Search Results - "Schneider, Raffaella"
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Transition of the initial mass function in the metal-poor environments
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2021)“…ABSTRACT We study star cluster formation in a low-metallicity environment using three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. Starting from a turbulent cloud…”
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Impact of the cosmic background radiation on the initial mass function of metal-poor stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (08-07-2022)“…ABSTRACT We study star cluster formation at low metallicities of Z/Z⊙ = 10−4–10−1 using three-dimensional hydrodynamics simulations. Particular emphasis is put…”
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From the first stars to the first black holes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-04-2016)“…The growth of the first supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at z > 6 is still a major challenge for theoretical models. If it starts from black hole (BH) remnants…”
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Dust formation and survival in supernova ejecta
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2007)“…The presence of dust at high redshift requires efficient condensation of grains in supernova (SN) ejecta, in accordance with current theoretical models. Yet…”
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The low-end of the black hole mass function at cosmic dawn
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (02-02-2022)“…ABSTRACT Understanding the formation and growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshift represents a major challenge for theoretical models. In…”
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The origin of the dust in high-redshift quasars: the case of SDSS J1148+5251
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2011)“…We present a semi-analytical model for the formation and evolution of a high-redshift quasar (QSO). We reconstruct a set of hierarchical merger histories of a…”
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Decoding the stellar fossils of the dusty Milky Way progenitors
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-12-2014)“…We investigate the metallicity distribution function (MDF) in the Galactic halo and the relative fraction of carbon-normal and carbon-rich stars. To this aim,…”
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The dust content of the most metal-poor star-forming galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2016)“…Although dust content is usually assumed to depend uniquely on metallicity, recent observations of two extremely metal-poor dwarf galaxies have suggested that…”
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The first low-mass stars: critical metallicity or dust-to-gas ratio?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2012)“…We explore the minimal conditions which enable the formation of metal-enriched solar and subsolar-mass stars. Using a one-zone semi-analytical model, we…”
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Light, medium-weight, or heavy? The nature of the first supermassive black hole seeds
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-09-2021)“…ABSTRACT Observations of hyper-luminous quasars at z>6 reveal the rapid growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs ${\gt}10^9 \,\rm M_{\odot }$) whose origin is…”
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Chasing the observational signatures of seed black holes at z > 7: candidate statistics
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2018)“…Abstract Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of 109–1010 M⊙ were already in place ∼13 Gyr ago, at z > 6. Super-Eddington growth of low-mass BH seeds (∼100 M⊙) or…”
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The dust mass in z > 6 normal star-forming galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (21-07-2015)“…We interpret recent ALMA observations of z > 6 normal star-forming galaxies by means of a seminumerical method, which couples the output of a cosmological…”
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Chasing the observational signatures of seed black holes at z > 7: candidate observability
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2018)“…Abstract Observing the light emitted by the first accreting black holes (BHs) would dramatically improve our understanding of the formation of quasars at…”
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On the Stellar Populations of Galaxies at z = 9–11: The Growth of Metals and Stellar Mass at Early Times
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2022)“…We present a detailed stellar population analysis of 11 bright (H < 26.6) galaxies at z=9−11 (three spectroscopically confirmed) to constrain the chemical…”
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A hint on the metal-free star formation rate density from 21-cm-EDGES data
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2020)“…ABSTRACT We aim to provide here the first data-constrained estimate of the metal-free (Population III; Pop III) star formation rate density $\dot{\rho…”
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Metals, dust and the cosmic microwave background: fragmentation of high-redshift star-forming clouds
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-02-2010)“…We investigate the effects of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation field on the collapse of pre-stellar clouds. Using a semi-analytic model to…”
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Super-critical accretion of medium-weight seed black holes in gaseous proto-galactic nuclei
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2023)“…ABSTRACT Accretion at sustained or episodic super-Eddington (SE) rates has been proposed as a pathway to grow efficiently light seeds produced by Pop-III…”
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The ALMA REBELS Survey: specific star formation rates in the reionization era
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (31-08-2022)“…ABSTRACT We present specific star formation rates (sSFRs) for 40 ultraviolet (UV)-bright galaxies at z ∼ 7–8 observed as part of the Reionization Era Bright…”
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The ALMA REBELS survey: the dust-obscured cosmic star formation rate density at redshift 7
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2023)“…ABSTRACT Cosmic dust is an essential component shaping both the evolution of galaxies and their observational signatures. How quickly dust builds up in the…”
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The formation and coalescence sites of the first gravitational wave events
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (11-10-2017)“…Abstract We present a novel theoretical model to characterize the formation and coalescence sites of compact binaries in a cosmological context. This is based…”
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