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The Evolution of the Chemical elements of the Universe

2007/08/21 by Rudolph E. Schild, Schild, Rudolph E.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0708.2916

19 Page manuscript, no figures

arxiv created 2007/08/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Spectroscopic observations of distant cosmological sources continue to exhibit a surprising result; that the chemical abundance of the universe seems to be approximately solar for the observed sources at redshifts of 5, 6, and even 7, even though very few galaxies should have existed at these epochs and the principal star formation and heavy element production event should have been at the more local z = 1 - 2.

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