在快速增长的星系前气体云中形成巨大的黑洞
John H Wise1, John A Regan2, Brian W O'Shea3,4
1Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. jwise@gatech.edu.
Nature
|January 25, 2019
概括
早期大质量黑洞的形成是由结构形成的动态驱动的, 不仅仅是辐射. 模拟显示超大质量恒星可以在没有金属的光环中形成,
科学领域:
- 宇宙学和天体物理学
- 早期宇宙的星系形成
- 黑洞形成的机制
背景情况:
- 银河系中心的超大质量黑洞 (SMBH) 的起源仍然是天体物理学中的一个重大挑战.
- 直接崩的黑洞,由大质量恒星形成 (大约 它们被认为是理想的种子.
- 这些直接崩黑洞的存在,形成环境和稀有性在早期宇宙中受到争论.
研究的目的:
- 研究超大质量恒星形成所必需的条件,
- 通过辐射水力学模拟来建模早期大质量黑洞种子.
- 在早期宇宙中形成大质量黑洞的主要驱动因素.
主要方法:
- 进行了早期星系形成的辐射水力学模拟.
- 聚焦在没有金属的光环中,
- 分析了莱曼-沃纳辐射强度和快速质量增长对超大质量恒星形成的影响.
主要成果:
- 模拟产生的无金属光环具有足够的质量和落速度形成超大质量恒星.
- 理想的环境需要莱曼-韦纳强度的~3倍的背景辐射和至少一个快速质量增长的时期.
- 气体的快速增长会诱导动态加热,扩大附近星系的莱曼-沃纳抑制.
结论:
- 结构形成的动态,而不是临界的莱曼-沃纳流,是早期大质量黑洞形成的主要驱动因素.
- 超大质量恒星的形成是由快速的光环增长和动态的加热,克服辐射反.
- 大型黑洞种子可能在过密的早期宇宙区域 (数量密度高达10^-3 Mpc^-3) 更加常见.
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