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Observational constraints on supermassive dark stars
Erik Zackrisson, Pat Scott, Claes-Erik Rydberg +6
Some of the first stars could be cooler and more massive than standard stellar models would suggest, due to the effects of dark matter annihilation in their cores. It has recently…
The WIMP capture process for dark stars in the early universe
Sofia Sivertsson, Paolo Gondolo
The first stars to form in the universe may have been dark stars, powered by dark matter annihilation instead of nuclear fusion. The initial amount of dark matter gathered by the s…
Finding high-redshift dark stars with the James Webb Space Telescope
Erik Zackrisson, Pat Scott, Claes-Erik Rydberg +7
The first stars in the history of the Universe are likely to form in the dense central regions of 10^5-10^6 Msolar cold dark matter halos at z=10-50. The annihilation of dark matte…