A nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic Cloud
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| author | Ji, Alexander P. Chandra, Vedant Mejias-Torres, Selenna Zhang, Zhongyuan Eitner, Philipp Schlaufman, Kevin C. Andales, Hillary Diane Do, Ha Orrantia, Natalie M. Tudmilla, Rithika Thibodeaux, Pierre N. Stassun, Keivan G. Howell, Madeline Tayar, Jamie Bergemann, Maria Casey, Andrew R. Johnson, Jennifer A. Carlberg, Joleen K. Cerny, William Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G. Hawkins, Keith Kollmeier, Juna A. Laporte, Chervin F. P. Limberg, Guilherme Matsuno, Tadafumi Meszaros, Szabolcs Morrison, Sean Nidever, David L. Stringfellow, Guy S. Schneider, Donald P. Thai, Riley |
| author_facet | Ji, Alexander P. Chandra, Vedant Mejias-Torres, Selenna Zhang, Zhongyuan Eitner, Philipp Schlaufman, Kevin C. Andales, Hillary Diane Do, Ha Orrantia, Natalie M. Tudmilla, Rithika Thibodeaux, Pierre N. Stassun, Keivan G. Howell, Madeline Tayar, Jamie Bergemann, Maria Casey, Andrew R. Johnson, Jennifer A. Carlberg, Joleen K. Cerny, William Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G. Hawkins, Keith Kollmeier, Juna A. Laporte, Chervin F. P. Limberg, Guilherme Matsuno, Tadafumi Meszaros, Szabolcs Morrison, Sean Nidever, David L. Stringfellow, Guy S. Schneider, Donald P. Thai, Riley |
| contents | The first stars formed out of pristine gas, causing them to be so massive that none are expected to have survived until today. If their direct descendants were sufficiently low-mass stars, such stars could exist today and would be recognizable by having the lowest metallicities (abundance of elements heavier than helium). We present the independent identification and detailed chemical analysis of the star SDSS J0715-7334, finding ultra-low elemental abundances of both iron and carbon ([Fe/H] = -4.3, [C/Fe] < -0.2) and total metallicity Z < 7.8 x 10^{-7} (log Z/Zsun < -4.3). The star's orbit indicates that it originates from the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its heavy element abundance pattern can be explained by a primordial supernova with an initial mass of 30 solar masses. This star is over ten times more chemically pristine than the most extreme high-redshift galaxies currently found by the James Webb Space Telescope. It is sufficiently metal-poor that current models of low-mass star formation require dust cooling to explain its existence. |
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| spellingShingle | A nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic Cloud Ji, Alexander P. Chandra, Vedant Mejias-Torres, Selenna Zhang, Zhongyuan Eitner, Philipp Schlaufman, Kevin C. Andales, Hillary Diane Do, Ha Orrantia, Natalie M. Tudmilla, Rithika Thibodeaux, Pierre N. Stassun, Keivan G. Howell, Madeline Tayar, Jamie Bergemann, Maria Casey, Andrew R. Johnson, Jennifer A. Carlberg, Joleen K. Cerny, William Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G. Hawkins, Keith Kollmeier, Juna A. Laporte, Chervin F. P. Limberg, Guilherme Matsuno, Tadafumi Meszaros, Szabolcs Morrison, Sean Nidever, David L. Stringfellow, Guy S. Schneider, Donald P. Thai, Riley Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies The first stars formed out of pristine gas, causing them to be so massive that none are expected to have survived until today. If their direct descendants were sufficiently low-mass stars, such stars could exist today and would be recognizable by having the lowest metallicities (abundance of elements heavier than helium). We present the independent identification and detailed chemical analysis of the star SDSS J0715-7334, finding ultra-low elemental abundances of both iron and carbon ([Fe/H] = -4.3, [C/Fe] < -0.2) and total metallicity Z < 7.8 x 10^{-7} (log Z/Zsun < -4.3). The star's orbit indicates that it originates from the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its heavy element abundance pattern can be explained by a primordial supernova with an initial mass of 30 solar masses. This star is over ten times more chemically pristine than the most extreme high-redshift galaxies currently found by the James Webb Space Telescope. It is sufficiently metal-poor that current models of low-mass star formation require dust cooling to explain its existence. |
| title | A nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21643 |