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$\mathrm{H_2}$ cooling and gravitational collapse of supersonically induced gas objects

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2022-03-14 v2

Abstract

We study the formation and gravitational collapse of supersonically induced gas objects (SIGOs) in the early universe. We run cosmological hydrodynamics simulations of SIGOs, including relative streaming motions between baryons and dark matter. Our simulations also follow nonequilibrium chemistry and molecular hydrogen cooling in primordial gas clouds. A number of SIGOs are formed in the run with fast-streaming motions of 2 times the rms of the cosmological velocity fluctuations. We identify a particular gas cloud that condensates by H2_2 cooling without being hosted by a dark matter halo. The SIGO remains outside the virial radius of its closest halo, and it becomes Jeans unstable when the central gas-particle density reaches 100 cm3\sim 100~{\rm cm}^{-3} with a temperature of \sim 200 K. The corresponding Jeans mass is 105M\sim 10^5 M_{\odot}, and thus the formation of primordial stars or a star cluster is expected in the SIGO.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.10089,
  title  = {$\mathrm{H_2}$ cooling and gravitational collapse of supersonically induced gas objects},
  author = {Yurina Nakazato and Gen Chiaki and Naoki Yoshida and Smadar Naoz and William Lake and Yeou S. Chiou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10089},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJL