The formation of the first stars and galaxies

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作者
Bromm, Volker [1 ]
Yoshida, Naoki [2 ]
Hernquist, Lars [3 ]
McKee, Christopher F. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Astron, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[2] Univ Tokyo, Inst Phys & Math Universe, Chiba 2778568, Japan
[3] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[4] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys & Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
关键词
POPULATION-III STARS; INITIAL MASS FUNCTION; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; GAMMA-RAY BURSTS; RADIATIVE FEEDBACK; SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS; STELLAR EVOLUTION; PRIMORDIAL STARS; METAL ENRICHMENT; HII REGION;
D O I
10.1038/nature07990
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Observations made using large ground-based and space-borne telescopes have probed cosmic history from the present day to a time when the Universe was less than one-tenth of its present age. Earlier still lies the remaining frontier, where the first stars, galaxies and massive black holes formed. They fundamentally transformed the early Universe by endowing it with the first sources of light and chemical elements beyond the primordial hydrogen and helium produced in the Big Bang. The interplay of theory and upcoming observations promises to answer the key open questions in this emerging field.
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