Formation of primordial supermassive stars by burst accretion
Formation of primordial supermassive stars by burst accretion
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DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stv1346
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发表时间:
2015-05
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Y. Sakurai;T. Hosokawa;N. Yoshida;H. Yorke
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作者:
Y. Sakurai;T. Hosokawa;N. Yoshida;H. Yorke
Recent observations show that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with 10 9 M exist at redshift z & 6; how they form has yet to be explained. A promising formation channel is the so-called direct collapse model, which posits that a massive seed BH forms through gravitational collapse of a 10 5 M supermassive star. We study the evolution of such a supermassive star growing by rapid mass accretion. The internal stellar structure is also followed consistently in our calculation. In particular, we examine the impact of time-dependent mass accretion of repeating burst and quiescent phases that are expected to occur with a self-gravitating circumstellar disk. We show that the stellar evolution with such episodic accretion diers qualitatively from that expected with a constant accretion rate, even if the mean accretion rate is the same. Unlike the case of constant mass accretion, whereby the star expands roughly following R ’ 2:6 10 3 R (M =100 M ) 1=2 , the protostar can substantially contract during the quiescent phases between accretion bursts. The stellar eective temperature and ionizing photon emissivity increase accordingly as the star contracts, which can cause strong ionizing feedback and halt the mass accretion onto the star. With a xed duration of the quiescent phase tq, such contraction occurs in early evolutionary phases, i.e. for M . 10 3 M with tq’ 10 3 yr. For later epochs and larger masses but the same tq, contraction is negligible even during quiescent phases. With larger quiescent times tq, however, the star continues to contract during quiescent phases even for the higher stellar masses. We show that such behavior is well understood by comparing the interval time and the thermal relaxation time for a bloated surface layer. We conclude that the UV radiative feedback becomes eective