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 …

[HTML][HTML] H2 formation on interstellar dust grains: The viewpoints of theory, experiments, models and observations

V Wakelam, E Bron, S Cazaux, F Dulieu, C Gry… - Molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Molecular hydrogen is the most abundant molecule in the universe. It is the first one to form
and survive photo-dissociation in tenuous environments. Its formation involves catalytic …

Formation of supermassive black hole seeds

MA Latif, A Ferrara - Publications of the Astronomical Society of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
The detection of quasars at z> 6 unveils the presence of supermassive black holes of a few
billion solar masses. The rapid formation process of these extreme objects remains a …

Cradles of the first stars: self-shielding, halo masses, and multiplicity

D Skinner, JH Wise - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The formation of Population III (Pop III) stars is a critical step in the evolution of the early
Universe. To understand how these stars affected their metal-enriched descendants, the …

Direct collapse supermassive black holes from relic particle decay

Y Lu, ZSC Picker, A Kusenko - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We investigate the formation of high-redshift supermassive black holes (SMBHs) via the
direct collapse of baryonic clouds, where the unwanted formation of molecular hydrogen is …

From the first stars to the first black holes

R Valiante, R Schneider, M Volonteri… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The growth of the first supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at z> 6 is still a major challenge
for theoretical models. If it starts from black hole (BH) remnants of Population III stars (light …

Merge or survive: number of Population III stars per minihalo

H Susa - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The formation process of Population III (PopIII) stars in the mass-accretion phase is
investigated by numerical experiments. The barotropic relation of primordial gas and …

On the number density of 'direct collapse'black hole seeds

M Habouzit, M Volonteri, M Latif… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Supermassive black holes (BHs) reside in the centre of most local galaxies, but they also
power active galactic nuclei and quasars, detected up to z= 7. These quasars put constraints …

The influence of streaming velocities on the formation of the first stars

ATP Schauer, SCO Glover, RS Klessen… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
How, when, and where the first stars formed are fundamental questions regarding the epoch
of cosmic dawn. A second-order effect in the fluid equations was recently found to make a …