Late Pop III Star Formation During the Epoch of Reionization: Results from the Renaissance Simulations

Abstract

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 of high redshift galaxy formation performed on the Blue Waters supercomputer. In a survey volume of about 220 comoving Mpc${}^3$, we found 14 Pop III galaxies with recent star formation. The surprisingly late formation of Pop III stars is possible due to two factors: (i) the metal enrichment process is local and slow, leaving plenty of pristine gas to exist in the vast volume; and (ii) strong Lyman-Werner radiation from vigorous metal-enriched star formation in early galaxies suppresses Pop III formation in ("not so") small primordial halos with mass less than $\sim$ 3 $\times$ 10${}^7$ M${}_{\odot }$. We quantify the properties of these Pop III galaxies and their Pop III star formation environments. We look for analogues to the recently discovered luminous Ly $\alpha$ emitter CR7 (Sobral et al. 2015), which has been interpreted as a Pop III star cluster within or near a metal-enriched star forming galaxy. We find and discuss a system similar to this in some respects, however the Pop III star cluster is far less massive and luminous than CR7 is inferred to be.

8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. Accepted by ApJ

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