On the Formation and Interaction of Multiple Supermassive Stars in Cosmological Flows

Supermassive primordial stars with masses exceeding ∼10 ^5 M _⊙ that form in atomically cooled halos are the leading candidates for the origin of high-redshift quasars at z > 6. Recent numerical simulations, however, find that multiple accretion disks can form within a halo, each of which can pot...

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Main Authors: Tyrone E. Woods, Samuel Patrick, Daniel J. Whalen, Alexander Heger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad054a