New constraints on direct collapse black hole formation in the early Universe

Supermassive black hole formation at high redshifts via direct collapse in a cosmological context

(2015) Jun-Hwan Choi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Simulating the formation of massive seed black holes in the early Universe – II. Impact of rate coefficient uncertainties

(2015) Simon C. O. Glover   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Simulating the formation of massive seed black holes in the early Universe – I. An improved chemical model

(2015) Simon C. O. Glover   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The first Population II stars formed in externally enriched mini-haloes

(2015) Britton D. Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30

(2015) Xue-Bing Wu et al.   NATURE

ENZO: AN ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT CODE FOR ASTROPHYSICS

(2014) Greg L. Bryan et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

Feedback-regulated supermassive black hole seed formation

(2014) Mark Dijkstra et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

How realistic UV spectra and X-rays suppress the abundance of direct collapse black holes

(2014) M. A. Latif et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Revised rate coefficients for H2 and H− destruction by realistic stellar spectra

(2014) Bhaskar Agarwal et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The critical radiation intensity for direct collapse black hole formation: dependence on the radiation spectral shape

(2014) Kazuyuki Sugimura et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A UV flux constraint on the formation of direct collapse black holes

(2014) M. A. Latif et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The First Billion Years project: birthplaces of direct collapse black holes

(2014) Bhaskar Agarwal et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Rapid growth of seed black holes in the early universe by supra-exponential accretion

(2014) T. Alexander et al.   SCIENCE

THE AGORA HIGH-RESOLUTION GALAXY SIMULATIONS COMPARISON PROJECT

(2013) Ji-hoon Kim et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

The characteristic black hole mass resulting from direct collapse in the early Universe

(2013) M. A. Latif et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Ubiquitous seeding of supermassive black holes by direct collapse

(2012) Bhaskar Agarwal et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The first stars: mass growth under protostellar feedback

(2012) Athena Stacy et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GRAVITATIONAL FRAGMENTATION IN TURBULENT PRIMORDIAL GAS AND THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTION OF POPULATION III STARS

(2011) Paul C. Clark et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Photodissociation of H2 in protogalaxies: modelling self-shielding in three-dimensional simulations

(2011) J. Wolcott-Green et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A luminous quasar at a redshift of z = 7.085

(2011) Daniel J. Mortlock et al.   NATURE

Formation of supermassive black holes

(2010) Marta Volonteri   ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW

Experimental Results for H2 Formation from H- and H and Implications for First Star Formation

(2010) H. Kreckel et al.   SCIENCE

ACCRETION ONTO THE FIRST STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES

(2009) Marcelo A. Alvarez et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Pathways to massive black holes and compact star clusters in pre-galactic dark matter haloes with virial temperatures ≳10 000 K

(2009) John A. Regan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Supermassive black hole formation by direct collapse: keeping protogalactic gas H2free in dark matter haloes with virial temperaturesTvir>rsim 104K

(2009) Cien Shang et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Lower Metal Enrichment of Virialized Gas in Minihalos

(2008) Renyue Cen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Fluctuations in the high-redshift Lyman-Werner background: close halo pairs as the origin of supermassive black holes

(2008) Mark Dijkstra et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY