THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST METAL-POOR STARS

The chemical abundances of large samples of extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars can be used to investigate metal-free stellar populations, supernovae, and nucleosynthesis as well as the formation and galactic chemical evolution of the Milky Way and its progenitor halos. However, current progress on the...

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Main Authors: Casey, Andrew R. (Contributor), Schlaufman, Kevin C (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Schlaufman, Kevin C. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-01-16T16:12:00Z.
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