Session 34. Detecting the First Stars and AGN

Topical Session, Tuesday, June 1, 2004, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 707/709

Lunch break follows paper 34.06.

34.01 The Evolution and Fate of the First Massive Stars

A. Heger (LANL), S. E. Woosley (University of California at Santa Cruz)

34.02 Nucleosynthesis in Black-Hole-Forming Supernovae at High z

K. Nomoto, H. Umeda, K. Maeda, T. Ohkubo, N. Tominaga (U of Tokyo)

34.03 Observational Constraints on the Nature of the First Stars: From Nucleosynthesis to Reionization

J. Tumlinson (University of Chicago)

34.04 Metallicities and Nucleosynthesis Patterns in Early Generation Halo Stars

T. Beers (Michigan State University)

34.05 Metallicity Signatures from the First Stars

Y.-Z. Qian (University of Minnesota)

34.06 Measuring the Metallicity of the High Redshift IGM: Traces of Early Stellar Feedback

R. A. Simcoe (Pappalardo Fellow, MIT)

34.07 Constraining the Efficiency of High Redshift Star Formation

R.S. Somerville (STScI)

34.08 The Ionizing Efficiency and Mass Function of the First Stars

A. Venkatesan (University of Colorado, Boulder)

34.09 The Signatures of Reionization

N. Gnedin (University of Colorado)

34.10 High-redshift Quasars -- their Signatures and Effects

X. Fan (Arizona)

34.11 Constraints on the First Stars From Lyman-alpha Emission Surveys

S. Malhotra (Space Telescope Science Institute), Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey Collaboration

34.12 The Critical Metallicity for Cosmic Star Formation

R. Schneider (Enrico Fermi Center (Rome), INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri), A. Ferrara, R. Salvaterra (SISSA/International School for Advanced Studies), K. Omukai (Division for Theoretical Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatory)