Pair-instability supernovae via collision runaway in young dense star clusters: PISNe via collision runaway

Pan, Tony; Loeb, Abraham; Kasen, Daniel

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21030.x

Title: Pair-instability supernovae via collision runaway in young dense star clusters: PISNe via collision runaway

Journal Article · Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2012 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21030.x· OSTI ID:1564900

Pan, Tony ^[1]; Loeb, Abraham ^[1]; Kasen, Daniel ^[2]

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Stars with helium cores between ~64 and 133 M_⊙ are theoretically predicted to die as pair-instability supernovae. This requires very massive progenitors, which are theoretically prohibited for Pop II/I stars within the Galactic stellar mass limit due to mass-loss via line-driven winds. However, the runaway collision of stars in a dense, young star cluster could create a merged star with sufficient mass to end its life as a pair-instability supernova, even with enhanced mass-loss at non-zero metallicity. We show that the predicted rate from this mechanism is consistent with the inferred volumetric rate of roughly ~2 × 10^-9 Mpc^-3 yr^-1 of the two observed pair-instability supernovae, SN 2007bi and PTF 10nmn, neither of which has metal-free host galaxies. Contrary to prior literature, only pair-instability supernovae at low redshifts $z < 2$ will be observable with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. We estimate that the telescope will observe ~10² such events per year that originate from the collisional runaway mergers in clusters.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; FC02-06ER41438

OSTI ID:: 1564900

Journal Information:: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 423, Issue 3; ISSN 0035-8711

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