32 citations · 86 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
astro-ph.GA2020★ 28 cited
Finding Direct-Collapse Black Holes at Birth
Daniel J. Whalen, Marco Surace, Carla Bernhardt +4
Direct-collapse black holes (DCBHs) are currently one of the leading contenders for the origins of the first quasars in the universe, over 300 of which have now been found at …
astro-ph.GA2019★ 26 cited
On the Detection of Supermassive Primordial Stars. II. Blue Supergiants
Marco Surace, Erik Zackrisson, Daniel J. Whalen +4
Supermassive primordial stars in hot, atomically-cooling haloes at 15 - 20 may have given birth to the first quasars in the universe. Most simulations of these rapidly acc…
astro-ph.GA2018★ 32 cited
On the Detection of Supermassive Primordial Stars
Marco Surace, Daniel J. Whalen, Tilman Hartwig +6
The collapse of supermassive primordial stars in hot, atomically-cooled halos may have given birth to the first quasars at 15 - 20. Recent numerical simulations of these r…