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dc.contributor.author | Sethi, S.K. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Haiman, Zoltan | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pandey, Kanhaiya L. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-04-01T06:14:50Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-04-01T06:14:50Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010-08-31 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Astronomical Journal, 2010, Vol. 721, p615 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-637X | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1538-4357 (Online) | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3970 | - |
dc.description | Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations) | en |
dc.description.abstract | It has been proposed that primordial gas in early dark matter halos, with virial temperatures T vir gsim 104 K, can avoid fragmentation and undergo rapid collapse, possibly resulting in a supermassive black hole. This requires the gas to avoid cooling and to remain at temperatures near T ~ 104 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 midB mid gsim3.6 (comoving) nG, the collapsing gas is kept warm (T ~ 104 K) until it reaches the critical density n crit ≈ 103 cm-3 at which the rotovibrational states of H2 approach local thermodynamic equilibrium. H2 cooling then remains inefficient and the gas temperature stays near ~104 K, even as it continues to collapse at higher densities. The critical magnetic field strength required to permanently suppress H2 cooling is somewhat higher than the upper limit of ~2 nG from the cosmic microwave background. However, it can be realized in the rare gsim(2-3)σ regions of the spatially fluctuating B field; these regions contain a sufficient number of halos to account for z ≈ 6 quasar black holes. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | IOP Publishing Ltd. | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...721..615S | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2942 | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/721/1/615 | en |
dc.rights | 2010 IOP Publishing Limited | en |
dc.title | Supermassive black hole formation at high redshifts through a primordial magnetic field | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
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