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Clumpuscule Formation at High Redshift | F. Combes
; D. Pfenniger
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30 Dec 1997 | Subject: | astro-ph | Abstract: | Over the last two decades, realistic studies have often concluded that the first bound objects to form can be very small, much smaller than a solar mass. After recombination, the Jeans mass drops rapidly to the order of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) mass ($sim 10^5$ M$_odot$), and the H$_2$ cooling can make the collapse quasi-isothermal; this leads to recursive fragmentation, and formation of clumps so dense that 3-body reactions transform the gas almost entirely to the molecular phase. This could lead to star formation in some places, but since star formation is very inefficient, most of the molecular gas could consist of a fractal built on clumpuscules thermalized with the background radiation, and filling a tiny fraction of the volume. The bulk of the gas mass can therefore be trapped in this phase, well before the first stars re-heat and re-ionize the diffuse gaseous medium}. This results in a very contrasted multi-phase baryonic medium, that has partly remained until the present time. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9801319 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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