期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 701, 期 2, 页码 L133-L137出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/L133
关键词
black hole physics; cosmology: theory; galaxies: formation
资金
- NASA AFTP [NNX08AH26G]
- National Science Foundation [AST-0239709]
The first stars, forming at redshifts z > 15 in minihalos with M similar to 10(5-6) M(circle dot) may leave behind remnant black holes, which could conceivably have been the seeds for the supermassive black holes observed at z less than or similar to 7. We study remnant black hole growth through accretion, including for the first time the radiation emitted due to accretion, with adaptive mesh refinement cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations. The effects of photoionization and heating dramatically affect the large-scale inflow, resulting in negligible mass growth. We compare cases with accretion luminosity included and neglected to show that accretion radiation drastically changes the environment within 100 pc of the black hole, increasing gas temperatures by an order of magnitude. Gas densities are reduced and further star formation in the same minihalo is prevented for the 200 million years we followed. Without radiative feedback included most seed black holes do not gain mass as efficiently as has been hoped for in previous theories, implying that black hole remnants of population III stars in minihalos are not likely to be miniquasars. Most importantly, however, our calculations demonstrate that if these black holes are indeed accreting close to the Bondi-Hoyle rate with 10% radiative efficiency they have a dramatic local effect in regulating star formation in the first galaxies. This suggests a novel mechanism for massive black hole formation-stellar-mass black holes may have suppressed fragmentation and star formation after falling into halos with virial temperatures similar to 10(4) K, facilitating massive black hole formation at their centers.
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