@book{gledocs_11858_00-1735-0000-0001-3102-9, author = {Jappsen, Anne-Katharina}, title = {Present and early star formation}, year = {2006}, publisher = {Univ. Potsdam}, abstract = {We investigate the rotational and thermal properties of star-forming molecular clouds using hydrodynamic simulations. Stars form from molecular cloud cores by gravoturbulent fragmentation. Understanding the angular momentum and the thermal evolution of cloud cores thus plays a fundamental role in completing the theoretical picture of star formation. This is true not only for current star formation as observed in regions like the Orion nebula or the ?-Ophiuchi molecular cloud but also for the formation of stars of the first or second generation in the universe...}, note = { \url {http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0001-3102-9}}, }