The first supernovae will soon be visible at the edge of the observable
universe, revealing the birthplaces of Population III stars. With upcoming
near-infrared missions, a broad analysis of the detectability of Population III
supernovae is paramount. We combine cosmological and radiation transport
simulations, instrument specifications, and survey strategies to create
synthetic observations of primeval core-collapse, Type IIn and pair-instability
supernovae with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We show that a dedicated
observational campaign with the JWST can detect up to $15$
pair-instability explosions, $300$ core-collapse supernovae, but less than
one Type IIn explosion per year, depending on the Population III star formation
history. Our synthetic survey also shows that $10^2$ supernova detections,
properly classified, are sufficient to discriminate between a Salpeter and flat
mass distribution for primordial stars with a confidence level greater than
99.5 per cent.
Description
[1401.2995] Probing the Pop III initial mass function with primordial supernovae
%0 Generic
%1 desouza2014probing
%A de Souza, R. S.
%A Ishida, E. E. O.
%A Whalen, D. J.
%A Johnson, J.
%A Ferrara, A.
%D 2014
%K detection imf popIII
%T Probing the Pop III initial mass function with primordial supernovae
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2995
%X The first supernovae will soon be visible at the edge of the observable
universe, revealing the birthplaces of Population III stars. With upcoming
near-infrared missions, a broad analysis of the detectability of Population III
supernovae is paramount. We combine cosmological and radiation transport
simulations, instrument specifications, and survey strategies to create
synthetic observations of primeval core-collapse, Type IIn and pair-instability
supernovae with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We show that a dedicated
observational campaign with the JWST can detect up to $15$
pair-instability explosions, $300$ core-collapse supernovae, but less than
one Type IIn explosion per year, depending on the Population III star formation
history. Our synthetic survey also shows that $10^2$ supernova detections,
properly classified, are sufficient to discriminate between a Salpeter and flat
mass distribution for primordial stars with a confidence level greater than
99.5 per cent.
@misc{desouza2014probing,
abstract = {The first supernovae will soon be visible at the edge of the observable
universe, revealing the birthplaces of Population III stars. With upcoming
near-infrared missions, a broad analysis of the detectability of Population III
supernovae is paramount. We combine cosmological and radiation transport
simulations, instrument specifications, and survey strategies to create
synthetic observations of primeval core-collapse, Type IIn and pair-instability
supernovae with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We show that a dedicated
observational campaign with the JWST can detect up to $\sim 15$
pair-instability explosions, $\sim 300$ core-collapse supernovae, but less than
one Type IIn explosion per year, depending on the Population III star formation
history. Our synthetic survey also shows that $\sim 10^2$ supernova detections,
properly classified, are sufficient to discriminate between a Salpeter and flat
mass distribution for primordial stars with a confidence level greater than
99.5 per cent.},
added-at = {2014-01-15T10:01:20.000+0100},
author = {de Souza, R. S. and Ishida, E. E. O. and Whalen, D. J. and Johnson, J. and Ferrara, A.},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25f802e5cf416510823478ac39e3d708d/miki},
description = {[1401.2995] Probing the Pop III initial mass function with primordial supernovae},
interhash = {4041fe6e7d4a68a44293ef557cd26e4f},
intrahash = {5f802e5cf416510823478ac39e3d708d},
keywords = {detection imf popIII},
note = {cite arxiv:1401.2995Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures. Comments are welcome},
timestamp = {2014-01-15T10:01:20.000+0100},
title = {Probing the Pop III initial mass function with primordial supernovae},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2995},
year = 2014
}