ISBN: 3-540-67222-2
TITLE: The First Stars
AUTHOR: Weiss, Achim; Abel, Tom G.; Hill, Vanessa (Eds.)
TOC:

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