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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 454, Issue 4, Pages 4250-4266Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2267
Keywords
stars: low-mass; supernovae: general; ISM: clouds; Galaxy: halo; galaxies: evolution
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Funding
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP)/ERC [306476]
- PRIN MIUR, project 'The Chemical and dynamical Evolution of the Milky Way and Local Group Galaxies' [prot. 2010LY5N2T]
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We quantify the role of Population (Pop) III core-collapse supernovae (SNe) as the first cosmic dust polluters. Starting from a homogeneous set of stellar progenitors with masses in the range [13-80] M-circle dot, we find that the mass and composition of newly formed dust depend on the mixing efficiency of the ejecta and the degree of fallback experienced during the explosion. For standard Pop III SNe, whose explosions are calibrated to reproduce the average elemental abundances of Galactic halo stars with [Fe/H] < -2.5, between 0.18 and 3.1 M-circle dot (0.39-1.76 M-circle dot) of dust can form in uniformly mixed (unmixed) ejecta, and the dominant grain species are silicates. We also investigate dust formation in the ejecta of faint Pop III SN, where the ejecta experience a strong fallback. By examining a set of models, tailored to minimize the scatter with the abundances of carbon-enhanced Galactic halo stars with [Fe/H] < -4, we find that amorphous carbon is the only grain species that forms, with masses in the range 2.7 x 10(-3) -0.27 M-circle dot (7.5 x 10(-4)-0.11 M-circle dot) for uniformly mixed (unmixed) ejecta models. Finally, for all the models we estimate the amount and composition of dust that survives the passage of the reverse shock, and find that, depending on circumstellar medium densities, between 3 and 50 per cent (10-80 per cent) of dust produced by standard (faint) Pop III SNe can contribute to early dust enrichment.
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