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Linear adiabatic analysis for general relativistic instability in primordial accreting supermassive stars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-09-11 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Accreting supermassive stars of 105M\gtrsim 10^{5}\,M_\odot will eventually collapse directly to a black hole via the general relativistic (GR) instability. Such direct collapses of supermassive stars are thought to be a possible formation channel for supermassive black holes at z>6z > 6. In this work, we investigate the final mass of accreting Population III stars with constant accretion rates between 0.010.01 and 1000M1000\,M_\odotyr1^{-1}. We determine the final mass by solving the differential equation for the general relativistic linear adiabatic radial pulsations. We find that models with accretion rates 0.05M\gtrsim 0.05\,M_\odotyr1^{-1} experience the GR instability at masses depending on the accretion rates. The critical masses are larger for higher accretion rates, ranging from 8×104M8\times10^{4}\,M_\odot for 0.05M0.05\,M_\odotyr1^{-1} to 106M\sim10^6\,M_\odot for 1000M1000\,M_\odotyr1^{-1}. The 0.05M0.05\,M_\odotyr1^{-1} model reaches the GR instability at the end of the core hydrogen burning. The higher mass models with the higher accretion rates reach the GR instability during the hydrogen burning stage.

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@article{arxiv.2406.18040,
  title  = {Linear adiabatic analysis for general relativistic instability in primordial accreting supermassive stars},
  author = {Hideyuki Saio and Devesh Nandal and Sylvia Ekstroem and George Meynet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18040},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A