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astro-ph2003
Massive black hole remnants of the first stars III: observational signatures from the past
Ranty R. Islam, James E. Taylor, Joseph Silk
The first stars forming in minihaloes at redshifts greater than 20 may have been very massive and could have left behind massive black hole (MBH) remnants. In previous papers we in…
astro-ph2003
Massive black hole remnants of the first stars II: optical and X-ray signatures in present-day galactic haloes
Ranty R. Islam, James E. Taylor, Joseph Silk
The first stars forming in minihaloes at redshifts greater than 20 may have been very massive and could have left behind massive black hole (MBH) remnants. In a previous paper we i…
astro-ph2003
Massive black hole remnants of the first stars I: abundance in present-day galactic haloes
Ranty R. Islam, James E. Taylor, Joseph Silk
We investigate the possibility that present-day galaxies and their dark matter haloes contain a population of massive black holes (MBHs) that form by hierarchical merging of the bl…