On the observability of individual Population III stars and their stellar-mass black hole accretion disks through cluster caustic transits
Abstract
We discuss if Pop III stars and accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes at z>7 may be directly observable to JWST and the next generation 25-39 meter ground-based telescopes through cluster caustic transits. About 3-30 of the best lensing clusters need to be monitored several times a years for several years to directly detect this.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1903.06527
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.06527
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c.449W
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 6 pages + references, 3 figures, science white paper submitted to the Astro2020 decadal survey. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1801.03584