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

Abstract

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.

14 pages, 4 figures Refereed conference paper, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia

References in corpus (2)

• Extremely Metal-Poor Stars. VIII. High-Resolution, High-Signal-To-Noise Analysis of Five Stars with [Fe/H] < -3.5
• The Chemical Composition of Carbon-Rich, Very Metal-Poor Stars: A New Class of Mildly Carbon-Rich Objects Without Excess of Neutron-Capture Elements

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Lithium and Lithium Depletion in Halo Stars on Extreme Orbits