Do Small-Scale Dark Matter Fluctuations Govern the Fragmentation of Primordial Gas?
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In order to constrain the initial mass function of the first generation of stars (Population III), one has to study the fragmentation properties of primordial gas. We present results from 3D simulations, based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, which explore the idea that small-scale fluctuations in the (cold) dark matter recreate a filamentary and clumpy structure in the gas component on scales smaller than the initial Jeans mass, where all primordial fluctuations would have been wiped out.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998