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Stellar Populations: A User Guide from Low to High Redshift [Kõva köide]

(Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova), (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)
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  • Kirjastus: Blackwell Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3527409181
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 317 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 249x178x20 mm, kaal: 735 g
  • Sari: Wiley Series in Cosmology
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Sep-2011
  • Kirjastus: Blackwell Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3527409181
  • ISBN-13: 9783527409181
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This only up-to-date reference on stellar populations and development models includes coverage of distant galaxies, chemical evolution and supernovae. Written by highly acclaimed authorities in the field, the text makes use of specific problems to reveal the "kitchen secrets".
Preface ix
Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii
Color Plates xv
1 Firm and Less Firm Outcomes of Stellar Evolution Theory
1(34)
1.1 A Brief Journey through Stellar Evolution
1(17)
1.1.1 A 9 M Star
1(7)
1.1.2 The Evolution of Stars with Solar Composition
8(4)
1.1.3 Dependence on Initial Chemical Composition
12(3)
1.1.4 The Asymptotic Giant Branch Phase
15(3)
1.2 Strengths and Weaknesses of Stellar Evolutionary Models
18(13)
1.2.1 Microphysics
19(1)
1.2.2 Macrophysics
20(11)
1.3 The Initial Mass-Final Mass Relation
31(4)
2 The Fundamentals of Evolutionary Population Synthesis
35(26)
2.1 The Stellar Evolution Clock
35(3)
2.2 The Evolutionary Flux
38(1)
2.3 The Fuel Consumption Theorem
39(3)
2.4 Fuel Consumptions
42(4)
2.5 Population Synthesis Using Isochrones
46(1)
2.6 The Luminosity Evolution of Stellar Populations
47(2)
2.7 The Specific Evolutionary Flux
49(2)
2.8 The IMF Scale Factor
51(1)
2.9 Total and Specific Rates of Mass Return
52(4)
2.10 Mass and Mass-to-Light Ratio
56(1)
2.11 IMF-Dependent and IMF-Independent Quantities
57(1)
2.12 The Age-Metallicity Degeneracy
58(3)
3 Resolving Stellar Populations
61(16)
3.1 The Stellar Populations of Pixels and Frames
61(7)
3.1.1 The Stellar Population of a Frame
61(3)
3.1.2 The Stellar Population of a Pixel
64(4)
3.2 Simulated Observations and Their Reduction
68(9)
4 Age Dating Resolved Stellar Populations
77(36)
4.1 Globular Cluster Ages
77(6)
4.1.1 Absolute and Relative Globular Cluster Ages
78(2)
4.1.2 Globular Clusters with Multiple Populations
80(3)
4.2 The Age of the Galactic Bulge
83(3)
4.3 Globular Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds
86(2)
4.4 Stellar Ages of the M31 Spheroid
88(4)
4.4.1 The Bulge of M31
88(2)
4.4.2 The M31 Halo and Giant Stream
90(2)
4.5 The Star Formation Histories of Resolved Galaxies
92(21)
4.5.1 The Mass-Specific Production
93(5)
4.5.2 Decoding the CMD
98(4)
4.5.3 The Specific Production Method
102(2)
4.5.4 The Synthetic CMD Method
104(2)
4.5.5 An Example: the Stellar Population in the Halo of the Centaurus A Galaxy
106(7)
5 The Evolutionary Synthesis of Stellar Populations
113(20)
5.1 Simple Stellar Populations
113(2)
5.2 Spectral Libraries
115(1)
5.2.1 Empirical Spectral Libraries
115(1)
5.2.2 Model Atmosphere Libraries
116(1)
5.3 Composite Stellar Populations
116(2)
5.4 Evolving Spectra
118(15)
5.4.1 The Spectral Evolution of a SSP
118(3)
5.4.2 The Spectral Evolution of Composite Stellar Populations
121(7)
5.4.3 There Are Also Binaries
128(5)
6 Stellar Population Diagnostics of Galaxies
133(38)
6.1 Measuring Star Formation Rates
133(7)
6.1.1 The SFR from the Ultraviolet Continuum
134(2)
6.1.2 The SFR from the Far-Infrared Luminosity
136(1)
6.1.3 The SFR from Optical Emission Lines
137(1)
6.1.4 The SFR from the Soft X-ray Luminosity
138(1)
6.1.5 The SFR from the Radio Luminosity
139(1)
6.2 Measuring the Stellar Mass of Galaxies
140(3)
6.3 Age and Metallicity Diagnostics
143(10)
6.3.1 Star-Forming Galaxies
143(2)
6.3.2 Quenched Galaxies
145(8)
6.4 Star-Forming and Quenched Galaxies through Cosmic Times
153(18)
6.4.1 The Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies
155(8)
6.4.2 The Mass and Environment of Quenched Galaxies
163(1)
6.4.3 Mass Functions
164(7)
7 Supernovae
171(36)
7.1 Observed SN Rates
173(2)
7.2 Core Collapse SNe
175(9)
7.2.1 Theoretical Rates
176(3)
7.2.2 Nucleosynthetic Yields
179(5)
7.3 Thermonuclear Supernovae
184(18)
7.3.1 Evolutionary Scenarios for SNIa Progenitors
185(2)
7.3.2 The Distribution of Delay Times
187(1)
7.3.3 The SD Channel
188(3)
7.3.4 The DD Channel
191(6)
7.3.5 Constraining the DTD and the SNIa Productivity
197(4)
7.3.6 SNIa Yields
201(1)
7.4 The Relative Role of Core Collapse and Thermonuclear Supernovae
202(5)
8 The IMF from Low to High Redshift
207(12)
8.1 How the IMF Affects Stellar Demography
208(3)
8.2 The M/L Ratio of Elliptical Galaxies and the IMF Slope below 1 M
211(2)
8.3 The Redshift Evolution of the M/L Ratio of Cluster Ellipticals and the IMF Slope between ~ 1 and ~ 1.4M
213(1)
8.4 The Metal Content of Galaxy Clusters and the IMF Slope between ~ 1 and ~ 40 M, and Above
214(5)
9 Evolutionary Links Across Cosmic Time: an Empirical History of Galaxies
219(18)
9.1 The Growth and Overgrowth of Galaxies
221(3)
9.2 A Phenomenological Model of Galaxy Evolution
224(13)
9.2.1 How Mass Quenching Operates
225(2)
9.2.2 How Environmental Quenching Operates
227(2)
9.2.3 The Evolving Demography of Galaxies
229(3)
9.2.4 Caveats
232(2)
9.2.5 The Physics of Quenching
234(3)
10 The Chemical Evolution of Galaxies, Clusters, and the Whole Universe
237(24)
10.1 Clusters of Galaxies
237(13)
10.1.1 Iron in the Intracluster Medium and the Iron Mass-to-Light Ratio
238(6)
10.1.2 The Iron Share between ICM and Cluster Galaxies
244(1)
10.1.3 Elemental Ratios
245(2)
10.1.4 Metal Production: the Parent Stellar Populations
247(1)
10.1.5 Iron from SNIa
248(1)
10.1.6 Iron and Metals from Core Collapse SNe
249(1)
10.2 Metals from Galaxies to the ICM: Ejection versus Extraction
250(2)
10.3 Clusters versus Field and the Overall Metallicity of the Universe
252(2)
10.4 Clusters versus the Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way
254(7)
Index 261
Alvio Greggio held a professorship at the University of Bologna before he joined the European Southern Observatory (ESO) as Very Large Telescope program scientist, where he served until 2005; since then he is working at the National Institute of Astrophysics, INAF, in Italy. About 200 peer reviewed papers bear his name, making him one of the most cited scientists in his field.

Laura Greggio is Associate Astronomer at INAF. Her research focus is on stellar evolution and populations as well as supernovae.