Dec, 2005
Primordial molecular emission in population III galaxies
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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- Volume
- 57
- Number
- 6
- First page
- 951
- Last page
- 967
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1093/pasj/57.6.951
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS
We consider the formation of molecules in primordial prestellar clumps and evaluate the line luminosities to assess detectability by next-generation observational facilities. If the initial H-2 fraction is sufficiently high, HD becomes an important coolant in the clumps. The luminosity from such HD cooling clumps is lower than that from H-2 cooling ones because of the lower temperature (< 100K). As for Li reactions, we include the three-body LiH formation approximately. The Li molecular fraction remains very low (< 10(-3)) throughout the evolution, owing to the high dissociative reaction rate of LiH + H -> Li + H-2. LiH does not become an important coolant in any density range. The luminous emission lines from the prestellar cores include H-2 rovibrational lines [1-0 Q(1), 1-0 O(3), 1-0 0(5)] and pure rotational lines [0-0 S(3), 0-0 S(4), 0-0 S(5)]. The next-generation facilities SPICA and JWST are able to detect H-2 emission in a large pre-galactic cloud that forms metal-free stars at a high rate of similar to 10(3) M-circle dot yr(-1) at a redshift of z < 10. We also derive an analytical expression for the luminosity that reproduces the numerical results.
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- DOI : 10.1093/pasj/57.6.951
- ISSN : 0004-6264
- eISSN : 2053-051X
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000234607000009