Dark stars: a new study of the first stars in the Universe
dc.contributor.author | Freese, Katherine | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-23T15:25:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-03-23T15:25:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Freese, Katherine (2009). "Dark stars: a new study of the first stars in the Universe." New Journal of Physics 11(10): 105014. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65098> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1367-2630 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65098 | |
dc.description.abstract | We have proposed that the first phase of stellar evolution in the history of the Universe may be dark stars (DSs), powered by dark matter (DM) heating rather than by nuclear fusion. Weakly interacting massive particles, which may be their own antipartners, collect inside the first stars and annihilate to produce a heat source that can power the stars. A new stellar phase results, a DS, powered by DM annihilation as long as there is DM fuel, with lifetimes from millions to billions of years. We find that the first stars are very bright (~10 6 L ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/icons/Entities/odot.gif] {odot} ) and cool ( T surf <10 000 K) during the DS phase, and grow to be very massive (500 1000 times as massive as the Sun). These results differ markedly from the standard picture in the absence of DM heating, in which the maximum mass is smaller and the temperatures are much hotter ( T surf > 50 000 K); hence DS should be observationally distinct from standard Pop III stars. Once the DM fuel is exhausted, the DS becomes a heavy main sequence star; these stars eventually collapse to form massive black holes that may provide seeds for supermassive black holes observed at early times as well as explanations for recent ARCADE data and for intermediate black holes. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | en_US |
dc.title | Dark stars: a new study of the first stars in the Universe | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/65098/2/njp9_10_105014.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | New Journal of Physics | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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