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The First Compact Objects in the $\Lambda$-dominated Universe

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We calculate the evolution of a low-mass (M105MM \le 10^5 M_{\odot}) spherically symmetric density perturbation in the Ωbh2=0.02\Omega_b h^2=0.02, ΩM=0.35\Omega_M =0.35, ΩΛ=0.65\Omega_{\Lambda}=0.65, h=0.72h=0.72 Universe. The results are compared with the ones that assume no cosmological constant and the flat, dark matter dominated Universe. We include thermal processes and non-equilibrium chemical evolution of the collapsing gas. We find that direct formation of bound objects with such masses by z=8z=8 is unlikely so in fact they may form only through fragmentation of greater objects. This is in stark contrast to the Ω=1\Omega=1 pure CDM cosmology, where low-mass objects form abundantly at redshits z>10z>10.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0212134,
  title  = {The First Compact Objects in the $\Lambda$-dominated Universe},
  author = {Slawomir Stachniewicz and Marek Kutschera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0212134},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX 2e, 7 pages, 9 figures, to appear in MNRAS, uses mn2e style (included) with graphicx and natbib (included) packages