Abstract
The recent discovery of a 4 × 107 M⊙ black hole (BH) in UHZ1 at z = 10.3, just 450 Myr after the big bang, suggests that the seeds of the first quasars may have been direct-collapse black holes (DCBHs) from the collapse of supermassive primordial stars at z ∼ 20. This object was identified in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRcam and Chandra X-ray data, but recent studies suggest that radio emission from such a BH should also be visible to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) and the next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). Here, we present estimates of radio flux densities for UHZ1 from 0.1 - 10 GHz, and find that SKA and ngVLA could detect it with integration times of 10 - 100 hr and just 1 - 10 hr, respectively. It may be possible to see this object with VLA now with longer integration times. The detection of radio emission from UHZ1 would be a first test of exciting new synergies between near infrared (NIR) and radio observatories that could open the era of z∼ 5 - 15 quasar astronomy in the coming decade.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 133 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | The Astrophysical Journal |
Volume | 956 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 17 Oct 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Oct 2023 |
Keywords
- quasars: supermassive black holes
- black hole physics
- early universe
- dark ages, reionization, first stars
- galaxies: formation
- galaxies: high-redshift