The first stars: formation, properties, and impact

RS Klessen, SCO Glover - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The first generation of stars, often called Population III (or Pop III), form from metal-free
primordial gas at redshifts z∼ 30 and below. They dominate the cosmic star-formation …

The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

[BOOK][B] Supernova explosions

D Branch, JC Wheeler - 2017 - Springer
JCW had long wanted to write a new monograph on supernovae. Despite an immense
explosion in the literature and many review articles, there had not been one since that of …

Stellar yields of rotating first stars. II. Pair-instability supernovae and comparison with observations

K Takahashi, T Yoshida, H Umeda - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent theory predicts that first stars are born with a massive initial mass of≳ 100 M⊙. Pair-
instability supernova (PISN) is a common fate for such massive stars. Our final goal is to …

Star formation in accretion discs and SMBH growth

AJ Dittmann, MC Miller - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Accretion discs around active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are potentially unstable to star
formation at large radii. We note that when the compact objects formed from some of these …

The cosmic rate of pair-instability supernovae

F Gabrielli, A Lapi, L Boco, C Ugolini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) have crucial implications for many astrophysical topics,
including the search for very massive stars, the black hole mass spectrum, and galaxy …

A tale of two sites–II. Inferring the properties of minihalo-hosted galaxies with upcoming 21-cm interferometers

Y Qin, A Mesinger, B Greig, J Park - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The first generation of galaxies is expected to form in minihaloes, accreting gas through H2
cooling, and possessing unique properties. Although unlikely to be directly detected in …

Nebular spectra of pair-instability supernovae

A Jerkstrand, SJ Smartt, A Heger - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
If very massive stars (M≳ 100 M⊙) can form and avoid too strong mass-loss during their
evolution, they are predicted to explode as pair-instability supernovae (PISNe). One critical …

The evolution of accreting population III stars at 10− 6–103 M⊙ yr− 1

D Nandal, L Zwick, DJ Whalen, L Mayer… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The first stars formed over five orders of magnitude in mass by accretion in
primordial dark matter halos. Aims. We study the evolution of massive, very massive and …

Exact and approximate expressions of energy generation rates and their impact on the explosion properties of pair instability supernovae

K Takahashi, T Yoshida, H Umeda… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Energetics of nuclear reaction is fundamentally important to understand the mechanism of
pair instability supernovae (PISNe). Based on the hydrodynamic equations and …