The Supersonic Project: Shining Light on SIGOs - a New Formation Channel for Globular Clusters

Abstract

Supersonically induced gas objects (SIGOs) with little to no dark matter component are predicted to exist in patches of the Universe with non-negligible relative velocity between baryons and the dark matter at the time of recombination. Using {\sc arepo} hydrodynamic simulations we find that the gas densities inside these objects are high enough to allow stars to form. An estimate of the luminosity of the first star clusters formed within these SIGOs suggests that they may be observed at high redshift using future HST and JWST observations. Furthermore, our simulations indicate that SIGOs lie in a distinct place in the luminosity-radius parameter space, which can be used observationally to distinguish SIGOs from dark-matter hosting gas systems. Finally, as a proof-of-concept, we model star formation before reionization and evolve these systems to current times. We find that SIGOs occupy a similar part of the magnitude-radius parameter space as globular clusters. These results suggest that SIGOs may be linked with present-day metal-poor local globular clusters. Since the relative velocity between the baryons and dark matter is coherent over a few Mpc scales, we predict that if this is the dominant mechanism for the formation of globular clusters, their abundance should vary significantly over these scales.

arXiv comment9 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJL

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