{
  "id": "2302.09763",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2023-02-20T05:06:48.000Z",
  "updated": "2023-02-20T05:06:48.000Z",
  "title": "The most massive Population III stars",
  "authors": [
    "Teeraparb Chantavat",
    "Siri Chongchitnan",
    "Joseph Silk"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 4 figures",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.SR",
    "astro-ph.CO",
    "astro-ph.GA"
  ],
  "abstract": "Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that there are realistic prospects for detecting the earliest generation of stars at redshift ~20. These metal-poor, gaseous Population III stars are likely in the mass range $10-10^3 M_\\odot$. We develop a framework for calculating the abundances of Pop III stars as well as the distribution of the most massive Pop III stars based on an application of extreme-value statistics. Our calculations use the star formation rate density from a recent simulation to calibrate the star-formation efficiency from which the Pop III stellar abundances are derived. Our extreme-value modelling suggests that the most massive Pop III stars at redshifts 10<z<20 are likely to be of order $10^3-10^4 M_\\odot$. Extreme Pop III stars were sufficiently numerous to be the seeds of supermassive black holes at high redshifts and possibly source detectable gravitational waves.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2023-02-20T05:06:48.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "massive population",
      "star formation rate density",
      "james webb space telescope",
      "possibly source detectable gravitational waves",
      "star-formation efficiency"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}