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2019MNRAS.486.5917K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 486, 5917-5923 (2019/July-2)

Effect of interstellar objects on metallicity of low-mass first stars formed in a cosmological model.

KIRIHARA T., TANIKAWA A. and ISHIYAMA T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We investigate metal pollution on to the surface of low-mass population III stars (Pop. III survivors) via interstellar objects (ISOs) floating in the Galactic interstellar medium. Only recently, Tanikawa et al. analytically estimated how much metal should collide to an orbiting Pop. III survivor encouraged by the recent discovery of 'Oumuamua and suggested that ISOs are the most dominant contributor of metal enrichment of Pop. III survivors. When we consider a distribution of ISOs in the Galactic disc, Pop. III survivors' orbits are significant properties to estimate the accretion rate of them though Tanikawa et al. assumed one modelled orbit. To take more realistic orbits into calculating the accretion rate, we use a high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation that resolves dark matter minihaloes. Pop. III survivors located at solar neighbourhood have a number of chances of ISO (>100 m) collisions, typically 5 x 106 times in the last 5 Gyr, which is one order of magnitude greater than estimated in the previous study. When we assume a power-law parameter α of the ISO cumulative number density with size greater than D as n ∝ D–α, 0.80 M_☉stars should be typically polluted [Fe/H] ∼ -2 for the case of α = 2.0. Even in the cases of 0.70 and 0.75 M_☉stars, the typical surface metallicity are around [Fe/H] = -6 ∼ -5. From the presence of stars with their [Fe/H], we can constrain on the lower limit of the power α, as α >= 2.0, which is consistent with α of km-size asteroids and comets in the Solar system. Furthermore, we provide six candidates as the ISO-polluted Pop. III stars in the case of α ∼ 2.5. Metal-poor stars so far discovered are possible to be metal-free Pop. III stars on birth.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): minor planets, asteroids: general - stars: low-mass - stars: Population III

Simbad objects: 12

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