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The cooling of shock-compressed primordial gas
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Johnson, Jarrett Bromm, Volker |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | We find that at redshifts z > ∼ 10, HD line cooling allows strongly-shocked primordial gas to cool to the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This temperature is the minimum value attainable via radiative cooling. Provided that the abundance of HD, normalized to the total number density, exceeds a critical level of ∼ 10, the CMB temperature floor is reached in a time which is short compared to the Hubble time. We estimate the characteristic masses of stars formed out of shocked primordial gas in the wake of the first supernovae, and resulting from the mergers of dark matter haloes during hierarchical structure formation to be ∼ 10M⊙. In addition, we show that cooling by HD enables the primordial gas in relic H II regions to cool to temperatures considerably lower than those reached via H2 cooling alone. We confirm that HD cooling is unimportant in cases where the primordial gas does not go through an ionized phase, as in the formation process of the very first stars in z > ∼ 20 minihaloes of mass ∼ 106M⊙. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0505304v1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0505304v2.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | COSMIC Computer cooling Cool - action Dark Matter H2 Database Engine HD Term Type Microwave Shock Stars, Celestial Total Number |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
