Speaker
Prof.
Anna Frebel
(MIT)
Description
Understanding the origin of the elements has been a decades-long pursuit, with many open questions remaining. Old stars found in the Milky Way and its dwarf satellite galaxies can provide answers because they preserve clean element abundance patterns of the nucleosynthesis processes that operated some 13 billion years ago, enabling reconstruction of the chemical evolution of the elements. This talk focuses on recent advances of finding r-process metal-poor stars and what their detailed abundance measurements can tell us about heavy element nucleosynthesis, actinide production and fission recycling.
Primary author
Prof.
Anna Frebel
(MIT)
