• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/810/1/51
Corpus ID: 51683228

Direct formation of supermassive black holes in metal-enriched gas at the heart of high-redshift galaxy mergers

@article{Mayer2014DirectFO,
  title={Direct formation of supermassive black holes in metal-enriched gas at the heart of high-redshift galaxy mergers},
  author={L. Mayer and D. Fiacconi and S. Bonoli and T. Quinn and R. Ro{\vs}kar and S. Shen and James Wadsley Ics and Z{\'u}rich and Cefca and Teruel and U. Washington and Eth and Ioa and Cambridge and McMaster and Hamilton},
  journal={arXiv: Astrophysics of Galaxies},
  year={2014}
}

L. Mayer, D. Fiacconi, +13 authors Hamilton

Published 2014

Physics

arXiv: Astrophysics of Galaxies

We present novel 3D multi-scale SPH simulations of gas-rich galaxy mergers between the most massive galaxies at $z \sim 8 - 10$, designed to scrutinize the direct collapse formation scenario for massive black hole seeds proposed in \citet{mayer+10}. The simulations achieve a resolution of 0.1 pc, and include both metallicity-dependent optically-thin cooling and a model for thermal balance at high optical depth. We consider different formulations of the SPH hydrodynamical equations, including… CONTINUE READING

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