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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 525, Issue 4, Pages 5479-5491Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2699
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galaxies: high-redshift; dark ages, reionization, first stars; cosmology: theory
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Supersonic relative motion affects the growth of small-scale structures. The inclusion of relative velocities in zoom simulations reduces the halo baryon fraction and delays the formation of star particles. It also suppresses the final stellar mass.
Supersonic relative motion between baryons and dark matter due to the decoupling of baryons from the primordial plasma after recombination affects the growth of the first small-scale structures. Large box sizes (greater than a few hundred Mpc) are required to sample the full range of scales pertinent to the relative velocity, while the effect of the relative velocity is strongest on small scales (less than a few hundred kpc). This separation of scales naturally lends itself to the use of 'zoom' simulations, and here we present our methodology to self-consistently incorporate the relative velocity in zoom simulations, including its cumulative effect from recombination through to the start time of the simulation. We apply our methodology to a large-scale cosmological zoom simulation, finding that the inclusion of relative velocities suppresses the halo baryon fraction by 46-23 per cent between z = 13.6 and 11.2, in qualitative agreement with previous works. In addition, we find that including the relative velocity delays the formation of star particles by similar to 20 Myr on average (of the order of the lifetime of a similar to 9 M-circle dot Population III star) and suppresses the final stellar mass by as much as 79 per cent at z = 11.2.
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