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Finding Direct-collapse Black Holes at Birth

  • Authors: Daniel J. Whalen, Marco Surace, Carla Bernhardt, Erik Zackrisson, Fabio Pacucci, Bodo Ziegler, and Michaela Hirschmann

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 897 L16.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Birth of a DCBH at z = 19. Left panel: rest-frame spectra for the DCBH at z = 19 before (blue) and after (red) reprocessing by its host halo. Right panel: ionized H fractions in the vicinity of the BH at z = 17. The image is 30 kpc proper on a side.

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