First stars VII - Lithium in extremely metal poor dwarfs

2006/10/31 by P. Bonifacio, P. Molaro, T. Sivarani +16 · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Abundance (ecology) #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Big Bang nucleosynthesis #Biology #Context (archaeology) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Ecology #Geology #Lithium (medication) #Nucleosynthesis #Paleontology #Physics #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20064834

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Abstract

Context.The primordial lithium abundance is a key prediction of models of big bang nucleosynthesis, and its abundance in metal-poor dwarfs (the Spite plateau) is an important, independent observational constraint on such models.

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