Cosmological Signatures in High S/n Spectra

Beckman, J. E.; Pagel, B. E. J.
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The Impact of Very High S/N Spectroscopy on Stellar Physics: Proceedings of the 132nd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Paris, France, June 29-July 3, 1987. Edited by G. Cayrel de Strobel and Monique Spite. International Astronomical Union. Symposium no. 132, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht., p.597

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1988
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The authors review briefly the observational status of abundance determinations for those elements produced in the first seconds of a "standard" Big Bang Universe, showing that although [4He] and [D] appear not to be mutually compatible there is still room for reconciliation via astration of D, for values consistent with estimated [7Li]. New limits to production cross-sections for 7Li appear to limit Nν (the number of light neutrino types) to no more than 3. Non-standard models with fluctuations are briefly considered. The authors show where spectra of improved S:N are needed to progress in constraining cosmological models.