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暴露于莱曼-维尔纳辐射的原子冷却晕内的碎裂

Fragmentation inside atomic cooling haloes exposed to Lyman-Werner radiation

John A. Regan, Turlough P. Downes

摘要:

在宇宙早期的原始环境中诞生的超大质量恒星有希望成为超大质量黑洞的种子,在再电离时代之后不久被观测为高红移类星体。H $_2$的抑制被认为是至关重要的,以否定正常的第三星族恒星的形成,并允许高吸积率驱动超大质量恒星的形成。只有在避免剧烈碎裂的情况下,整体坍缩才能成功地产生一个单一的大质量中心物体。我们研究了在不同水平的背景莱曼-维尔纳通量作用下,原子冷却晕坍缩中形成的碎裂位点的数量。背景莱曼-沃纳通量通过破坏H $_2$来操纵坍缩晕中气体的化学性质。我们发现,只有当崩溃的气体云转移从分子到原子冷却制度是破碎程度的抑制。在我们的特殊情况下,我们发现这发生在J $\sim 10$ J $_{21}$的临界莱曼-沃纳背景之上。重要的标准是过渡到原子冷却制度,而不是J的实际值,这将局部变化。一旦气体的温度超过T $\gtrsim$ 10 $^4$ K并且气体转变为原子线冷却,则强烈的碎裂被强烈抑制。

英文摘要:

Supermassive stars born in pristine environments in the early Universe hold the promise of being the seeds for the supermassive black holes observed as high redshift quasars shortly after the epoch of reionisation. H$_2$ suppression is thought to be crucial in order to negate normal Population III star formation and allow high accretion rates to drive the formation of supermassive stars. Only in the cases where vigorous fragmentation is avoided will a monolithic collapse be successful giving rise to a single massive central object. We investigate the number of fragmentation sites formed in collapsing atomic cooling haloes subject to various levels of background Lyman-Werner flux. The background Lyman-Werner flux manipulates the chemical properties of the gas in the collapsing halo by destroying H$_2$. We find that only when the collapsing gas cloud shifts from the molecular to the atomic cooling regime is the degree of fragmentation suppressed. In our particular case we find that this occurs above a critical Lyman-Werner background of J $\sim 10$ J$_{21}$. The important criterion being the transition to the atomic cooling regime rather than the actual value of J, which will vary locally. Once the temperature of the gas exceeds T $\gtrsim$ 10$^4$ K and the gas transitions to atomic line cooling, then vigorous fragmentation is strongly suppressed.

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