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The Supersonic Project: To cool or not to cool Supersonically Induced Gas Objects (SIGOs)?

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arxiv 2008.02808 v2 pith:V5PDFWJC submitted 2020-08-06 astro-ph.GA

The Supersonic Project: To cool or not to cool Supersonically Induced Gas Objects (SIGOs)?

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Supersonically Induced Gas Objects (SIGOs) primarily form in the early Universe, outside of dark matter halos due to the presence of a relative stream velocity between baryons and dark matter. These structures may be the progenitors of globular clusters. Since SIGOs are made out of pristine gas, we investigate the effect of atomic cooling on their properties. We run a suite of simulations by using the moving-mesh code {\sc arepo}, with and without baryon-dark matter relative velocity and with and without the effects of atomic cooling. We show that SIGO's density, temperature, and prolateness are determined by gravitational interactions rather than cooling. The cold gas fraction in SIGOs is much higher than that of dark matter halos. Specifically, we show that the SIGO's characteristic low temperature and extreme high gas density forges a nurturing ground for the earliest star formation sites.

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