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Machine Learning Detects Multiplicity of the First Stars in Stellar Archaeology Data - IOPscience

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In unveiling the nature of the first stars, the main astronomical clue is the elemental compositions of the second generation of stars, observed as extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars, in the Milky Way. However, no observational constraint was available on their multiplicity, which is crucial for understanding early phases of galaxy formation. We develop a new data-driven method to classify observed EMP stars into mono- or multi-enriched stars with support vector machines. We also use our own nucleosynthesis yields of core-collapse supernovae with mixing fallback that can explain many of the observed EMP stars. Our method predicts, for the first time, that 31.8%