Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012aas...21924412w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #244.12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present a suite of adaptive mesh refinement radiation hydrodynamics simulations that follows the transition from Population III to II star formation. We model stellar radiative feedback with adaptive ray tracing, including the momentum coupling to the gas. A top-heavy initial mass function for the Population III stars is considered, resulting in a plausible distribution of pair-instability supernovae and associated metal enrichment. We find that the gas fraction recovers from 5 percent to nearly the cosmic fraction in halos with merger histories rich in halos above 107 \Ms. A single pair-instability supernova is sufficient to enrich the host halo to a metallicity floor of 10-3 Z&sun; and to transition to Population II star formation. This provides a natural explanation for the observed floor on damped Lyman alpha (DLA) systems metallicities reported in the literature, which is of this order. We find that stellar metallicities do not necessarily trace stellar ages, as mergers of halos with established stellar populations can create superpositions of t-Z evolutionary tracks. A bimodal metallicity distribution is created after a starburst occurs when the halo can cool efficiently through atomic line cooling. We find that radiation pressure plays a key role in self-regulating star formation and preventing the overproduction of stars in early dwarf galaxies.
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