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Population III Hypernovae
Joseph Smidt, Daniel J. Whalen, Wesley Even +3
Population III supernovae have been of growing interest of late for their potential to directly probe the properties of the first stars, particularly the most energetic events that…
Finding the First Cosmic Explosions. III. Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae
Daniel J. Whalen, Joseph Smidt, Wesley Even +4
Population III supernovae have been the focus of growing attention because of their potential to directly probe the properties of the first stars, particularly the most energetic e…
The Biggest Explosions in the Universe. II
Daniel J. Whalen, Jarrett L. Johnson, Joseph Smidt +3
One of the leading contenders for the origin of supermassive black holes at 7 is catastrophic baryon collapse in atomically-cooled halos at 15. In this scenari…
The Supernova that Destroyed a Protogalaxy: Prompt Chemical Enrichment and Supermassive Black Hole Growth
Daniel J. Whalen, Jarrett J. Johnson, Joseph Smidt +4
The first primitive galaxies formed from accretion and mergers by z ~ 15, and were primarily responsible for cosmological reionization and the chemical enrichment of the early cosm…
The Biggest Explosions in the Universe
Jarrett L. Johnson, Daniel J. Whalen, Wesley Even +4
Supermassive primordial stars are expected to form in a small fraction of massive protogalaxies in the early universe, and are generally conceived of as the progenitors of the seed…
Illuminating the Primeval Universe with Type IIn Supernovae
Daniel J. Whalen, Wesley Even, C. C. Lovekin +7
The detection of Pop III supernovae could directly probe the primordial IMF for the first time, unveiling the properties of the first galaxies, early chemical enrichment and reioni…