From Darkness To Light: The First Stars in the Universe
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Paramount among the processes that ended the cosmic `dark ages' must have been the formation of the first generation of stars (the so-called Population III). We summarize recent progress in constraining its nature, and we discuss the basic physical reasons for why the first stars might have been quite massive, possibly even very massive with M > 100 M_sun.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0110459,
title = {From Darkness To Light: The First Stars in the Universe},
author = {Volker Bromm and Paolo S. Coppi and Richard B. Larson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0110459},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures, talk contributed to the conference:"Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology", Garching, August 2001