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超大质量人口III星的广义相对论不稳定性超新星

General Relativistic Instability Supernova of a Supermassive Population III Star

Ke-Jung Chen, Alexander Heger, Stan Woosley, Ann Almgren, Daniel Whalen, Jarrett Johnson

摘要:

原始星系中质量为$\gtrsim$ 10,000 Msun的超大质量第三星族恒星在$z \sim$ 15的强紫外背景下形成,可能是$z \sim$ 7形成超大质量黑洞的最可行途径。这些恒星中的大多数预计只会存活很短的时间,然后直接坍缩成黑洞,在它们的一生中几乎没有或没有质量损失。但我们现在发现,质量接近55,000 Msun的非旋转原始恒星可以作为高能量热核超新星死亡,由爆炸性氦燃烧提供动力,释放高达10 $ ^{55}$ erg的能量,或Ia型超新星能量的10,000倍。爆炸是由热光子对恒星核心引力的广义相对论贡献引发的,这导致核心收缩并爆炸性燃烧。能量的释放会完全解开恒星的束缚,不会留下任何致密的残余物,大约一半的恒星质量会以重元素的形式被喷射到早期宇宙中。在$z \lesssim$ 20到{ \it Euclid}和宽视场红外巡天望远镜(WFIRST)的近红外波段可以看到爆炸,这可能标志着超大质量黑洞种子和第一批类星体的诞生。

英文摘要:

The formation of supermassive Population III stars with masses $\gtrsim$ 10,000 Msun in primeval galaxies in strong UV backgrounds at $z \sim$ 15 may be the most viable pathway to the formation of supermassive black holes by $z \sim$ 7. Most of these stars are expected to live for short times and then directly collapse to black holes, with little or no mass loss over their lives. But we have now discovered that non-rotating primordial stars with masses close to 55,000 Msun can instead die as highly energetic thermonuclear supernovae powered by explosive helium burning, releasing up to 10$ ^{55}$ erg, or about 10,000 times the energy of a Type Ia supernova. The explosion is triggered by the general relativistic contribution of thermal photons to gravity in the core of the star, which causes the core to contract and explosively burn. The energy release completely unbinds the star, leaving no compact remnant, and about half of the mass of the star is ejected into the early cosmos in the form of heavy elements. The explosion would be visible in the near infrared at $z \lesssim$ 20 to {\it Euclid} and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), perhaps signaling the birth of supermassive black hole seeds and the first quasars.

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