First stars

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Author: Dr. Timothy C. Beers, Michigan State University

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Dr. Timothy C. Beers accepted the invitation on 6 November 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 6 December 2007).

This article will briefly cover: The nature of the first stars to have formed in the Universe (according to current theory), as well as the observational efforts now underway to constrain their properties based on chemical abundances in the most metal-poor stars known.


Author: Dr. Timothy C. Beers, Michigan State University
Invited by: Dr. Søren Bertil F. Dorch, The Niels Bohr Institute and the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
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