The formation and fragmentation of disks around primordial protostars

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6020, 2011, Pages 1040-1042

  Clark, Paul C ^a   Glover, Simon C O ^a   Smith, Rowan J ^a   Greif, Thomas H ^b   Klessen, Ralf S ^a,c   Bromm, Volker ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

COSMIC RAY; DARK; GRAVITY FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLLISION INDUCED EMISSION; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GRAVITY; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIMORDIAL PROTOSTAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 79952070935     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1198027     Document Type: Article

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