The first stars: formation, properties, and impact

RS Klessen, SCO Glover - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The first generation of stars, often called Population III (or Pop III), form from metal-free
primordial gas at redshifts z∼ 30 and below. They dominate the cosmic star-formation …

Near-field cosmology with extremely metal-poor stars

A Frebel, JE Norris - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The oldest, most metal-poor stars in the Galactic halo and satellite dwarf galaxies present an
opportunity to explore the chemical and physical conditions of the earliest star-forming …

Galaxy properties and UV escape fractions during the epoch of reionization: results from the renaissance simulations

H Xu, JH Wise, ML Norman, K Ahn… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Cosmic reionization is thought to be primarily fueled by the first generations of galaxies. We
examine their stellar and gaseous properties, focusing on the star formation rates and the …

Cosmic Dawn II (CoDa II): a new radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of the self-consistent coupling of galaxy formation and reionization

P Ocvirk, D Aubert, JG Sorce, PR Shapiro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Cosmic Dawn II (CoDa II) is a new, fully coupled radiation-hydrodynamics
simulation of cosmic reionization and galaxy formation and their mutual impact, to redshift z< …

Cosmic Dawn (CoDa): the first radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of reionization and galaxy formation in the Local Universe

P Ocvirk, N Gillet, PR Shapiro, D Aubert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Cosmic reionization by starlight from early galaxies affected their evolution, thereby
impacting reionization itself. Star formation suppression, for example, may explain the …

Charting the parameter space of the global 21-cm signal

A Cohen, A Fialkov, R Barkana… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The early star-forming Universe is still poorly constrained, with the properties of high-redshift
stars, the first heating sources and reionization highly uncertain. This leaves observers …

Public release of a-sloth: Ancient stars and local observables by tracing halos

T Hartwig, M Magg, LH Chen, Y Tarumi… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The semianalytical model a-sloth (Ancient Stars and Local Observables by Tracing Halos) is
the first public code that connects the formation of the first stars and galaxies to observables …

Starbursts in low-mass haloes at Cosmic Dawn. I. The critical halo mass for star formation

O Nebrin, SK Giri, G Mellema - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The first stars, galaxies, star clusters, and direct-collapse black holes are expected to have
formed in low-mass (∼ 105–109 M⊙) haloes at Cosmic Dawn (z∼ 10–30) under conditions …

Connecting the first galaxies with ultrafaint dwarfs in the Local Group: chemical signatures of Population III stars

M Jeon, G Besla, V Bromm - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Connecting the First Galaxies with Ultrafaint Dwarfs in the Local Group: Chemical
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Cradles of the first stars: self-shielding, halo masses, and multiplicity

D Skinner, JH Wise - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The formation of Population III (Pop III) stars is a critical step in the evolution of the early
Universe. To understand how these stars affected their metal-enriched descendants, the …