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We utilize GIZMO, coupled with newly developed sub-grid models for Population~III (Pop~III) and Population~II (Pop~II), to study the legacy of star formation in the pre-reionization Universe. We find that the Pop~II star formation rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Jason Jaacks , Steven L. Finkelstein , Volker Bromm

We present a new Pop III + Pop II subgrid framework implemented in the moving-mesh code {\sc arepo}, designed to study the impact of Pop III feedback on star formation in the early universe. The framework combines primordial non-equilibrium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-04 Bocheng Zhu , Liang Gao

We have developed a semi-analytic framework to model the large-scale evolution of the first Population III (Pop III) stars and the transition to metal-enriched star formation. Our model follows dark matter halos from cosmological N-body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Eli Visbal , Zoltan Haiman , Greg L. Bryan

The chemical enrichment of the early Universe is a crucial element in the formation and evolution of galaxies, and Population III (PopIII) stars must play a vital role in this process. In this study, we examine metal enrichment from massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-07 Devesh Nandal , John A. Regan , Tyrone E. Woods , Eoin Farrell , Sylvia Ekström , Georges Meynet

We aim to provide the first data-constrained estimate of the metal-free (Population III; Pop III) star formation rate density $\dot{\rho}_{*}^{III}$ required at high-redshifts ($z \gtrsim 16$) in order to reproduce both the amplitude and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Atrideb Chatterjee , Pratika Dayal , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Raffaella Schneider

We investigate the distribution of metals in the cosmological volume at $z\sim3$, in particular, provided by massive population III (Pop III) stars using a cosmological $N$-body simulation in which a model of Pop III star formation is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Takanobu Kirihara , Kenji Hasegawa , Masayuki Umemura , Masao Mori , Tomoaki Ishiyama

We present a new self-consistent semi-analytic model of the first stars and galaxies to explore the high-redshift ($z{>}15$) Population III (PopIII) and metal-enriched star formation histories. Our model includes the detailed merger history…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Colton R. Feathers , Mihir Kulkarni , Eli Visbal , Ryan Hazlett

We study the observational consequences of several unknown properties of Population III (Pop III) stars using large-scale cosmological simulations that include a subgrid model to track the unresolved mixing of pollutants. Varying the value…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Richard Sarmento , Evan Scannapieco , Benoit Côté

By definition, Population III stars are metal-free, and their protostellar collapse is driven by molecular hydrogen cooling in the gas-phase, leading to large characteristic masses. Population II stars with lower characteristic masses form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John H. Wise , Matthew J. Turk , Michael L. Norman , Tom Abel

We present a semi-analytic model of star formation in the early universe, beginning with the first metal-free stars. By employing a completely feedback-limited star formation prescription, stars form at maximum efficiency until the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 Richard H. Mebane , Jordan Mirocha , Steven R. Furlanetto

Recent high-resolution simulations of early structure formation have shown that externally enriched halos may form some of the first metal enriched stars. This study utilizes a 1 comoving Mpc$^3$ high-resolution simulation to study the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 William Hicks , Azton Wells , Michael L. Norman , John H. Wise , Britton D. Smith , Brian W. O'Shea

Population-III (Pop-III) starformation (SF) is thought to be quenched when the metallicity of the star-forming gas reaches a critical level. At high z, when the general intergalactic medium (IGM) was enriched with metals, the fraction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Stuart Wyithe , Renyue Cen

We review recent 3D cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of primordial star formation from cosmological initial conditions (Pop III.1) and from initial conditions that have been altered by radiative feedback from stellar sources (Pop…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Michael L. Norman

We calculate the evolution of zero-metallicity Population III (Pop III) stars whose mass grows from the initial mass of $\sim 1M_{\odot}$ by accreting the surrounding gases. Our calculations cover a whole evolutionary stages from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-18 Takuya Ohkubo , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Hideyuki Umeda , Naoki Yoshida , Sachiko Tsuruta

The first stars, known as Population III (PopIII), produced the first heavy elements, thereby enriching their surrounding pristine gas. Previous detections of metals in intergalactic gas clouds, however, find a heavy element enrichment…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Neil H. M. Crighton , John M. O'Meara , Michael T. Murphy

We implemented Population III (Pop. III) star formation in mini-halos within the MERAXES semi-analytic galaxy formation and reionisation model, run on top of a N-body simulation with $L = 10 h^{-1}$ cMpc with 2048$^3$ particles resolving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-22 Emanuele M. Ventura , Yuxiang Qin , Sreedhar Balu , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

We conduct a comprehensive investigation of the detectability of the first stars and their enrichment signatures in galaxy clusters. We show that the mean metallicity of outflows from objects containing these Population III (PopIII) stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Evan Scannapieco , Raffaella Schneider , Andrea Ferrara

We develop a new semi-analytic framework of Population (Pop) III and subsequent galaxy formation designed to run on dark matter halo merger trees. In our framework, we consider the effect of the Lyman-Werner flux from Pop III and II stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-09 Tomoaki Ishiyama , Shingo Hirano

We propose a semi-analytic model that is developed to understand the cosmological evolution of the mean metallicity in the Universe. In particular, we study the contributions of Population III (Pop III) and Population II (Pop II) stars to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Lia C. Corazza , Oswaldo D. Miranda , Carlos A. Wuensche

We study cosmic metal enrichment via AMR hydrodynamical simulations in a (10 Mpc/h)$^3$ volume following the Pop III-Pop II transition and for different Pop III IMFs. We have analyzed the joint evolution of metal enrichment on galactic and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Pallottini , A. Ferrara , S. Gallerani , S. Salvadori , V. D'Odorico
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