Molecular Clouds at the Reionization Epoch

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Nov 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011eas....52...43s&link_type=abstract

EAS Publications Series, Volume 52, 2011, pp.43-46

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We show that for ionization-driven chemistry in molecular clouds with very sub-solar (but non-vanishing) metallicities, OH replaces CO as the most abundant molecule containing at least one heavy element. Old Population-II stars, with observed metallicities ≲10-3times solar, may have formed in such OH-dominated star-forming clouds, shortly after the heavy elements were first produced at the epoch of reionization in the early Universe.

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