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Fingerprint of the first stars: multi-enriched extremely metal-poor stars in the TOPoS survey

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 482, Issue 1, Pages 1204-1210

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2783

Keywords

stars: abundances; stars: Population II; stars: Population III; early Universe

Funding

  1. European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007 -2013) via the ERC Advanced Grant 'STARLIGHT: Formation of the First Stars' [339177]
  2. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via SFB 881 'The Milky Way System'
  3. World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan
  4. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via SPP 1573 'Physics of the Interstellar Medium' [KL 1358/18.1, KL 1358/19.2, GL 668/2-1]

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Extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars in the Milky Way inherited the chemical composition of the gas out of which they formed. They therefore carry the chemical fingerprint of the first stars in their spectral lines. It is commonly assumed that EMP stars form from gas that was enriched by only one progenitor supernova ('mono-enriched'). However, recent numerical simulations show that the first stars form in small clusters. Consequently, we expect several supernovae to contribute to the abundances of an EMP star ('multi-enriched'). We analyse seven recently observed EMP stars from the TOPoS survey by applying the divergence of the chemical displacement and find that J1035+0641 is mono-enriched and J1507+0051 is multi-enriched For the remaining five stars, we cannot make a distinct prediction due to theoretical and observational uncertainties. Further observations in the near-UV will help to improve our diagnostic and therefore contribute to constrain the nature of the first stars.

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