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Title: Angular momentum distribution during the collapse of primordial star-forming clouds
Authors: Dutta, Jayanta
Keywords: star formation
early universe
hydrodynamics
instabilities
Issue Date: 15-Dec-2015
Publisher: Springer
Citation: Astrophysics and Space Science, 2016, Vol. 361, Article No. 35
Abstract: It is generally believed that angular momentum is distributed during the gravitational collapse of the primordial star forming cloud. However, so far there has been little understanding of the exact details of the distribution. We use the modified version of the Gadget-2 code, a three-dimensional smoothed-particle hydrodynamics simulation, to follow the evolution of the collapsing gas in both idealized as well as more realistic minihalos. We find that, despite the lack of any initial turbulence and magnetic fields in the clouds the angular momentum profile follows the same characteristic power-law that has been reported in studies that employed fully self-consistent cosmological initial conditions. The fit of the power-law appears to be roughly constant regardless of the initial rotation of the cloud. We conclude that the specific angular momentum of the self-gravitating rotating gas in the primordial minihalos maintains a scaling relation with the gas mass as L ∝ M^{1.125}. We also discuss the plausible mechanisms for the power-law distribution.
Description: Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/7887
ISSN: 0004-640X
1572-946X (Online)
Alternative Location: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016Ap%26SS.361...35D/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10509-015-2622-y
Copyright: 2016 Springer
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