TY - JOUR
T1 - Titans of the Early Universe
T2 - The Prato Statement on the Origin of the First Supermassive Black Holes
AU - Woods, Tyrone E.
AU - Agarwal, Bhaskar
AU - Bromm, Volker
AU - Bunker, Andrew
AU - Chen, Ke-Jung
AU - Chon, Sunmyon
AU - Ferrara, Andrea
AU - Glover, Simon C. O.
AU - Haemmerle, Lionel
AU - Haiman, Zoltan
AU - Hartwig, Tilman
AU - Heger, Alexander
AU - Hirano, Shingo
AU - Hosokawa, Takashi
AU - Inayoshi, Kohei
AU - Klessen, Ralf S.
AU - Kobayashi, Chiaki
AU - Koliopanos, Filippos
AU - Latif, Muhammad A.
AU - Li, Yuexing
AU - Mayer, Lucio
AU - Mezcua, Mar
AU - Natarajan, Priyamvada
AU - Pacucci, Fabio
AU - Rees, Martin J.
AU - Regan, John A.
AU - Sakurai, Yuya
AU - Salvadori, Stefania
AU - Schneider, Raffaella
AU - Surace, Marco
AU - Tanaka, Takamitsu L.
AU - Whalen, Daniel J.
AU - Yoshida, Naoki
N1 - Solicited review article submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 35 pages, 15 figures, 1 table
PY - 2018/10/29
Y1 - 2018/10/29
N2 - In recent years, the discovery of massive quasars at z~7 has provided a striking challenge to our understanding of the origin and growth of supermassive black holes in the early Universe. Mounting observational and theoretical evidence points to massive seeds, formed by the collapse of supermassive stars, as being the most viable progenitor model for such early, massive accreting black holes. Although considerable progress has been made in our theoretical understanding, many questions remain regarding how (and how often) such objects may form, how they live and die, and how next generation observatories may yield new insight into the origin of these primordial titans. This review is a statement summarizing the discussions held at the Monash Prato Centre from November 20--24, 2017, during the workshop "Titans of the Early Universe: The Origin of the First Supermassive Black Holes."
AB - In recent years, the discovery of massive quasars at z~7 has provided a striking challenge to our understanding of the origin and growth of supermassive black holes in the early Universe. Mounting observational and theoretical evidence points to massive seeds, formed by the collapse of supermassive stars, as being the most viable progenitor model for such early, massive accreting black holes. Although considerable progress has been made in our theoretical understanding, many questions remain regarding how (and how often) such objects may form, how they live and die, and how next generation observatories may yield new insight into the origin of these primordial titans. This review is a statement summarizing the discussions held at the Monash Prato Centre from November 20--24, 2017, during the workshop "Titans of the Early Universe: The Origin of the First Supermassive Black Holes."
KW - astro-ph.GA
KW - astro-ph.HE
KW - astro-ph.SR
M3 - Article
SN - 1323-3580
JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
ER -