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New Insights into Primordial Star F
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Acknowledgments I first want to giv
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angular momentum to rotate at nearl
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2.4.2.5 Thermodynamics of accretion
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Chapter 7. Outlook 177 Bibliography
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List of Figures 2.1 Density project
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1.1 Motivation Chapter 1 Introducti
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leaving behind a neutron star or bl
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describe studies that have attempte
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CRs may therefore provide a pathway
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expected that some of the gas withi
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our numerical methodology in Chapte
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scattering is the major source of o
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portance. The reaction rates for an
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The size of the refinement levels h
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the sink a temperature and pressure
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same time, such as the fragments in
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Figure 2.2: Physical state of the c
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2.4.2 Protostellar accretion 2.4.2.
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Despite some amount of rotational s
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Figure 2.6: Velocity field of the c
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Figure 2.7: Disk mass vs. time sinc
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Figure 2.8: Angular momentum struct
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sink tform [yr] Mfinal [M⊙] rinit
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sink (∼ 4 M⊙) that merged with
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actual final mass of the star is li
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the average temperature of all part
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disk accretion onto a primordial pr
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Figure 2.12: Impact of feedback on
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Figure 2.13: Comparison of specific
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the central core, eventually compri
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extending our simulation to later t
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that such a non-primordial origin t
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impose an upper mass limit to Pop I
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we use a ray-tracing scheme to foll
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3.2.3 Sink Particle Method When an
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convenient way to directly measure
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where the sum now extends from the
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Figure 3.1: Evolution of various pr
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ased on the prescription of Omukai
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ate found at late times in our ‘n
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Figure 3.2: Evolution of various di
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Figure 3.3: Evolution of disk mass
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Figure 3.4: Temperature versus numb
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disk mass is able to level off in d
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Figure 3.6: Projected density and t
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onto the disk. The numerical experi
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that the I-front expands as an hour
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Figure 3.8: Evolution of various H
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˙ M∗ = 3πΣν, (3.18) where ν
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the discrete nature of the gas part
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stars. We also note that, despite t
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current computational limits. If ra
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the deaths of massive stars (see Wo
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It is apparent that the angular mom
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h = 0.7. To accelerate structure fo
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acc = Lres 50 AU, where: Lres 0.5
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years, up to several dynamical time
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sp = GM∗ c2 , (4.1) s where cs is
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Figure 4.2: Left: Angular momentum
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through the disk, and the disk is e
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steadily grows for the rest of the
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Fig. 4.5 shows these timescales for
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sink B. Once on the MS, the sink A
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Figure 4.6: Evolution of stellar ro
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sink M∗(5000 yr) [M⊙] M∗(10 5
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present here, particularly if the s
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the stars grow to larger masses (se
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Here, Σ is the disk surface densit
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which has already detected GRBs at
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M⊙. They find that the specific a
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