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Simulating Population (Pop.) III star formation in mini-halos in a large cosmological simulation is an extremely challenging task but it is crucial to estimate its impact on the 21cm power spectrum. In this work, we develop a framework…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Emanuele M. Ventura , Yuxiang Qin , Sreedhar Balu , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Using varying models for the star formation rate (SFR) of Population (Pop) III and II stars at z>6 we derive the expected redshift history of the global 21 cm signal from the inter-galactic medium (IGM). To recover the observed Thomson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hidenobu Yajima , Sadegh Khochfar

The properties of Population III (Pop III) stars impact many aspects of primeval structure formation such as the onset of cosmological reionization and early chemical enrichment. However, in spite of over twenty years of numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Li-Hsin Chen , Ke-Jung Chen , Sung-han Tsai , Daniel Whalen

The first generation of stars, known as Population III (Pop III), played a crucial role in the early Universe through their unique formation environment and metal-free composition. These stars can undergo chemically homogeneous evolution…

It is extremely important to understand the processes through which the thermal state of the inter-galactic medium (IGM) evolved in the early universe in order to study the evolution of HI 21-cm signal during cosmic dawn. Here, we consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-29 Ankita Bera , Saumyadip Samui , Kanan K. Datta

Observations of the 21-cm signal are opening a window to the cosmic-dawn epoch, when the first stars formed. These observations are usually interpreted with semi-numerical or hydrodynamical simulations, which are often computationally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Hector Afonso G. Cruz , Julian B. Munoz , Nashwan Sabti , Marc Kamionkowski

Investigating the properties of the first stars in the universe is essential, yet it remains an open question. One way to explore these stars is by examining their effects on the surrounding gas during the epoch of reionization. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Sho Ukai , Hayato Shimabukuro , Kenji Hasegawa , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The spectral absorption lines in early-type galaxies contain a wealth of information regarding the detailed abundance pattern, star formation history, and stellar initial mass function (IMF) of the underlying stellar population. Using our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Charlie Conroy , Pieter van Dokkum

The 21-cm signal in the vicinity of the first stars is expected to reflect properties of the first stars. In this study we pay special attention to tracing the time evolution of the ionizing photons' escape fraction, which affects the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Toshiyuki Tanaka , Kenji Hasegawa , Hidenobu Yajima , Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Naoshi Sugiyama

Theoretically modelling the 21-cm signals caused by Population III stars (Pop III stars) is the key to extracting fruitful information on Pop III stars from current and forthcoming 21-cm observations. In this work we develop a new module of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-20 Toshiyuki Tanaka , Kenji Hasegawa

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

We investigate the effects of Population III (Pop III) stars and their remnants on the cosmological 21-cm global signal. By combining a semi-analytic model of Pop III star formation with a global 21-cm simulation code, we investigate how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Richard H. Mebane , Jordan Mirocha , Steven R. Furlanetto

The absence of direct high redshift observations poses a significant challenge in understanding the properties of first stars. Nonetheless, the cumulative effect of entire stellar populations can be studied with current data. In this work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Omer Zvi Katz , Diego Redigolo , Tomer Volansky

Motivated by theoretical predictions that first stars were predominantly very massive, we investigate the physics of the transition from an early epoch dominated by massive Pop III stars to a later epoch dominated by familiar low-mass Pop…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Schneider , R. Salvaterra , A. Ferrara , B. Ciardi

The first Pop III stars formed out of primordial, metal free gas, in minihalos at z>20, and kickstarted the cosmic processes of reionizaton and enrichment. While these stars are likely more massive than their enriched counterparts, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-21 Mia Sauda Bovill , Massimo Stiavelli , Alessa Ibrahim Wiggins , Massimo Ricotti , Michele Trenti

The strength of gravity-sensitive absorption lines in the integrated light of old stellar populations is one of the few direct probes of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) outside of the Milky Way. Owing to the advent of fully depleted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pieter van Dokkum , Charlie Conroy

Upcoming ground and space-based experiments may have sufficient accuracy to place significant constraints upon high-redshift star formation, Reionization, and dark matter (DM) using the global 21-cm signal of the intergalactic medium. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Joshua J. Hibbard , Jordan Mirocha , David Rapetti , Neil Bassett , Jack O. Burns , Keith Tauscher

Mass measurements and absorption line studies indicate that the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is bottom-heavy in the central regions of many early-type galaxies, with an excess of low mass stars compared to the IMF of the Milky Way.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Pieter van Dokkum , Charlie Conroy

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

Observations of both galaxies in the distant Universe and local starbursts are showing increasing evidence for very hard ionizing spectra that stellar population synthesis models struggle to reproduce. Here we explore the effects of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 E. R. Stanway , J. J. Eldridge
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