The formation of the first luminous objects in the universe |
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| Authors: | Volker Bromm |
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| Institution: | (1) Astronomy Department, Harvard University, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA |
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| Abstract: | Paramount among the processes that ended the cosmic dark ages must have been the emergence of a first generation of stars.
I review recent results on their formation out of metal-free gas, and discuss related open questions that still defy our understanding.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | cosmology: theory galaxies: formation stars: formation |
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