15 papers
Little Red Dots as Intermediate Mass, Super-Eddington Engines: Insights from Type IIn Supernovae and The 1837-1856 Great Eruption of Carinae
Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Anna de Graaff +20
JWST's Little Red Dots (LRDs) display a unique constellation of features that do not occur simultaneously in any other class of galaxies or AGN. Here we observe that many of these…
Pulsational mass loss from supermassive stars creates the compact shells of Little Red Dots
Devesh Nandal, Igor Chilingarian, Chris Nagele +3
Little Red Dots (LRDs) have emerged as one of the central puzzles of the JWST era. Their spectra increasingly require dense gas close to the source, yet the physical origin of that…
Habitable Zones Around Massive Stars: From the Main Sequence to Supergiants
Devesh Nandal, Abraham Loeb
Massive stars dominate the feedback of young stellar populations, yet their ultraviolet fields and winds are often presumed to preclude Earth like habitability. We test this by map…
SEEDZ: Rapid Galaxy Assembly as a Pathway to Supermassive Stars, Dense Stellar Environments and Massive Black Hole Seeds
Lewis R. Prole, John A. Regan, Daxal Mehta +14
We investigate the assembly history of early galaxies in the SEEDZ hydrodynamic simulations, to investigate the high inflow rates believed to be required for the formation of super…
The formation of supermassive black holes from Population III.1 seeds. IV. Self-regulated seeding from supermassive star ionizing feedback
Maya A. Petkova, Jonathan C. Tan, Jasbir Singh +5
Supermassive Population III.1 stars, i.e., formed from pristine, metal-free gas leading to conditions where dark matter annihilation heating is significant, have been proposed as t…
Growth of Metal-Enriched Supermassive Stars by Accretion and Collisions
Devesh Nandal, Sunmyon Chon
Supermassive stars (SMSs) are candidate progenitors of massive black hole seeds and may contribute to anomalous abundance patterns in high-redshift galaxies and globular clusters.…