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The Formation of Population III Stars and Their Effect on
Cosmological Structure in the Early Universe

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Individual Chapters (separate pdf files):
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Simulation methodology
Chapter 3 - A Comparison of AMR and SPH cosmology codes (ApJ paper)
Chapter 4 - Formation of primordial stars in a CDM universe (ApJ paper 1; ApJ paper 2)
Chapter 5 - Formation of primordial stars in a WDM universe (ApJ paper)
Chapter 6 - The formation of second-generation primordial objects (ApJ paper)
Chapter 7 - Formation of metal-enriched 2nd generation objects
Chapter 8 - Pre-galactic enrichment of the IGM (ApJ paper)
Chapter 9 - Summary and future work