FIRST STARS III

First Stars III Conference

Brian W. O'Shea, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, USA ; Alexander Heger, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, USA ; Tom Abel, KIPAC, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Conference Location and Date: Santa Fe, New Mexico, 15-20 July 2007

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published April 2008; ISBN 978-0-7354-0509-7, One Volume, Print; 540 pages; 8.5 X 11 inches, double column; Hardcover; $270.00

Readership: Astronomers and astrophysicists, including graduate students, postdocs, and faculty that are interested in the first stars, their formation, evolution, death, and the impacts that these objects have on the universe, including galactic chemical evolution. This includes observations of metal-poor galactic halo stars (done by the SDSS SEGUE survey, for example). Secondary audiences include astrophysicists with a more general interest in stellar evolution, explosive and non-explosive nucleosynthesis, nuclear physics, atomic physics, interstellar gas chemistry, radiation transport, hydrodynamics, cosmology and structure formation, and stellar atmospheres, line formation, abundance determinations, and stellar spectroscopy in general.

This conference explored the formation, life, and death of the earliest stars (also known as Population III stars) and their impact on subsequent structure formation and chemical evolution of the universe. First Stars III covered a wide range of observational topics, including star formation, stellar evolution, supernovae, and the search for primordial and metal-poor stars in the galactic halo.

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