Forming a Primordial Star in a Relic HII Region

Details Forming a Primordial Star in a Relic HII Region Forming a Primordial Star in a Relic HII Region

2005-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503330v2

Astrophys.J. 628 (2005) L5-L8

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures. Some revisions, including enhanced discussion of angular momentum issues. Asrophysical Journal, accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/432683

There has been considerable theoretical debate over whether photoionization and supernova feedback from the first Population III stars facilitate or suppress the formation of the next generation of stars. We present results from an Eulerian adaptive mesh refinement simulation demonstrating the formation of a primordial star within a region ionized by an earlier nearby star. Despite the higher temperatures of the ionized gas and its flow out of the dark matter potential wells, this second star formed within 23 million years of its neighbor's death. The enhanced electron fraction within the HII region catalyzes rapid molecular hydrogen formation that leads to faster cooling in the subsequent star forming halos than in the first halos. This "second generation" primordial protostar has a much lower accretion rate because, unlike the first protostar, it forms in a rotationally supported disk of approx. 10-100 solar masses. This is primarily due to the much higher angular momentum of the halo in which the second star forms. In contrast to previously published scenarios, such configurations may allow binaries or multiple systems of lower mass stars to form. These first high resolution calculations offer insight into the impact of feedback upon subsequent populations of stars and clearly demonstrate how primordial chemistry promotes the formation of subsequent generations of stars even in the presence of the entropy injected by the first stars into the IGM.

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