Accretion onto black holes formed by direct collapse

Abstract

One possible scenario for the formation of massive black holes (BHs) in the early Universe is from the direct collapse of primordial gas in atomic-cooling dark matter haloes in which the gas is unable to cool efficiently via molecular transitions. We study the formation of such BHs, as well as the accretion of gas onto these objects and the high energy radiation emitted in the accretion process, by carrying out cosmological radiation hydrodynamics simulations. In the absence of radiative feedback, we find an upper limit to the accretion rate onto the central object which forms from the initial collapse of hot (~ 10^4 K) gas of the order of 0.1 MSun per year. This is high enough for the formation of a supermassive star, the immediate precursor of a BH, with a mass of the order of 10^5 MSun. Assuming that a fraction of this mass goes into a BH, we track the subsequent accretion of gas onto the BH self-consistently with the high energy radiation emitted from the accretion disk. Using a ray-tracing algorithm to follow the propagation of ionizing radiation, we model in detail the evolution of the photoionized region which forms around the accreting BH. We find that BHs with masses of the order of 10^4 MSun initially accrete at close to the Eddington limit, but that the accretion rate drops to of order 1 percent of the Eddington limit after ~ 10^6 yr, due to the expansion of the gas near the BH in response to strong photoheating and radiation pressure. One signature of the accretion of gas onto BHs formed by direct collapse, as opposed to massive Pop III star formation, is an extremely high ratio of the luminosity emitted in He II 1640 to that emitted in H_alpha (or Ly_alpha); this could be detected by the James Webb Space Telescope. Finally, we briefly discuss implications for the coevolution of BHs and their host galaxies.

16 pages; 17 figures, slightly reduced quality; MNRAS in press

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