The First Stars: Proceedings of the MPA ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 4-6 August 1999 (ESO Astrophysics Symposia)

Population III by Popular Demand - Progress and Previews....Pages 3-14
Did the Universe Start at Zero Metallicity?....Pages 15-17
Death of Stellar Baryonic Dark Matter....Pages 18-23
Abundances of the Light Elements in the Ultra-Metal-Poor Stars....Pages 27-36
Heavy Elements in Very Metal-Poor Stars....Pages 37-48
Finding the First Stars: The Hamburg/ESO Objective Prism Survey....Pages 49-50
Copper and Zinc Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars....Pages 51-55
CN0 Abundances in Metal-Poor Unevolved Stars....Pages 56-61
CHCN Very Metal-Poor Stars: Are These the Missing Pop III ?....Pages 62-63
Preliminary Abundance Ratios in an Extremely Metal-Poor Binary Star....Pages 64-65
Three Very Metal-Poor, Extremely Wide Binaries....Pages 66-67
And if Thick-Disk Stars Were the First Stars?....Pages 68-74
Gravities of Metal-Poor Halo Dwarfs and the Age of the Universe....Pages 75-76
Kinematical Properties of Very Metal-Deficient Stars Based on a Large Unbiased Sample....Pages 77-81
The Peculiar Evolutionary Behaviour of Population III Stars....Pages 85-94
Evolution of Pop III Stars....Pages 95-110
The Evolutionary Properties of Low-Mass Pop III Stars Including Effects of External Pollution....Pages 111-116
Carbon Nucleosynthesis in Metal-Free Low-Mass Stars....Pages 117-118
Evolutionary Models of Zero Metallicity Stars....Pages 119-120
Evolution and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars of Zero Metallicity....Pages 121-126
Wind Models and Ionizing Fluxes of Massive Stars at Very Low Metallicity....Pages 127-132
Model Atmospheres and Radiatively Driven Winds of Metal-Poor Stars....Pages 133-134
Synthetic Stellar Clusters for Pop III....Pages 135-136
Chemical Yields from the First Stars....Pages 137-141
Neutron Capture Nucleosynthesis in Early Galactic Environments....Pages 142-147
Stellar and Nuclear-Physics Constraints on Two r -Process Components in the Early Galaxy....Pages 148-149
Evolution and Nucleosynthesis of Metal-Free Massive Stars....Pages 150-173
Dependence of r -process Yields on the Progenitor Masses of Type II Supernovae....Pages 174-175
A New Test of SN II Models and Their Predictions Regarding Nucleosynthesis: The Boron Isotopic Ratio....Pages 176-177
A New Model for Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Halo: Formulation and Applications....Pages 181-182
A New Model for Chemical Evolution in the Galactic Halo: First Stars with Heavy Elements....Pages 183-184
Light and Metals from Population III Stars....Pages 185-186
The Metallicity Enrichment of the First Generation Star of Our Galaxy....Pages 187-188
Enrichment of Neutron-Capture Elements in Our Galaxy at the Early Epoch....Pages 189-193
Metal-Poor Halo Stars as Tracers of ISM Mixing Processes During Halo Formation....Pages 194-198
The EASE Scenario: Dynamical Study of the Supernova Phase....Pages 199-203
The EASE Scenario: A New Origin for Metal-Poor Stars?....Pages 204-205
Numerical Simulations of the Galaxy Formation....Pages 206-207
Cosmological Reionization by Stellar Sources....Pages 208-212
The Impact of Pop III Stars on Reionization....Pages 213-216
Zero Metallicity Stellar Sources and the Reionization Epoch....Pages 217-218
The Radiative Feedback from the First Stars and Quasars and the End of the Dark Age....Pages 219-224
Temperature of the First HII Regions....Pages 225-226
Chemistry and Cooling of the Primordial Gas....Pages 229-241
The First Stars: Where Did They Form?....Pages 242-249
First Structure Formation and the First Stars....Pages 250-260
The Destruction of Molecular Hydrogen....Pages 261-262
Fragmentation of Primordial Gas Clouds: On the Mass of the First Stars....Pages 263-267
On the Formation of Primordial Stars and Pop III Luminous Objects....Pages 268-272
Collapse and Fragmentation of Rotating Primordial Clouds....Pages 273-274
The Effect of Spin on the Fragmentation of Primordial Gas....Pages 275-276
Protostellar Collapse with Various Metallicities....Pages 277-278
Does Deuterium Enable the Formation of Primordial Brown Dwarfs?....Pages 279-280
Local Dwarf Galaxies: Windows on Life at High z with Low Z ....Pages 283-292
Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies - Home to the Latest of the First Stars?....Pages 293-297
On the Origin of Nitrogen in Low-Metallicity Galaxies....Pages 298-302
On the Evolutionary Status of I Zw 18....Pages 303-304
The First Stars: Clues from the Spectra of QSOs and High Redshift Galaxies....Pages 305-318
Evidence for Large Scale Structure in the Ly $\\alpha$ Forest at z > 2.6....Pages 319-320
Galactic Chemical Evolution and Damped Lyman $\\alpha$ Absorbers....Pages 321-322
The He II Gunn-Peterson Effect....Pages 323-324
Where Are the First Stars Now?....Pages 327-335
Observational Constraints on the Nature of the First Stars - Final Comments....Pages 336-342
The First Stars: Final Remarks....Pages 343-347