Lithium Trail Leads Back to the Big Bang

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Sep 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000ingn....3...14r&link_type=abstract

The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 3, p. 14-16

Physics

Lithium, Primordial Abundances, High-Resolution Spectroscopy, Ues, Wht.

Scientific paper

Studies of lithium with the high resolution spectrographs UES and UCLES on the WHT and AAT have revealed a slow but steady rise in the Galactic lithium abundance from the earliest stars in the halo of the Galaxy up until the epoch at which the old disk population formed. After this period, prolific Li nucleosynthesis is apparent. Long-standing uncertainties over the contributions of galactic chemical evolution and the destruction of Li can now be addressed, and the primordial lithium abundance and ultimately the universal baryon density OmegaB can be inferred more reliably. The observations may also help clarify the roles of AGB stars and novae in more recent periods of galactic chemical enrichment.

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