From first stars to the Spite plateau: A possible reconciliation of halo stars observations with predictions from big bang nucleosynthesis

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 653, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 300-315

  Piau, L ^a,f   Beers, T C ^b,g   Balsara, D S ^c,h   Sivarani, T ^b,i   Truran, J W ^a,d   Ferguson, J W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

ⁱ AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: abundances; Galaxy: halo; Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances; Stars: abundances

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747048496     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508445     Document Type: Article

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