Constraint on the event rate of general relativistic instability supernovae from the early JWST deep field data
Abstract
General relativistic instability supernovae (GRSNe) at 10 ≲ z ≲ 15 are predicted to be observed as red faint point sources, and they can be detected only in the reddest filters in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRCam (F444W and F356W). They should be observed as persistent point sources with little flux variations for a couple of decades because of time dilation. We search for static point sources detected only in the F444W filter or only in the F444W and F356W filters in the early JWST deep field data. No real point source of such kind is identified. Therefore, the GRSN rate at 10 ≲ z ≲ 15 is constrained to be less than ~8 × 10-7 Mpc-3 yr-1 for the first time.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- December 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2309.12049
- Bibcode:
- 2023MNRAS.526.2400M
- Keywords:
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- stars: Population III;
- supernovae: general;
- dark ages;
- reionization;
- first stars;
- early Universe;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society