THE CHEMICAL IMPRINT OF SILICATE DUST ON THE MOST METAL-POOR STARS

We investigate the impact of dust-induced gas fragmentation on the formation of the first low-mass, metal-poor stars (<1 M[subscript ☉]) in the early universe. Previous work has shown the existence of a critical dust-to-gas ratio, below which dust thermal cooling cannot cause gas fragmentation. A...

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Main Authors: Bromm, Volker, Ji, Alexander Pung, Frebel, Anna L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93081
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4863-8842
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2139-7145