Copyright by Athena Ranice Stacy 2011 - The University of Texas at ...
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List <strong>of</strong> Figures<br />
2.1 Density projection <strong>of</strong> gas on various scales. . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
2.2 Physical st<strong>at</strong>e <strong>of</strong> the collapsing core just prior to sink form<strong>at</strong>ion. 23<br />
2.3 Radial structure <strong>of</strong> gas just prior to sink form<strong>at</strong>ion. . . . . . . 24<br />
2.4 Kinem<strong>at</strong>ics <strong>of</strong> gas around the main sink particle. . . . . . . . . 26<br />
2.5 Density and temper<strong>at</strong>ure projections <strong>of</strong> the star-forming disk. 28<br />
2.6 Velocity field <strong>of</strong> the central gas distribution. . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />
2.7 Disk mass versus time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
2.8 Angular momentum structure <strong>of</strong> star-forming gas. . . . . . . . 33<br />
2.9 Sink mass and accretion r<strong>at</strong>e versus time. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
2.10 Evolution <strong>of</strong> gas thermodynamic properties. . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />
2.11 Dominant cooling processes in the center <strong>of</strong> the minihalo. . . . 42<br />
2.12 Impact <strong>of</strong> feedback on the accretion process. . . . . . . . . . . 45<br />
2.13 Specific angular momentum pr<strong>of</strong>iles <strong>of</strong> gas for various cosmological<br />
simul<strong>at</strong>ions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47<br />
3.1 Evolution <strong>of</strong> various properties <strong>of</strong> the growing protostar according<br />
to our analytical model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />
3.2 Evolution <strong>of</strong> various disk properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />
3.3 Evolution <strong>of</strong> disk mass over time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
3.4 Temper<strong>at</strong>ure versus number density for both cases <strong>at</strong> various<br />
times in the simul<strong>at</strong>ions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />
3.5 Projected density and temper<strong>at</strong>ure structure <strong>of</strong> central 10,000<br />
AU without protostellar feedback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />
3.6 Projected density and temper<strong>at</strong>ure structure <strong>of</strong> gas under LW<br />
and ioniz<strong>at</strong>ion feedback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />
3.7 Projected ioniz<strong>at</strong>ion structure <strong>of</strong> gas <strong>at</strong> 1700, 2300, and 4200 yr<br />
after initial sink form<strong>at</strong>ion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82<br />
3.8 Evolution <strong>of</strong> various H ii region properties over time. . . . . . 85<br />
3.9 Effect <strong>of</strong> radi<strong>at</strong>ive feedback on protostellar accretion. . . . . . 88<br />
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