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恒星形成历史和宇宙再电离的负反馈效应

Negative feedback effects on star formation history and cosmic reionization

Lei Wang, Jirong Mao, Shouping Xiang, Ye-Fei Yuan

摘要:

在考虑了负反馈对恒星形成过程的影响后,通过研究超新星的机械反馈和发光天体的辐射反馈如何调节恒星形成速率,从而影响宇宙再电离,探讨了恒星形成过程与负反馈之间的关系.我们在λ冷暗物质模型的框架下构造了一个解析模型。在一定的参数范围内,我们的模型可以很好地解释一些观测结果。在大晕中(T_vir>10000 K),机械反馈和辐射反馈都有类似的行为:负反馈的相对强度随着红移的减小而减小。相比之下,在小晕(T_vir<10000 K$),被认为是在早期孕育第一批恒星,辐射反馈变得更强时,红移减少。而这些小晕中的恒星形成速率对恒星形成效率的依赖非常微弱。我们的研究结果表明,辐射反馈是重要的早期世代的恒星。它可以极大地抑制恒星形成率。但是SNe爆炸的机械反馈并不能显著影响早期的恒星形成。小晕天体的早期恒星形成可能是自我调节的。辐射和机械反馈一直主导着PopII/I星的恒星形成速率。第一代明星的反馈非常强烈,不应该被忽视。然而,它们对宇宙再电离的影响并不显著,这导致汤姆逊散射的光学厚度的贡献很小。

英文摘要:

After considering the effects of negative feedback on the process of star formation, we explore the relationship between star formation process and the associated feedback, by investigating how the mechanical feedback from supernovae(SNe) and radiative feedback from luminous objects regulate the star formation rate and therefore affect the cosmic reionization.Based on our present knowledge of the negative feedback theory and some numerical simulations, we construct an analytic model in the framework of the Lambda cold dark matter model. In certain parameter regions, our model can explain some observational results properly. In large halos(T_vir>10000 K), both mechanical and radiative feedback have a similar behavior: the relative strength of negative feedback reduces as the redshift decreases. In contrast, in small halos (T_vir<10000 K$) that are thought to breed the first stars at early time, the radiative feedback gets stronger when the redshift decreases. And the star formation rate in these small halos depends very weakly on the star-formation efficiency. Our results show that the radiative feedback is important for the early generation stars. It can suppress the star formation rate considerably. But the mechanical feedback from the SNe explosions is not able to affect the early star formation significantly. The early star formation in small-halo objects is likely to be self-regulated. The radiative and mechanical feedback dominates the star formation rate of the PopII/I stars all along. The feedback from first generation stars is very strong and should not be neglected. However, their effects on the cosmic reionization are not significant, which results in a small contribution to the optical depth of Thomson scattering.

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