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Title:
Distribution of the Very First Population III Stars and Their Relation to Bright z~6 Quasars
Authors:
Trenti, M.; Stiavelli, M.
Affiliation:
AA(Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive Baltimore MD 21218; ), AB(Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive Baltimore MD 21218; and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218; )
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 667, Issue 1, pp. 38-48. (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
09/2007
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
Cosmology: Theory, Cosmology: Early Universe, Galaxies: High-Redshift, Methods: n-Body Simulations
DOI:
10.1086/520502
Bibliographic Code:
2007ApJ...667...38T

Abstract

We discuss the link between dark matter halos hosting the first Population III stars and the rare, massive halos that are generally considered to host bright quasars at high redshift (z~6). The main question that we intend to answer is whether the supermassive black holes powering these QSOs grew out from the seeds planted by the first intermediate-mass black holes created in the universe. This question involves a dynamical range of 1013 in mass, and we address it by combining N-body simulations of structure formation to identify the most massive halos at z~6 with a Monte Carlo method based on linear theory to obtain the location and formation times of the first-light halos within the whole simulation box. We show that the descendants of the first ~106 Msolar virialized halos do not, on average, end in the most massive halos at z~6, but rather live in a large variety of environments. The oldest Population III progenitors of the most massive halos at z~6 form instead from density peaks that are on average 1.5 σ more common than the first Population III star formed in the volume occupied by one bright high-z QSO. The intermediate-mass black hole seeds planted by the very first Population III stars at z>~40 can easily grow to masses mBH>109.5 Msolar by z=6 assuming Eddington accretion with radiative efficiency ɛ<~0.1. Quenching of the black hole accretion is therefore crucial to avoid an overabundance of supermassive black holes at lower redshift. This can be obtained if the mass accretion is limited to a fraction η~6×10-3 of the total baryon mass of the halo hosting the black hole. The resulting high-end slope of the black hole mass function at z=6 is α~-3.7, a value within the 1 σ error bar for the bright-end slope of the observed quasar luminosity function at z=6.
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