kth.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Starbursts in low-mass haloes at Cosmic Dawn. I.: The critical halo mass for star formation
Stockholm Univ, Dept Astron, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.;Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden..
KTH, Centres, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics NORDITA. Stockholm Univ, Hannes Alfvens vag 12, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden..
Stockholm Univ, Dept Astron, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.;Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden..
2023 (English)In: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN 0035-8711, E-ISSN 1365-2966, Vol. 524, no 2, p. 2290-2311Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The first stars, galaxies, star clusters, and direct-collapse black holes are expected to have formed in low-mass (∼105-109 M⊙) haloes at Cosmic Dawn (z ∼10-30) under conditions of efficient gas cooling, leading to gas collapse towards the centre of the halo. The halo mass cooling threshold has been analysed by several authors using both analytical models and numerical simulations, with differing results. Since the halo number density is a sensitive function of the halo mass, an accurate model of the cooling threshold is needed for (semi-)analytical models of star formation at Cosmic Dawn. In this paper, the cooling threshold mass is calculated (semi-)analytically, considering the effects of H2-cooling and formation (in the gas phase and on dust grains), cooling by atomic metals, Lyman-α cooling, photodissociation of H2 by Lyman-Werner photons (including self-shielding by H2), photodetachment of H- by infrared photons, photoevaporation by ionization fronts, and the effect of baryon streaming velocities. We compare the calculations to several high-resolution cosmological simulations, showing excellent agreement. We find that in regions of typical baryon streaming velocities, star formation is possible in haloes of mass ≲ 1-2 × 106 M⊙ for z ≳ 20. By z ≲8, the expected Lyman-Werner background suppresses star formation in all minihaloes below the atomic cooling threshold (Tvir = 104 K). The halo mass cooling threshold increases by another factor of ∼4 following reionization, although this effect is slightly delayed (z ∼4-5) because of effective self-shielding.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press (OUP) , 2023. Vol. 524, no 2, p. 2290-2311
Keywords [en]
galaxies: formation, dark ages, reionization, first stars, dark matter
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-334740DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1852ISI: 001031787300004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85166644417OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-334740DiVA, id: diva2:1791162
Note

QC 20230824

Available from: 2023-08-24 Created: 2023-08-24 Last updated: 2024-04-15Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Giri, Sambit K.

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Giri, Sambit K.
By organisation
Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics NORDITA
In the same journal
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 15 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf