Supermassive Black Hole Formation at High Redshifts Through a Primordial Magnetic Field

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2010-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/1005.2942v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

submitted to ApJ, 5 emulateapj pages and 5 figures

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It has been proposed that primordial gas in early dark matter halos, with virial temperatures above 10^4 K, can avoid fragmentation and undergo rapid collapse, possibly resulting in a supermassive black hole (SMBH). This requires the gas to avoid cooling and to remain at temperatures near T=10^4 K. We show that this condition can be satisfied in the presence of a sufficiently strong primordial magnetic field, which heats the collapsing gas via ambipolar diffusion. If the field has a strength above B = 3.6 (comoving) nG, the collapsing gas is kept warm (T=10^4K) until it reaches the critical density n_crit=10^3 cm^{-3} at which the roto-vibrational states of H_2 approach local thermodynamic equilibrium. H_2-cooling then remains inefficient, and the gas temperature stays near 10^4K, even as it continues to collapse to higher densities. The critical magnetic field strength required to permanently suppress H_2-cooling is somewhat higher than upper limit of approx. 2 nG from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, it can be realized in the rare (2-3)-sigma regions of the spatially fluctuating B-field; these regions contain a sufficient number of halos to account for the z=6 quasar BHs.

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