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Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Population III, and Stellar Genetics in the Galactic Halo*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Sean G. Ryan
Sean G. Ryan*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom; [email protected]
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Abstract

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The diverse isotopic and elemental signatures produced in different nucleosynthetic sites are passed on to successive generations of stars. By tracing these chemical signatures back through the stellar populations of the Galaxy, it is possible to unravel its nucleosynthetic history and even to study stars which are now extinct. This review considers recent applications of ‘stellar genetics’ to examine the earliest episodes of nucleosynthesis in the universe, in Population iii stars and the Big Bang.

Keywords

stars: abundancesstars: Population iiGalaxy: abundancesGalaxy: formationGalaxy: halo
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , 2002 , pp. 238 - 245
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2002

Footnotes

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Invited Talk, Annual Conference of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Lorne, 2–4 July 2001.

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