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| « Cosmic Metal Enrichment » |
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Andrea Ferrara |
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After the Bing Bang the cosmic gas had a composition which was (virtually) free of heavy elements. Yet, every single parcel of gas that we can probe today with our most powerful telescopes shows the sign of considerable amounts of metals, up to the highest redshift. When these metals where first produced, by what sources, and how these atomic species traveled away from their production sites are among the most challenging puzzles in current cosmological scenarios.
I will discuss the open problems and the corresponding experimental data in detail. I will then propose viable explanations that eventually might results in a coherent picture of the history of cosmic metal enrichment. |
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vendredi 5 septembre 2008 - 11:00 Salle des séminaires Évry Schatzman, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
| Page web du séminaire / Seminar's webpage |