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Detecting the First Supernovae in the Universe with JWST

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

Daniel J. Whalen
Daniel J. Whalen*
Affiliation:
McWilliams Fellow, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 email: dwhalen@lanl.gov Theoretical Division (T-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
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Abstract

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Massive Population III stars die as pair-instability supernovae (PI SNe), the most energetic thermonuclear explosions in the universe with energies up to 100 times those of Type Ia or Type II SNe. Their extreme luminosities may allow them to be observed from the earliest epochs, revealing the nature of Pop III stars and the primitive galaxies in which they reside. We present numerical simulations of Pop III PI SNe done with the radiation hydrodynamics code RAGE and calculations of their light curves and spectra performed with the SPECTRUM code. We find that 150 - 250 M⊙ PI SNe will be visible to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) out to z ~ 30 and to z ~ 15 - 20 in all-sky NIR surveys by the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).

Keywords

early universe – stars:early type – galaxies:high-redshift – supernovae:general – methods:numerical
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S279: Death of Massive Stars: Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts , April 2011 , pp. 269 - 273
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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