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Old 13-December-2007, 07:39 AM
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Such a star would tell us about the temperature of Dark Matter: Clumping would be different in a warm DM Universe, and it would allow for the formation of small first generation (= zero metallicity) stars, whereas cold DM models call for a first generation of stars that were supermassive and are thus long since gone.
Fascinating! Glad to see that it was worth the wait.

I was pretty much stumped by the question. The only thing I could think of was age - and George was shot down when he guessed that!
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