The Formation of Population III Binaries from Cosmological Initial Conditions
arXiv:0907.2919 · doi:10.1126/science.1173540
Abstract
Previous high resolution cosmological simulations predict the first stars to appear in the early universe to be very massive and to form in isolation. Here we discuss a cosmological simulation in which the central 50 solar mass clump breaks up into two cores, having a mass ratio of two to one, with one fragment collapsing to densities of 10^{-8} g/cc. The second fragment, at a distance of 800 astronomical units, is also optically thick to its own cooling radiation from molecular hydrogen lines, but is still able to cool via collision-induced emission. The two dense peaks will continue to accrete from the surrounding cold gas reservoir over a period of 10^5 years and will likely form a binary star system.
Accepted by Science, first published online on July 9, 2009 in Science Express. 16 pages, 4 figures, includes supporting online material
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