Info on HE 0107-5240

Info on HE 0107-5240, the most iron-deficient star known

Download an offprint of our Nature article here (Postscript, 120KB).

A finding chart can be downloaded here.

We recently made the New Scientist cover story!

Below are some interesting links.

Selected papers mentioning HE 0107-5240:
Clarke & Bromm (2003), MNRAS in press
Beers (2003), Nature 422, 825
Bonifacio et al. (2003), Nature 422, 834
Schneider et al. (2003), Nature 422, 869
Umeda & Nomoto (2003), Nature 422, 871
Omukai & Palla (2003), ApJ 589, 677

Press releases and the like:
ESO Press Release
EurekAlert
RSAA News of the Month
MSU News Bulletin
Press release of the University of Uppsala (in swedish)
Press release of the University of Hamburg (in german)

There was quite some resonance in the media! Our discovery was mentioned in daily nationwide newspapers in many countries, including Brazil, Germany (GEO, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt), Japan, Spain (El Mundo), Sweden (Dagens Nyheter). There were some radio broadcastings as well (e.g., BBC, Swedish Radio, ABC Canberra, Nordeutscher Rundfunk, Deutschlandfunk). Below are selected links to online articles.
Nature Science Update
BBC News
The Age (Australia)
ABC online (Australia)
Sky and Telescope
Astronomy.com
spacetoday.net
space.com
PhysicsWeb
BrightSurf.com
RP Online (in german)
Netzeitung (in german)
GUFORC Nachrichten (in german)
astronews.com, 31 October 2002 (in german)
astronews.com, 24 April 2003 (in german)
astronomie.de (in german)
GEO.de (in german)
heise.de (in german)
wissenschaft-online (in german)
wissenschaft.de (in german)

Our star has also entered teaching...
NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial (scroll to the bottom of this page)
Review of the Universe
Course on the halo, Leiden University

...and it can be found in an online-encyclopedia!
Wikipedia

Some crazy guys have even reserved a domain name containing HE 0107-5240...
http://www.he0107-5240.com/

...and others get religiously inspired (as far as I understand)!
litaurica.com

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Last modified 15.9.2003 by N.C.