Themiya NanayakkaraThemiya Nanayakkara colloquium: Hunting for the first stars I: Attempts to demystify He II with MUSE |
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The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium | |||
15:00-16:00 Wed 28 Feb 2018 | |||
AbstractIn the quest for identifying pop-III stars, the most sought-after emission line is He II, however, stellar population models are unable to accurately predict the He II features while being consistent with other emission line diagnostics. To produce He II ionizing photons, stellar populations require sources of hard ionizing radiation with energies >= 54.4 eV and sources such as AGN, shocks, X-Ray binaries, stellar rotation and/or binary stellar evolution, and post-AGB stars have been suggested as possible contributors. To accurately identify relative contributions from these wide variety of sources, high signal-to-noise spectra with rest-frame UV/optical coverage and advanced stellar population/photoionization models are required.
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