Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-03-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
12 pages, 10 figures and 3 tables. Accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
We introduce a prescription for the luminosity from accreting protostars into smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation, and apply the method to simulations of five primordial minihalos generated from cosmological initial conditions. We find that accretion luminosity delays fragmentation within the halos, but does not prevent it. In halos that slowly form a low number of protostars, the accretion luminosity can reduce the number of fragments that are formed before the protostars start ionising their surroundings. However, halos that rapidly form many protostars become dominated by dynamical processes, and the effect of accretion luminosity becomes negligible. Generally the fragmentation found in the halos is highly dependent on the initial conditions. Accretion luminosity does not substantially affect the accretion rates experienced by the protostars, and is far less important than dynamical interactions, which can lead to ejections that effectively terminate the accretion. We find that the accretion rates onto the inner regions of the disks (20 AU) around the protostars are highly variable, in contrast to the constant or smoothly decreasing accretion rates currently used in models of the pre-main sequence evolution of Population III stars.
Clark Paul C.
Glover Simon C. O.
Greif Thomas
Klessen Ralf S.
Smith Jeffrey R.
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