Kindling the First Stars II: Dependence of the Predicted PISN Rate on the Pop III Initial Mass Function

Alessa Ibrahim Wiggins, Mia Sauda Bovill, Louis-Gregory Strolger +2

Population III (Pop III) stars formed out of metal free gas in minihalos at $z>20$. While their ignition ended the Dark Ages and begin enrichment of the IGM, their mass distributio…