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Observatory Science with eXTP
Ping Zhou, Jirong Mao, Liang Zhang +97
Scheduled for launch in 2030, the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarization (eXTP) telescope is a Chinese space-based mission aimed at studying extreme conditions and phenomena in ast…
Rotating Supermassive Pop III Stars On The Main Sequence
Devesh Nandal, Gaël Buldgen, Daniel J. Whalen +3
The detection of billion-solar-mass supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years of cosmic history challenges conventional theories of black hole formation and g…
Explaining the high nitrogen abundances observed in high-z galaxies via population III stars of a few thousand solar masses
Devesh Nandal, John A. Regan, Tyrone E. Woods +3
The chemical enrichment of the early Universe is a crucial element in the formation and evolution of galaxies, and Population III (PopIII) stars must play a vital role in this proc…
Probing the Diversity of Type Ia Supernova Light Curves in the Open Supernova Catalog
Chang Bi, Tyrone E. Woods, Sébastien Fabbro
The ever-growing sample of observed supernovae enhances our capacity for comprehensive supernova population studies, providing a richer dataset for understanding the diverse charac…
From Stellar Death to Cosmic Revelations: Zooming in on Compact Objects, Relativistic Outflows and Supernova Remnants with AXIS
S. Safi-Harb, K. B. Burdge, A. Bodaghee +32
Compact objects and supernova remnants provide nearby laboratories to probe the fate of stars after they die, and the way they impact, and are impacted by, their surrounding medium…
Critical accretion rates for rapidly growing massive Population III stars
Devesh Nandal, John A. Regan, Tyrone E. Woods +3
Efforts to understand the origin and growth of massive black holes observed in the early Universe have spurred a strong interest in the evolution and fate of rapidly-accreting prim…
The Evolution of Population III and Extremely Metal-Poor Binary Stars
Sung-Han Tsai, Ke-Jung Chen, Daniel Whalen +2
Numerical simulations have now shown that Population III (Pop III) stars can form in binaries and small clusters and that these stars can be in close proximity to each other. If so…
3D hydrodynamics simulations of core convection in supermassive main-sequence stars
Simon Blouin, Huaqing Mao, Tyrone E. Woods +3
Supermassive stars are Population III stars with masses exceeding that could be the progenitors of the first supermassive black holes. Their interiors are in a re…
Modeling Supermassive Primordial Stars with MESA
Nicholas P. Herrington, Daniel J. Whalen, Tyrone E. Woods
Supermassive stars forming at 15 - 20 are one of the leading contenders for the origin of the first quasars, over 200 of which have now been discovered at 6. These s…
Turbulent Cold Flows Gave Birth to the First Quasars
Muhammad A. Latif, Daniel J. Whalen, Sadegh Khochfar +2
How quasars powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang is still one of the outstanding problems in astrophysics 20 years after…
On the Formation and Interaction of Multiple Supermassive Stars in Cosmological Flows
Tyrone E. Woods, Samuel Patrick, Daniel J. Whalen +1
Supermassive primordial stars with masses exceeding that form in atomically cooled halos are the leading candidates for the origin of high-redshift quasars wi…
Some First Stars Were Red: Detecting Signatures of Massive Population III Formation Through Long-Term Stochastic Color Variations
Tyrone E. Woods, Chris J. Willott, John A. Regan +4
Identifying stars formed in pristine environments (Pop III) within the first billion years is vital to uncovering the earliest growth and chemical evolution of galaxies. Pop III ga…
Probing supermassive stars and massive black hole seeds through gravitational wave inspirals
Yael Raveh, Yonadav Barry Ginat, Hagai B. Perets +1
We propose a novel source of gravitational wave emission: the inspirals of compact fragments inside primordial supermassive stars (SMSs). Such systems are thought to be an essentia…
On the Evolution of Supermassive Primordial Stars in Cosmological Flows
Tyrone E. Woods, Samuel Patrick, Jacob S. Elford +2
Primordial supermassive stars (SMSs) formed in atomic-cooling halos at z ~ 15 - 20 are leading candidates for the seeds of the first quasars. Past numerical studies of the evolutio…
LIN 358: A symbiotic binary accreting above the steady hydrogen fusion limit
J. Kuuttila, M. Gilfanov, T. E. Woods +2
Symbiotic binaries are long period interacting binaries consisting of a white dwarf (WD) accreting material from a cool evolved giant star via stellar winds. In this paper we study…
Discovery of a ~30-Year-Duration Post-Nova Pulsating Supersoft Source in the Large Magellanic Cloud
G. Vasilopoulos, F. Koliopanos, T. E. Woods +3
Supersoft X-ray sources (SSS) have been identified as white dwarfs accreting from binary companions and undergoing nuclear-burning of the accreted material on their surface. Althou…
The Formation of Very Massive Stars in Early Galaxies and Implications for Intermediate Mass Black Holes
John A. Regan, John H. Wise, Tyrone E. Woods +3
We investigate the ab-initio formation of super-massive stars in a pristine atomic cooling halo. The halo is extracted from a larger self-consistent parent simulation. The halo rem…
Supersoft X-Ray Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Diego Farias, Alejandro Clocchiatti, Tyrone Woods +1
Supersoft X-rays sources (SSSs) have been proposed as potential Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitors. If such objects are indeed persistently X-ray luminous and embedded in suffic…
On Monolithic Supermassive Stars
Tyrone E. Woods, Alexander Heger, Lionel Haemmerlé
Supermassive stars have been proposed as the progenitors of the massive () quasars observed at . Prospects for directly detecting supermassive…
Milky Way Satellites Shining Bright in Gravitational Waves
Elinore Roebber, Riccardo Buscicchio, Alberto Vecchio +8
The population of Milky Way satellite galaxies is of great interest for cosmology, fundamental physics, and astrophysics. They represent the faint end of the galaxy luminosity func…
Luminous Red Novae: population models and future prospects
George Howitt, Simon Stevenson, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez +5
A class of optical transients known as Luminous Red Novae (LRNe) have recently been associated with mass ejections from binary stars undergoing common-envelope evolution. We use th…
Maximally accreting supermassive stars: a fundamental limit imposed by hydrostatic equilibrium
L. Haemmerlé, G. Meynet, L. Mayer +3
Major mergers of gas-rich galaxies provide promising conditions for the formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs; M) by direct collapse because they can t…
LRP2020: The cosmic origin and evolution of the elements
Rodrigo Fernández, Falk Herwig, Samar Safi-Harb +16
The origin of many elements of the periodic table remains an unsolved problem. While many nucleosynthetic channels are broadly understood, significant uncertainties remain regardin…
Revealing the Origin and Cosmic Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
T. E. Woods, R. M. Alexandroff, S. L. Ellison +14
The next generation of electromagnetic and gravitational wave observatories will open unprecedented windows to the birth of the first supermassive black holes. This has the potenti…