Assessing the influence of metallicity on fragmentation of proto-galactic gas
Abstract
In cold dark matter cosmological models, the first stars to form are believed to do so within small protogalaxies. We study the influence of low levels of metal enrichment on the cooling and collapse of ionized gas in these protogalactic halos using three-dimensional, smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations.
- Publication:
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Highlights of Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- August 2007
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2007HiA....14..268J
- Keywords:
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- stars: formation;
- methods: numerical;
- hydrodynamics;
- early Universe