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Early Supermassive Black Holes and Little Red Dots Require Free-Fall Growth
Junehyoung Jeon, Volker Bromm, Michael Boylan-Kolchin +1
Supermassive black holes/active galactic nuclei (SMBHs/AGN), forming only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang as observed with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), cha…
The Road to Normalcy: Environment-Driven Evolutionary Pathways for Primordial Black Holes
Saiyang Zhang, Junehyoung Jeon, Boyuan Liu +2
We investigate how cosmological environment regulates the evolution of primordial black hole (PBH) seeds in the early universe using a suite of hydrodynamical simulations. Unlike t…
Resolving galaxy formation in the early Universe with BonFIRE and CampFIRE
Jenna Samuel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Robert Feldmann +16
The abundance and rapid growth of galaxies at cosmic dawn revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope challenges models of galaxy formation, motivating new simulations to uncover th…
The Cliff: A Metal-Poor Little Red Dot Hosting an Overmassive Black Hole at
Lucy R. Ivey, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +18
JWST has revealed a large population of massive black holes (BHs) in the early Universe with unusual properties which mark them as distinct from low-redshift active galactic nuclei…
What is Powering the Enigmatic He II Emitter Hebe: The First Stars or Black Holes?
Junehyoung Jeon, Tae Bong Jeong, Saiyang Zhang +1
Recent high-resolution spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has confirmed the presence of a strong He II emitting clump in the vicinity of GN-z11,…
Primordial Black Holes as Seeds for Extremely Overmassive AGN Observed by JWST
Saiyang Zhang, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm +1
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently identified Abell 2744-QSO1 as a compact, metal-poor, black hole (BH) dominated galaxy at . This system exhibits an ext…
A Novel Formation Channel for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the Early Universe via Primordial Black Holes
Saiyang Zhang, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm
We present a novel formation channel for supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in the early Universe, driven by primordial black holes (PBHs). Using high-resolution hydrodynamica…
Impact of initial mass function on the chemical evolution of high-redshift galaxies
Boyuan Liu, Michela Mapelli, Volker Bromm +10
Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found evidence for an invariant relation between stellar mass, metallicity, and star formation rate up to $z\sim 8…
Primordial black holes as dark matter candidates: Multi-frequency constraints from cosmic radiation backgrounds
C. Casanueva-Villarreal, N. Padilla, P. B. Tissera +2
Aims. This study investigates the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) in shaping cosmic radiation backgrounds--the cosmic X-ray background (CXB), the Lyman-Werner background (LWB…
A black hole in a near-pristine galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang
Roberto Maiolino, Hannah Uebler, Francesco D'Eugenio +36
The recent discovery of a large number of massive black holes within the first two billion years after the Big Bang, as well as their peculiar properties, have been largely unexpec…
Effects of chemically homogeneous evolution of the first stars on the 21-cm signal and reionization
Boyuan Liu, Daniel Kessler, Thomas Gessey-Jones +6
The first generation of stars, known as Population III (Pop III), played a crucial role in the early Universe through their unique formation environment and metal-free composition.…
How do Massive Primordial Black Holes Impact the Formation of the First Stars and Galaxies?
Saiyang Zhang, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm +3
We investigate the impact of massive primordial black holes (PBHs; ) on the star formation and first galaxy assembly process using high-resolution hy…
The Emerging Black Hole Mass Function in the High-Redshift Universe
Junehyoung Jeon, Boyuan Liu, Anthony J. Taylor +5
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified an abundant population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) already in place during the first few hundred mil…
Magnetic fields limit the mass of Population III stars even before the onset of protostellar radiation feedback
Piyush Sharda, Shyam H. Menon, Roman Gerasimov +5
The masses of Population III stars are largely unconstrained since no simulations exist that take all relevant primordial star formation physics into account. We perform the first…
Signatures of Rapidly Rotating Stars with Chemically Homogeneous Evolution in the First Galaxies
Boyuan Liu, Yves Sibony, Georges Meynet +1
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed an unexpectedly high abundance of UV luminous galaxies at redshifts , challenging `standard' galaxy formation models…
Towards a universal analytical model for Population III star formation: interplay between feedback and fragmentation
Boyuan Liu, James Gurian, Kohei Inayoshi +4
JWST has brought us new insights into Cosmic Dawn with tentative detection of the unique signatures of metal-free Population III (Pop III) stars, such as strong HeII emission, extr…
Gravitational waves from mergers of Population III binary black holes: roles played by two evolution channels
Boyuan Liu, Tilman Hartwig, Nina S. Sartorio +6
The gravitational wave (GW) signal from binary black hole (BBH) mergers is a promising probe of Population III (Pop III) stars. To fully unleash the power of the GW probe, one impo…
Impact of Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter on Gas Properties at Very High Redshift: A Semi-Analytical Model
C. Casanueva-Villarreal, P. B. Tissera, N. Padilla +5
Context. Primordial black holes (PBHs) have been proposed as potential candidates for dark matter (DM) and have garnered significant attention in recent years. Aims. Our objective…
How do Primordial Black Holes change the Halo Mass Function and Structure?
Saiyang Zhang, Volker Bromm, Boyuan Liu
We examine the effects of massive primordial black holes (PBHs) on cosmic structure formation, employing both a semi-analytical approach and cosmological simulations. Our simulatio…
Reconstructing emission from pre-reionization sources with cosmic infrared background fluctuation measurements by the JWST
A. Kashlinsky, J. C. Mather, K. Helgason +3
We present new methodology to use cosmic infrared background (CIB) fluctuations to probe sources at 10<z<30 from a JWST/NIRCam configuration that will isolate known galaxies to 28…
Accretion onto Seed Black Holes in the First Galaxies
Milos Milosavljevic, Volker Bromm, Sean M. Couch +1
The validity of the hypothesis that the massive black holes in high redshift quasars grew from stellar-sized "seeds" is contingent on a seed's ability to double its mass every few…
The First Supernova Explosions: Energetics, Feedback, and Chemical Enrichment
Thomas H. Greif, Jarrett L. Johnson, Volker Bromm +1
We perform three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations in a realistic cosmological setting to investigate the expansion, feedback, and chemical enrichment propert…
The Formation of the First Stars. I. The Primordial Star Forming Cloud
Volker Bromm, Paolo S. Coppi, Richard B. Larson
To constrain the nature of the very first stars, we investigate the collapse and fragmentation of primordial, metal-free gas clouds. We explore the physics of primordial star forma…