Astronomers report finding earliest stars that enriched cosmos

[diogenesNY]

I thought this might be of interest: NY Times article on evidence of pop III stars.

diogenesNY

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New York Times - June 17, 2015

Astronomers Report Finding Earliest Stars That Enriched Cosmos
By DENNIS OVERBYEJUNE 17, 2015

Astronomers said on Wednesday that they had discovered a lost generation of monster stars that ushered light into the universe after the Big Bang and that jump-started the creation of the elements needed for planets and life before disappearing forever.

Modern-day stars like our sun have a healthy mix of heavy elements [...]

[article continues] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/s...-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

 

[websterling]

There was also this at physicsworld.com-
Getting the best glimpse of first-generation stars in the universe

and the paper on the arXiv-
Evidence for PopIII-like stellar populations in the most luminous Lyman-α emitters at the epoch of re-ionisation: spectroscopic confirmation

 

[marcus]

Earlier thread about the same news item in Cosmology forum
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/nyt-david-sobral-et-al-cr7-popiii-galaxy-article.819483/
Posted about 4 hours before post#1 here. The thread title is:
NYT: David Sobral et al "CR7" PopIII galaxy article

I believe I've identified the journal article that David Overbye's NYT article is based on.
Yes, I see Websterling came up with the same arXiv link that I did.

Websterling also has a physicsworld link. So I'll quote post#2 over there in the earlier thread.

 

[Drakkith]

Earlier thread about the same news item in Cosmology forum

Indeed. Since there's little discussion here yet, I'm going to lock this thread. Anyone wanting to discuss this article can do so in the thread in the cosmology forum: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/nyt-david-sobral-et-al-cr7-popiii-galaxy-article.819483/