gamma-ray bursts from massive Population III stars: clues from the radio band
- (abs, pdf) Mucciarelli et al., NGC6362: the least massive globular cluster with chemically distinct multiple populations
14 Apr 2016
13 Apr 2016
- (abs, pdf) Angulo et al., Earth-mass haloes and the emergence of NFW density profiles
- (abs, pdf) Aparicio et al., The ACS LCID Project XI. On the early time resolution of LG dwarf galaxy SFHs: Comparing the effects of reionization in models with observations
- (abs, pdf) Namekata & Umemura, Subparsec-scale dynamics of a dusty gas disk exposed to anisotropic AGN radiation with frequency-dependent radiative transfer
12 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016
08 Apr 2016
07 Apr 2016
- (abs, pdf) Thomas et al., A 17-billion-solar-mass black hole in a group galaxy with a diffuse core
- (abs, pdf) Davé et al., MUFASA: Galaxy Formation Simulations With Meshless Hydrodynamics
- (abs, pdf) Wang et al., Sussing Merger Trees: Stability and Convergence
- (abs, pdf) Rawlins et al., Physical conditions in three high-z H2-bearing DLAs: implications for grain size