Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 407, Issue 1, Pages L74-L78Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00908.x
Keywords
stars: Population III; dark ages, reionization, first stars; dark matter
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Funding
- Swedish National Space Board
- Swedish Research Council
- European Community [FP7/2007/2013, 235878]
- Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT Austin
- NSF TeraGrid [TG-AST0900005, TG-080028N]
- [NSF AST 0708176]
- [NASA NNX07AH09G]
- [SAO TM8-9009X]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1009799] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Some of the first stars could be cooler and more massive than standard stellar models would suggest, due to the effects of dark matter annihilation in their cores. It has recently been argued that such objects may attain masses in the 10(4)-10(7) M-circle dot range and that such supermassive dark stars should be within reach of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Notwithstanding theoretical difficulties with this proposal, we argue here that some of these objects should also be readily detectable with both the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based 8-10 m class telescopes. Existing survey data already place strong constraints on 10(7) M-circle dot dark stars at z approximate to 10. We show that such objects must be exceedingly rare or short lived to have avoided detection.
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