Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-02-27
Astrophys.J.641:L41-L44,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/503604
The apparent absence of stars in the Milky Way halo with -5 ~< [Fe/H] ~< -4 suggests that the gas out of which the halo stars were born experienced a period of low or delayed star formation after the local universe was lit up by the first, metal-free generation of stars (Pop III). Negative feedback owed to the Pop III stars could initially have prevented the pre-Galactic halo from cooling, which thereby delayed the collapse and inhibited further star formation. During this period, however, the nucleosynthesis products of the first supernovae (SNe) had time to mix with the halo gas. As a result, the initially primordial gas was already weakly enriched in heavy elements, in particular iron, at the time of formation of the Galactic halo. The very high, observed C/Fe ratios in the two recently discovered hyper metal-poor stars ([Fe/H]<-5) HE 0107-5240 and HE 1327-2326 as well as the diversity of C/Fe ratios in the population of extremely metal-poor stars ([Fe/H]<-3) are then naturally explained by a combination of pre-enrichment by Pop III stars and local enrichment by subsequent generations of massive, rotating stars, for which the most massive ones end their lives as black hole-forming SNe, only ejecting their outer (carbon-rich) layers. The possible existence of populations of mega metal-poor/iron-free stars ([Fe/H]<-6) is also discussed.
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