The First Stars: Proceedings of the Mpa/Eso Symposium Held at Garching, Germany, 4-6 August 1999

by Weiss, Achim; Abel, Tom G.; Hill, Vanessa

• ISBN13: 9783540672227
• ISBN10: 3540672222
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Proceedings of the MPA/ESO Workshop, held in Garching, Germany, on August 4-6, 1999. Covers research from spectroscopic observations, stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, structure and galaxy formation.

Table of Contents

Part I. The First Stars -- Introduction and Context
Population III by Popular Demand -- Progress and Previews	3	(12)
Timothy C. Beers
Did the Universe Start at Zero Metallicity?	15	(3)
Karsten Jedamzik
Death of Stellar Baryonic Dark Matter	18	(9)
Katherine Freese
Brian Fields
David Graff
Part II. Observations of Extremely Metal-Poor Galactic Stars
Abundances of the Light Elements in the Ultra-Metal-Poor Stars	27	(10)
Francois Spite
Heavy Elements in Very Metal-Poor Stars	37	(12)
Sean G. Ryan
Finding the First Stars: The Hamburg/ESO Objective Prism Survey	49	(2)
Norbert Christlieb
Dieter Reimers
Lutz Wisotzki
Johannes Reetz
Thomas Gehren
Timothy C. Beers
Copper and Zinc Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars	51	(5)
Francesca Primas
Eric Brugamyer
Chris Sneden
Jeremy R. King
Timothy C. Beers
Ann M. Boesgaard
Constantine P. Deliyannis
CNO Abundances in Metal-Poor Unevolved Stars	56	(6)
Garik Israelian
Ramon J. Garcia Lopez
Rafael Rebolo
CHCN Very Metal-Poor Stars: Are These the Missing Pop III?	62	(2)
Vanessa Hill
Beatriz Barbuy
Francois Spite
Monique Spite
Roger Cayrel
Birgitta Nordstrom
Timothy C. Beers
Preliminary Abundance Ratios in an Extremely Metal-Poor Binary Star	64	(2)
Birgitta Nordstrom
Eric Depagne
Monique Spite
Francois Spite
Vanessa Hill
Roger Cayrel
Timothy C. Beers
Three Very Metal-Poor, Extremely Wide Binaries	66	(2)
Christine Allen
Arcadio Poveda
M.A. Herrera
And if Thick-Disk Stars Were the First Stars?	68	(7)
Klaus Fuhrmann
Gravities of Metal-Poor Halo Dwarfs and the Age of the Universe	75	(2)
Andreas J. Korn
Thomas Gehren
Kinematical Properties of Very Metal-Deficient Stars Based on a Large Unbiased Sample	77	(8)
Masashi Chiba
Part III. The First Stars -- Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
The Peculiar Evolutionary Behaviour of Population III Stars	85	(10)
Vittorio Castellani
Evolution of Pop III Stars	95	(16)
Cesare Chiosi
The Evolutionary Properties of Low-Mass Pop III Stars Including Effects of External Pollution	111	(6)
Santi Cassisi
Maurizio Salaries
Achim Weiss
Helmut Schlattl
Carbon Nucleosynthesis in Metal-Free Low-Mass Stars	117	(2)
Helmut Schlattl
Achim Weiss
Santi Cassisi
Maurizio Salaris
Evolutionary Models of Zero Metallicity Stars	119	(2)
Paola Marigo
Cesare Chiosi
Leo Girardi
Tiziana Sarrubbi
Evolution and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars of Zero Metallicity	121	(6)
Alexander Heger
Stan E. Woosley
Richard Waters
Wind Models and Ionizing Fluxes of Massive Stars at Very Low Metallicity	127	(6)
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
Model Atmospheres and Radiatively Driven Winds of Metal-Poor Stars	133	(2)
Ivan Hubeny
Thierry Lanz
Sally Heap
Synthetic Stellar Clusters for Pop III	135	(2)
Gabriella Raimondo
Enzo Brocato
Santi Cassisi
Vittorio Castellani
Chemical Yields from the First Stars	137	(5)
Laura Portinari
Neutron Capture Nucleosynthesis in Early Galactic Environments	142	(6)
James W. Truran
John J. Cowan
Christopher Sneden
Debra L. Burris
Catherine A. Pilachowski
Stellar and Nuclear-Physics Constraints on Two r-Process Components in the Early Galaxy	148	(2)
Bernd Pfeiffer
Karl-Ludwig Kratz
Ulrich Ott
Friedrich-Karl Thielemann
Chris Sneden
Evolution and Nucleosynthesis of Metal-Free Massive Stars	150	(24)
Hideyuki Umeda
Ken'ichi Nomoto
Takayoshi Nakamura
Dependence of r-Process Yields on the Progenitor Masses of Type II Supernovae	174	(2)
Shinya Wanajo
Kaori Otsuki
Toshitaka Kajino
Yuhri Ishimaru
A New Test of SN II Models and Their Predictions Regarding Nucleosynthesis: The Boron Isotopic Ratio	176	(5)
Luisa Rebull
Francesca Primas
Douglas Duncan
Part IV. Feedback on the Environment
A New Model for Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Halo: Formulation and Applications	181	(2)
Takuji Tsujimoto
Toshikazu Shigeyama
Yuzuru Yoshii
A New Model for Chemical Evolution in the Galactic Halo: First Stars with Heavy Elements	183	(2)
Toshikazu Shigeyama
Takuji Tsujimoto
Light and Metals from Population III Stars	185	(2)
Jason Tumlinson
The Metallicity Enrichment of the First Generation Star of Our Galaxy	187	(2)
Jian Rong Shi
Gang Zhao
Ye Lu
Enrichment of Neutron-Capture Elements in Our Galaxy at the Early Epoch	189	(5)
Yuhri Ishimaru
Shinya Wanajo
Metal-Poor Halo Stars as Tracers of ISM Mixing Processes During Halo Formation	194	(5)
Dominik Argast
Markus Samland
Ortwin E. Gerhard
Friedrich-Karl Thielemann
The EASE Scenario: Dynamical Study of the Supernova Phase	199	(5)
Genevieve Parmentier
Emannuel Jehin
Pierre Magain
Arlette Noels
Anne Thoul
The EASE Scenario: A New Origin for Metal-Poor Stars?	204	(2)
Emmanuel Jehin
Pierre Magain
Arlette Noels
Genevieve Parmentier
Anne Thoul
Numerical Simulations of the Galaxy Formation	206	(2)
Kenji Bekki
Masashi Chiba
Cosmological Reionization by Stellar Sources	208	(5)
Nickolay Y. Gnedin
The Impact of Pop III Stars on Reionization	213	(4)
Andrea Ferrara
Benedetta Ciardi
Zero Metallicity Stellar Sources and the Reionization Epoch	217	(2)
Paolo Cojazzi
Alessandro Bressan
Francesco Lucchin
Ornella Pantano
The Radiative Feedback from the First Stars and Quasars and the End of the Dark Age	219	(6)
Zoltan Haiman
Temperature of the First H II Regions	225	(4)
Thomas Beckert
PART V. Formation of the First Stars
Chemistry and Cooling of the Primordial Gas	229	(13)
Daniele Galli
Francesco Palla
The First Stars: Where Did They Form?	242	(8)
Jordi Miralda-Escude
First Structure Formation and the First Stars	250	(11)
Michael L. Norman
Tom Abel
Greg Bryan
The Destruction of Molecular Hydrogen	261	(2)
Simon Glover
Fragmentation of Primordial Gas Clouds: On the Mass of the First Stars	263	(5)
Fumitaka Nakamura
Masayuki Umemura
On the Formation of Primordial Stars and Pop III Luminous Objects	268	(5)
Ryoichi Nishi
Hajime Susa
Kazuyuki Omukai
Collapse and Fragmentation of Rotating Primordial Clouds	273	(2)
Toru Tsuribe
The Effect of Spin on the Fragmentation of Primordial Gas	275	(2)
Volker Bromm
Paolo S. Coppi
Richard B. Larson
Protostellar Collapse with Various Metallicities	277	(2)
Kazuyuki Omukai
Does Deuterium Enable the Formation of Primordial Brown Dwarfs?	279	(4)
Hideya Uehara
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka
Part VI. Observational Clues from Galaxies at High z or Low Z
Local Dwarf Galaxies: Windows on Life at High z with Low Z	283	(10)
Mario Mateo
Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies -- Home to the Latest of the First Stars?	293	(5)
Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck
Ulrich Hopp
Mary M. Crone
Laura Greggio
On the Origin of Nitrogen in Low-Metallicity Galaxies	298	(5)
Leonid S. Pilyugin
On the Evolutionary Status of I Zw 18	303	(2)
Yuri Izotov
Polichronis Papaderos
Trinh Thuan
Klaus Fricke
Craig Foltz
Natalia Guseva
The First Stars: Clues from the Spectra of QSOs and High Redshift Galaxies	305	(14)
Max Pettini
Evidence for Large Scale Structure in the Lyα Forest at z > 2.6	319	(2)
Gerard M. Williger
Alain Smette
Cyril Hazard
Jack A. Baldwin
Richard G. McMahon
Galactic Chemical Evolution and Damped Lyman α Absorbers	321	(2)
Helmut Meusinger
Rajko Thon
The Hell Gunn--Peterson Effect	323	(4)
Sara R. Heap
Ivan Hubeny
Alain Smette
Gerard Williger
Part VII. A New View of the First Stars
Where Are the First Stars Now?	327	(9)
Simon D.M. White
Volker Springel
Observational Constraints on the Nature of the First Stars - Final Comments	336	(7)
Timothy C. Beers
The First Stars: Final Remarks	343	(6)
Richard B. Larson
List of Participants	349	(6)
Author Index	355