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We use large-scale cosmological simulations to study the prospect of observing Population III (Pop III) bright galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). To quantify the impact of radiative transfer (RT), we compare a simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-27 Richard Sarmento , Evan Scannapieco

We make use of new subgrid model of turbulent mixing to accurately follow the cosmological evolution of the first stars, the mixing of their supernova ejecta, and the impact on the chemical composition of the Galactic Halo. Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 Richard Sarmento , Evan Scannapieco , Liubin Pan

We investigate the formation of metal-free, Population III (Pop III), stars within a minihalo at z ~ 20 with a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation, starting from cosmological initial conditions. Employing a hierarchical,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Stacy , T. H. Greif , V. Bromm

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

We perform a large set of cosmological simulations of early structure formation and follow the formation and evolution of 1540 star-forming gas clouds to derive the mass distribution of primordial stars. The star formation in our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-10 Shingo Hirano , Takashi Hosokawa , Naoki Yoshida , Kazuyuki Omukai , Harold W. Yorke

We provide a status report on our current understanding of the mass scales for Pop III.1 and Pop III.2 stars. Since the last review (Norman 2008), substantial progress has been made both numerically and analytically on the late stages of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael L. Norman

The first stars to form in the Universe -- the so-called Population III stars -- bring an end to the cosmological Dark Ages, and exert an important influence on the formation of subsequent generations of stars and on the assembly of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Simon C. O. Glover

We present a semi-analytic, computationally inexpensive model to identify halos capable of forming a Population III star in cosmological simulations across a wide range of times and environments. This allows for a much more complete and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Brian D. Crosby , Brian W. O'Shea , Britton D. Smith , Matthew J. Turk , Oliver Hahn

We perform high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to study the formation of the first galaxies that reach the masses of $10^{8-9}~h^{-1}~M_\odot$ at $z=9$. The resolution of the simulations is high enough to resolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Makito Abe , Hidenobu Yajima , Sadegh Khochfar , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Kazuyuki Omukai

We present results on the formation of Pop III stars at redshift 7.6 from the Renaissance Simulations, a suite of extremely high-resolution and physics-rich radiation transport hydrodynamics cosmological adaptive-mesh refinement simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Hao Xu , Michael L. Norman , Brian W. O'Shea , John H. Wise

In this paper, part of a series on the effects of X-ray sources in promoting Population III (Pop III) star formation, we investigate the ionisation and heating of the intergalactic medium (IGM) and the consequent enhancement of molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-30 Jongwon Park , Massimo Ricotti

Metals from Population III (Pop III) supernovae led to the formation of less massive Pop II stars in the early universe, altering the course of evolution of primeval galaxies and cosmological reionization. There are a variety of scenarios…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Ke-Jung Chen , Daniel J. Whalen , Katharina M. J. Wollenberg , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

We explore the formation of massive high-redshift Population III (Pop III) galaxies through photoionization feedback. We consider dark matter halos formed from progenitors that have undergone no star formation as a result of early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 Eli Visbal , Zoltan Haiman , Greg L. Bryan

We present an extension of our semi-analytic model that follows the formation of Population III stars and their metal-enriched descendants, incorporating dark matter halo merger trees from cosmological $N$-body simulations and feedback from…

Turbulence, magnetic fields and radiation feedback are key components that shape the formation of stars, especially in the metal-free environments at high redshifts where Population III stars form. Yet no 3D numerical simulations exist that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-19 Piyush Sharda , Shyam H. Menon

We numerically study the mutual interaction between dark matter (DM) and Population III (Pop III) stellar systems in order to explore the possibility of Pop III dark stars within this physical scenario. We perform a cosmological simulation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Athena Stacy , Andreas H. Pawlik , Volker Bromm , Abraham Loeb

Population III stars supplied the first light and metals in the Universe, setting the pace of re-ionisation and early chemical enrichment. In dense haloes their evolution can be strongly influenced by the energy released when WIMPs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Anais Pauchet , Devesh Nandal

We investigate the impact of an early population of massive stars on their surroundings. Dissociation of molecular hydrogen by strong UV emission from such stars is expected to produce a global transition in the cooling mechanism of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Jonathan Mackey , Volker Bromm , Lars Hernquist

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