Radiation Hydrodynamical Evolution of Primordial H II Regions

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2003-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310283v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 8 figures, in emulateapj5 format, revised version submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/421548

We simulate the ionization environment of z ~ 20 luminous objects formed within the framework of the current CDM cosmology and compute their UV escape fraction. These objects are likely single very massive stars that are copious UV emitters. We present analytical estimates as well as one--dimensional radiation hydrodynamical calculations of the evolution of these first HII regions in the universe. The initially D--type ionization front evolves to become R--type within $\lesssim 10^5$ yrs at a distance $\sim1$ pc. This ionization front then completely overruns the halo, accelerating an expanding shell of gas outward to velocities in excess of 30 km s$^{-1}$, about ten times the escape velocity of the confining dark matter halo. We find that the evolution of the HII region depends only weakly on the assumed stellar ionizing luminosities. Consequently, most of the gas surrounding the first stars will leave the dark halo whether or not the stars produce supernovae. If they form the first massive seed black holes these are unlikely to accrete within a Hubble time after they formed until they are incorporated into larger dark matter halos that contain more gas. Because these I--fronts exit the halo on timescales much shorter than the stars' main sequence lifetimes their host halos have UV escape fractions of $\gtrsim 0.95$, fixing an important parameter for theoretical studies of cosmological hydrogen reionization.

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