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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On the Detection of Supermassive Primordial Stars. II. Blue Supergiants
Marco Surace, Erik Zackrisson, Daniel J. Whalen +4
Supermassive primordial stars in hot, atomically-cooling haloes at 15 - 20 may have given birth to the first quasars in the universe. Most simulations of these rapidly acc…
On the Detection of Supermassive Primordial Stars
Marco Surace, Daniel J. Whalen, Tilman Hartwig +6
The collapse of supermassive primordial stars in hot, atomically-cooled halos may have given birth to the first quasars at 15 - 20. Recent numerical simulations of these r…
Titans of the Early Universe: The Prato Statement on the Origin of the First Supermassive Black Holes
Tyrone E. Woods, Bhaskar Agarwal, Volker Bromm +30
In recent years, the discovery of massive quasars at z~7 has provided a striking challenge to our understanding of the origin and growth of supermassive black holes in the early Un…
Diffuse Gas in Retired Galaxies: Nebular Emission Templates and Constraints on the Sources of Ionization
Jonas Johansson, Tyrone E. Woods, Marat Gilfanov +3
We present emission line templates for passively evolving ("retired") galaxies, useful for investigation of the evolution of the ISM in these galaxies, and characterization of thei…
Diffuse Gas in Galaxies Sheds New Light on the Origin of Type Ia Supernovae
Jonas Johansson, Tyrone E. Woods, Marat Gilfanov +3
We measure the strength of HeII4686 nebular emission in passively evolving ("retired") galaxies, aiming to constrain their populations of hot accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in the…