SEGUE 1—A COMPRESSED STAR FORMATION HISTORY BEFORE REIONIZATION

Segue 1 is the current best candidate for a "first galaxy," a system that experienced only a single, short burst of star formation and has since remained unchanged. Here we present possible star formation scenarios that can explain Segue 1's unique metallicity distribution. While the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Webster, David, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Frebel, Anna L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102673
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2139-7145