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Protostar formation in the early universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

Naoki Yoshida
Naoki Yoshida*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nagoya University Furocho, Chikusa Nagoya 464-8602, Japan email: nyoshida@a.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

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We study the formation of primordial proto-stars in a ΛCDM universe using ultra high-resolution cosmological simulations. Our approach includes all the relevant atomic and molecular physics to follow the thermal evolution of a prestellar gas cloud to “stellar” densities. We describe the numerical implementation of the physics. We also show the result of a simulation of the formation of primordial stars in a reionized gas.

Keywords

cosmology: theorymolecular processesradiative transfer
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Issue S255: Low-Metallicity Star Formation: From the First Stars to Dwarf Galaxies , June 2008 , pp. 18 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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