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Lithium is a cornerstone in many active research fields, which are expected to experience a lot of developments in this decade; to name but a few: cosmology, exoplanets, star formation and evolution and stellar remnants. This book should will provide an overview of this topic written by a scholar who has first-hand research experience. The reader will benefit from having all aspects of the topic covered in just one compact reference text. It will enable them to get introduced to the topic, to understand how information on lithium is gathered and interpreted, and what is expected to be learnt from upcoming ground-based facilities such as the Extremely Large Telescope and the Vera Rubin LSST, and space missions such as Euclid, WFIRST and PLATO.
The book will take the reader from basic introductory concepts, through historical developments and into solid presentation of results and advanced discussion of research issues and lingering open questions. Featured topics include the determination of the lithium abundance in the Sun and the Solar System, the solar lithium problem, lithium abundances in the oldest stars of the Milky Way, and how they compare with predictions from Big Bang nucleosynthesis in the standard cosmology model. Exoplanets are also a recent addition to scientific endeavour, with an intriguing possibility of the enrichment of lithium by ingestion of planets accreting onto the star. Concrete examples of this process will be covered in this topic, and connections will be made to the lithium enrichment and depletion processes described in previous chapters.
