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Caption: Figure 2.
Top: radial profiles of the Toomre Q-parameter at 30 kyr (a) and 40 kyr (b) after protostellar birth. The horizontal dashed line marks the threshold value of ﹩\sqrt{3}﹩, below which the gravitational instability develops. Bottom: effective αGI parameter (c) and Reynolds αR parameter (d) for the disk. The values of αGI and αR are lowest in the innermost regions of the disk and highest near its outer edge, which is outlined by the black line. Note that αGI and αR are higher than αvisc throughout most of the disk.
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