{ "id": "1312.5069", "version": "v1", "published": "2013-12-18T09:22:59.000Z", "updated": "2013-12-18T09:22:59.000Z", "title": "Current signatures and search for Pop. III stars in the Local Universe", "authors": [ "Yutaka Komiya", "Takuma Suda", "Masayuki Fujimoto" ], "comment": "5 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the proceedings of \"EWASS 2013 Symposium 5: Local Group, Local Cosmology,\" (8-9 July 2013, Turku, Finland), Mem. S.A.It, M. Monelli and S. Salvadori Eds", "categories": [ "astro-ph.GA", "astro-ph.CO" ], "abstract": "Recent numerical studies argue that low-mass stars can be formed even at zero-metallicity environment. These low-mass Population III(Pop.~III) stars are thought to be still shining and able to be observed in the Local Universe. Most low-mass Pop.~III stars are thought to be formed as secondary companions in binary systems. They can be escaped from their host mini-halos when their primary companions explode as supernovae. In this paper, we estimate the escape probability of the low-mass Pop.~III stars from their host mini-halos. We find that $\\sim 100$ Pop.~III stars are expected. We also compute spatial distribution of these escaped Pop.~III survivors by means of the semi-analytic hierarchical chemical evolution model. Typically, they are distributed around $\\sim 2$Mpc away from the Milky Way but 5 -- $35\\%$ of the escaped stars fall into the Milky Way halo. These escaped Pop.~III stars are possibly detected by very large scaled surveys being planned.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2013-12-18T09:22:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "local universe", "current signatures", "host mini-halos", "semi-analytic hierarchical chemical evolution model", "primary companions explode" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 1272650, "adsabs": "2014MmSAI..85..531K" } } }