Stellar Populations As Building Blocks Of Galaxies Iau S241

Author : Alexandre Vazdekis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521863506
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Download or read book Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies (IAU S241) written by Alexandre Vazdekis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stellar populations, the building blocks of galaxies, are direct tracers of a galaxy's star formation history, its chemical enrichment and the assembly of galaxies in the Universe. This last decade has witnessed a revolution in our observations of galaxies; with larger telescopes and new instruments allowing us to look deeper in the Universe, and to study nearby galaxies in greater detail. IAU Symposium 241 reports the considerable progress made in recent years in this topic. Theorists, observers, and researchers of resolved and unresolved stellar populations discuss the ingredients of stellar population models and compare them to new data, forcing theorists to develop more refined models and methods to derive the physical parameters of stellar populations. New results from the Milky Way, the Local Group, and nearby and distant galaxies are presented.

Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521863506
Total Pages : 628 pages
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Download or read book Stellar populations as building blocks of galaxies : proceedings of the 241th symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in La Palma, Tenerife, Spain, December 10-16, 2006 written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521764995
Total Pages : 606 pages
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Download or read book Star Clusters (IAU S266) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star clusters are important to many areas of astronomy, and as the basic building blocks of galaxies, they can be used as key diagnostic tools within a wide range of disciplines in astrophysics. Star cluster populations are powerful tracers of the formation, assembly and evolutionary history of their parent galaxies. Although their importance has been recognised for decades, only in recent years has this area seen a major investment in time and effort. IAU Symposium 266 consolidates the expertise of leading researchers from a variety of topical subfields in astrophysics, to provide a comprehensive presentation of cutting-edge developments in theory, observations and simulations of star clusters and star cluster systems across a range of sizes and epochs. This volume gives an account of this forefront research, answering fundamental questions that will improve our understanding of numerous related issues and show how this field will take its next major step forward.

Author : Alexandre Vazdekis
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Total Pages : 595 pages
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Download or read book Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies written by Alexandre Vazdekis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521764841
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Stellar Populations written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IAU Symposium 262 presents reviews on the current understanding of the theories of stellar evolution, galaxy formation and galaxy evolution. It emphasises what we have learned in the past few years from massive surveys covering large portions of the sky (e.g. SDSS, HDF, UDF, GOODS, COSMOS). Several critical aspects of research on stellar populations deserve further effort in order to be brought in tune with other areas of astrophysical research. The next ten years will see the opening of major observatories that will increase the quality and quantity of astronomical data by orders of magnitude. The expected benefits from these instruments for the study of stellar populations are explored. This critical review of state of the art observational and theoretical work will appeal to all those working on stellar populations, from distant galaxies to local resolved galaxies and galactic star clusters.

Author : Ian F. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521768313
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Twenty Seventh General Assembly Rio de Janeiro 2009 written by Ian F. Corbett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete record of the formal organisational and administrative proceedings of the XXVII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union.

Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521874670
Total Pages : 510 pages
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Download or read book Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges (IAU S245) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulges lie at the heart of most galaxies, the building blocks of our universe. With a selection of reviews and topical presentations, IAU Symposium 245 provides an up-to-date overview of our knowledge on galaxy bulges, and a concise introduction to all current research on the subject. The structure, dynamics, and stellar populations of galaxy bulges, both near and far, are analysed through state-of-the-art observations. The leading models for the formation and evolution of galaxy bulges are described in detail, and the constraints observations put on these are dissected. Particular emphasis is placed on exploring evidence for both hierarchical merging and secular processes. Special attention is also devoted to disentangling the complex web relating galaxy bulges and central supermassive black holes, and on the lessons learned from our exquisite knowledge of the bulge of our own Milky Way. This volume is the best one-stop reference on galaxy bulges currently available.

Author : B. Barbuy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401124355
Total Pages : 521 pages
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Download or read book The Stellar Populations of Galaxies written by B. Barbuy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One approach to learning about stellar populations is to study them at three different levels of resolution. First in our own Galaxy; secondly from nearby galaxies where stars can still be resolved; and thirdly in remote galaxies in which the stellar population can only be studied in integrated light. This IAU Symposium covered the entire range of galaxies in its study of their stellar populations. Interspersed with theoretical papers, the wealth of observational results provides an important state-of-the-art presentation of the progress that has been made in this field.

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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Low-metallicity Star Formation (IAU S255) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although low-mass metal-poor galaxies in the local universe have often been proposed as the 'primordial building blocks' in the hierarchical scenario of structure formation, several lines of evidence suggest that this may not be true. Moreover, it is not clear to what extent dwarf galaxies, because they are metal poor and because of their kinematics and structure, can tell us about how star formation proceeded in the early universe. This volume provides an overview and the most recent advances in this debate. IAU Symposium 255 presents the most up-to-date developments in six key areas, including: Population III and metal-free star formation; metal-enrichment, chemical evolution and feedback; explosive events in low-metallicity environments; dust and gas as seeds for metal-poor star formation; metal-poor initial mass functions, stellar evolution and star-formation histories; and low-metallicity star formation in the local universe. This overview is at a level suitable for research astronomers and graduate students.

Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521863445
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time (IAU S235) written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This last decade has witnessed a revolution in our observations of galaxies; in particular deep imaging with HST and spectroscopy with 10m-class ground-based telescopes have uncovered many objects that are difficult to place along the Hubble sequence. High resolution spectroscopy of extremely faint objects has enabled the study of the kinematic evolution and, hence, the mass assembly of galaxies to unprecedented look-back times for direct comparison with cosmological structure formation scenarios. Thus, it is now possible to study all three aspects of galaxy evolution - their morphological-dynamical, chemical and spectral evolution out to redshift larger than six, exploring more than 95% of the age of the universe. These Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 235 report the considerable progress made in recent years on galaxy formation and evolution, and look forward to the expected breakthroughs in the domain of remote galaxies, with ALMA, the ELT and the next generation space telescopes.