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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2019.14
Keywords
first stars - quasars; supermassive black holes; high-redshift - Population III; massive; binaries
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Funding
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics Center for the Evolution of the Elements (NSF Grant) [PHY-1430152]
- Monash University
- European Research Council (ERC) [339177]
- ARC [FT120100363]
- TDLI grant from the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [16DZ2260200]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11655002]
- STFC New Applicant Grant [ST/P000509/1]
- STFC [ST/M000958/1]
- EU Commission through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant-'SMARTSTARS'-grant [699941]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [200020-172505]
- Spanish Juan de la Cierva program [IJCI-2015-23944]
- NASA Chandra award [AR8-19021A]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFA0400702]
- National Science Foundation of China [11721303]
- NSF [1715661]
- NASA [NNX15AB19G, NNX17AL82G]
- SNS
- Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan [17H01102]
- Italian Ministry and Education (MIUR) through a Rita Levi Montalcini Fellowship
- JSPS KAKENHI [18J01296]
- MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI Grants [15H00776, 16H05996]
- National Science Foundation [PHY-1430152]
- European Research Council via the ERC Advanced Grant STARLIGHT: Formation of the First Stars [339177]
- STFC [ST/S000550/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [699941] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18J01296] Funding Source: KAKEN
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In recent years, the discovery of massive quasars at $z\sim7$ has provided a striking challenge to our understanding of the origin and growth of supermassive black holes in the early Universe. Mounting observational and theoretical evidence indicates the viability of massive seeds, formed by the collapse of supermassive stars, as a progenitor model for such early, massive accreting black holes. Although considerable progress has been made in our theoretical understanding, many questions remain regarding how (and how often) such objects may form, how they live and die, and how next generation observatories may yield new insight into the origin of these primordial titans. This review focusses on our present understanding of this remarkable formation scenario, based on the discussions held at the Monash Prato Centre from November 20 to 24, 2017, during the workshop 'Titans of the Early Universe: The Origin of the First Supermassive Black Holes'.
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