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The First Stars

Proceedings of the MPA/ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 4–6 August 1999

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Part of the book series: ESO Astrophysics Symposia (ESO)

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Table of contents (64 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Did the Universe Start at Zero Metallicity?

    • Karsten Jedamzik
    Pages 15-17
  3. Death of Stellar Baryonic Dark Matter

    • Katherine Freese, Brian Fields, David Graff
    Pages 18-23
  4. Heavy Elements in Very Metal-Poor Stars

    • Sean G. Ryan
    Pages 37-48
  5. Finding the First Stars: The Hamburg/ESO Objective Prism Survey

    • Norbert Christlieb, Dieter Reimers, Lutz Wisotzki, Johannes Reetz, Thomas Gehren, Timothy C. Beers
    Pages 49-50
  6. Copper and Zinc Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars

    • Francesca Primas, Eric Brugamyer, Chris Sneden, Jeremy R. King, Timothy C. Beers, Ann M. Boesgaard et al.
    Pages 51-55
  7. CN0 Abundances in Metal-Poor Unevolved Stars

    • Garik Israelian, Ramón J. García López, Rafael Rebolo
    Pages 56-61
  8. CHCN Very Metal-Poor Stars: Are These the Missing Pop III ?

    • Vanessa Hill, Beatriz Barbuy, François Spite, Monique Spite, Roger Cayrel, Birgitta Nordström et al.
    Pages 62-63
  9. Preliminary Abundance Ratios in an Extremely Metal-Poor Binary Star

    • Birgitta Nordström, Eric Depagne, Monique Spite, François Spite, Vanessa Hill, Roger Cayrel et al.
    Pages 64-65
  10. Three Very Metal-Poor, Extremely Wide Binaries

    • Christine Allen, Arcadio Poveda, M. A. Herrera
    Pages 66-67
  11. Gravities of Metal-Poor Halo Dwarfs and the Age of the Universe

    • Andreas J. Korn, Thomas Gehren
    Pages 75-76
  12. Evolution of Pop III Stars

    • Cesare Chiosi
    Pages 95-110
  13. The Evolutionary Properties of Low-Mass Pop III Stars Including Effects of External Pollution

    • Santi Cassisi, Maurizio Salaris, Achim Weiss, Helmut Schlattl
    Pages 111-116
  14. Carbon Nucleosynthesis in Metal-Free Low-Mass Stars

    • Helmut Schlattl, Achim Weiss, Santi Cassisi, Maurizio Salaris
    Pages 117-118
  15. Evolutionary Models of Zero Metallicity Stars

    • Paola Marigo, Cesare Chiosi, Léo Girardi, Tiziana Sarrubbi
    Pages 119-120

About this book

Neither the formation process of "The First Stars" nor their existence in the present universe is known with any certainty. The authors of this volume address all open questions presenting an abundance of interesting data at the same time as giving a relatively exhaustive overview of our present-day knowledge. This covers research from spectroscopic observations, stellar evolutions, nucleosynthesis, structure and galaxy formation. The contributions shed new light on past views, often questioning traditional interpretations. Dealing with problems at the crossroads of cosmology, star formation and chemical evolution in stars, the book addresses astrophysicists and researchers, as well as graduate students. However, it should also be of interest to nuclear physicists and astrochemists.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The First Stars

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 4–6 August 1999

  • Editors: Achim Weiss, Tom G. Abel, Vanessa Hill

  • Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b75028

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-30941-4Published: 23 August 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-46461-7Published: 12 February 2004

  • Series ISSN: 1431-2433

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 356

  • Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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