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Yields of Population III Supernovae and the Abundance Patterns of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2005

K. Nomoto
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan email: nomoto@astron.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
N. Tominaga
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan email: nomoto@astron.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
H. Umeda
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan email: nomoto@astron.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
C. Kobayashi
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany
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Abstract

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The abundance patterns of extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars provide us with important information on nucleosynthesis in supernovae (SNe) formed in a Pop III or EMP environment, and thus on the nature of the first stars in the Universe. We review nucleosynthesis yields of various types of those SNe, focusing on core-collapse (black-hole-forming) SNe with various progenitor masses, explosion energies (including Hypernovae), and asphericity. We discuss the implications of the observed trends in the abundance ratios among iron-peak elements, and the large C/Fe ratio observed in certain EMP stars with particular attention to recently discovered hyper metal-poor (HMP) stars. We show that the abundance pattern of the HMP stars with [Fe/H] <−5 and other EMP stars are in good accord with those of black-hole-forming supernovae, but not pair-instability supernovae. This suggests that black-hole-forming supernovae made important contributions to the early Galactic (and cosmic) chemical evolution. Finally we discuss the nature of First (Pop III) Stars.

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