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most citedTitans of the Early Universe: The Prato Statement on the Origin of the First Supermassive Black Holes

193 citations · 1.7k across the 44 of their papers we have counts for

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44 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

A-SLOTH reveals the nature of the first stars

Tilman Hartwig, Veronika Lipatova, Simon C. O. Glover +1

The first generation of stars (PopIII) are too dim to be observed directly and probably too short-lived to have survived for local observations. Hence, we rely on simulations and i…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

The imprint of the first stars on the faint end of the white dwarf luminosity function

Bartosz Dzięcioł, Tilman Hartwig, Naoki Yoshida

Population III stars are characterized by extremely low metallicities as they are thought to be formed from a pristine gas in the early Universe. Although the existence of Populati…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 18 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2023

The Galaxy Assembly and Interaction Neural Networks (GAINN) for high-redshift JWST observations

Lillian Santos-Olmsted, Kirk Barrow, Tilman Hartwig

We present the Galaxy Assembly and Interaction Neural Networks (GAINN), a series of artificial neural networks for predicting the redshift, stellar mass, halo mass, and mass-weight…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 24 cited

Population III X-ray Binaries and their Impact on the Early Universe

Nina S. Sartorio, A. Fialkov, T. Hartwig +8

The first population of X-ray binaries (XRBs) is expected to affect the thermal and ionization states of the gas in the early Universe. Although these X-ray sources are predicted t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 45 cited

Binary black hole mergers from Population III stars: uncertainties from star formation and binary star properties

Filippo Santoliquido, Michela Mapelli, Giuliano Iorio +5

Population III (Pop. III) binary stars likely produced the first stellar-born binary black hole (BBH) mergers in the Universe. Here, we quantify the main sources of uncertainty for…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 26 cited

Machine learning detects multiplicity of the first stars in stellar archaeology data

Tilman Hartwig, Miho N. Ishigaki, Chiaki Kobayashi +2

In unveiling the nature of the first stars, the main astronomical clue is the elemental compositions of the second generation of stars, observed as extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

First estimate of the local value of the baryonic streaming velocity

Betul Uysal, Tilman Hartwig

Several studies have shown the influence of the relative streaming velocity (SV) between baryons and dark matter on the formation of structures. For the first time, we constrain th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 2 cited

A machine learning approach to assessing the presence of substructure in quasar host galaxies using the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program

Chris Nagele, John D. Silverman, Tilman Hartwig +4

The conditions under which galactic nuclear regions become active are largely unknown, although it has been hypothesized that secular processes related to galaxy morphology could p…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 16 cited

A-SLOTH: Ancient Stars and Local Observables by Tracing Halos

Mattis Magg, Tilman Hartwig, Li-Hsin Chen +1

Galaxies are thought to reside inside of large gravitationally bound structures of dark matter, so-called haloes. While the smallest of these haloes host no or only a few stars, th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 30 cited

Unveiling the contribution of Pop III stars in primeval galaxies at redshift

Shafqat Riaz, Tilman Hartwig, Muhammad A. Latif

Detection of the first stars has remained elusive so-far but their presence may soon be unveiled by upcoming JWST observations. Previous studies have not investigated the entire po…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

Comparing simulated Milky Way satellite galaxies with observations using unsupervised clustering

Li-Hsin Chen, Tilman Hartwig, Ralf S. Klessen +1

We develop a new analysis method that allows us to compare multi-dimensional observables to a theoretical model. The method is based on unsupervised clustering algorithms which ass…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 29 cited

Fast optical flares from M dwarfs detected by a one-second-cadence survey with Tomo-e Gozen

Masataka Aizawa, Kojiro Kawana, Kazumi Kashiyama +18

We report a one-second-cadence wide-field survey for M-dwarf flares using the Tomo-e Gozen camera mounted on the Kiso Schmidt telescope. We detect 22 flares from M3-M5 dwarfs with…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 61 cited

Public Release of A-SLOTH: Ancient Stars and Local Observables by Tracing Halos

Tilman Hartwig, Mattis Magg, Li-Hsin Chen +8

The semi-analytical model A-SLOTH (Ancient Stars and Local Observables by Tracing Halos) is the first public code that connects the formation of the first stars and galaxies to obs…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Tracing stars in Milky Way satellites with A-SLOTH

Li-Hsin Chen, Mattis Magg, Tilman Hartwig +3

We study the stellar mass-to-halo mass relation at in 30 Milky Way-like systems down to the ultra-faint () regime using the semi-analytic model A-SLOTH. A…

astro-ph.CO2021

Effect of the cosmological transition to metal-enriched star-formation on the hydrogen 21-cm signal

Mattis Magg, Itamar Reis, Anastasia Fialkov +6

Mapping Cosmic Dawn with 21-cm tomography offers an exciting new window into the era of primordial star formation. However, self-consistent implementation of both the process of st…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

Gravitational waves from the remnants of the first stars in nuclear star clusters

Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm

We study Population III (Pop III) binary remnant mergers in nuclear star clusters (NSCs) with a semi-analytical approach for early structure formation. Within this framework, we ke…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Origin of metals in old Milky Way halo stars based on GALAH and Gaia

Miho N. Ishigaki, Tilman Hartwig, Yuta Tarumi +6

Stellar and supernova nucleosynthesis in the first few billion years of the cosmic history have set the scene for early structure formation in the Universe, while little is known a…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Optical Spectroscopy of Dual Quasar Candidates from the Subaru HSC-SSP program

Shenli Tang, John D. Silverman, Xuheng Ding +30

We report on a spectroscopic program to search for dual quasars using Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) images of SDSS quasars which represent an important stage during galaxy mergers…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 21 cited

Metal-Poor Stars Observed with the Southern African Large Telescope

Kaitlin C. Rasmussen, Joseph Zepeda, Timothy C. Beers +5

We present the first release of a large-scale study of relatively bright (V < 13.5) metal-poor stars observed with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), based on high-resolu…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 58 cited

Dual supermassive black holes at close separation revealed by the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program

John D. Silverman, Shenli Tang, Khee-Gan Lee +30

The unique combination of superb spatial resolution, wide-area coverage, and deep depth of the optical imaging from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program is utilized…

cs.LG2020★ 57 cited

Neural Networks Fail to Learn Periodic Functions and How to Fix It

Liu Ziyin, Tilman Hartwig, Masahito Ueda

Previous literature offers limited clues on how to learn a periodic function using modern neural networks. We start with a study of the extrapolation properties of neural networks;…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 32 cited

Implications of inhomogeneous metal mixing for stellar archaeology

Yuta Tarumi, Tilman Hartwig, Mattis Magg

The first supernovae enrich the previously pristine gas with metals, out of which the next generation of stars form. Based on hydrodynamical simulations, we develop a new stochasti…