Radiative feedback from an early X-ray background

被引:95
作者
Glover, SCO
Brand, PWJL
机构
[1] Univ Edinburgh, Royal Observ, Inst Astron, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, Midlothian, Scotland
[2] Amer Museum Nat Hist, Dept Astrophys, New York, NY 10024 USA
关键词
molecular processes; radiative transfer; galaxies : formation; cosmology : theory;
D O I
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06311.x
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The first generation of stars (commonly known as population III) are expected to form in low-mass protogalaxies in which molecular hydrogen is the dominant coolant. Radiation from these stars will rapidly build up an extragalactic ultraviolet (UV) background capable of photodissociating H-2, and it is widely believed that this background will suppress further star formation in low-mass systems. However, star formation will also produce an extragalactic X-ray background. This X-ray background, by increasing the fractional ionization of protogalactic gas, promotes H-2 formation and reduces the effectiveness of ultraviolet feedback. In this paper, we examine which of these backgrounds has the dominant effect. Using a simple model for the growth of the UV and X-ray backgrounds, together with a detailed one-dimensional model of protogalactic chemical evolution, we examine the effects of the X-ray backgrounds produced by a number of likely source models. We show that in several cases, the resulting X-ray background is strong enough to offset UV photodissociation in large H-2 -cooled protogalaxies. On the other hand, small protogalaxies (those with virial temperatures T (vir) < 2000 K) remain dominated by the UV background in all of the models we examine. We also briefly investigate the effects of the X-ray background upon the thermal and chemical evolution of the diffuse intergalactic medium.
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