Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 768 g
Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 768 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-41475-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
In recent years there have been substantial advances in abundance analysis of stars, planetary nebulae and the interstellar medium due to improvements in instrumentation and in availability of basic atomic data which has led to increasing sophistication of models for the astrophysical light sources. These advances have enabled observers to make much more critical tests of the theory of Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis and of scenarios for galactic evolution than ever before. While there have been many books on cosmology and galactic and stellar evolution in which abundance analysis of astrophysical objects has played some part, this book is the first one for several years where specialists in the various relevant fields discuss the basis and implications of the subject as a whole. The subjects in this volume cover the particular interests of Professor B. E. J. Pagel, who has made substantial contributions in the course of a long career. The major aim of the book is to bring together the results from high redshift studies and Galactic studies in a coherent way, and to cover relevant aspects of nuclear and atomic physics.
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1. Introduction; 2. Cosmological nucleosynthesis; 3. Primordial nucleosynthesis; 4. Baryon inhomogeneous cosmologies and primordial nucleosynthesis of Li-Be-B; 5. The primordial abundancies of Li and Be; 6. Li and O in stellar populations of our galaxy; 7. Signatures of inhomogeneity in the early universe; 8. Nuclear data relevant to nucleosynthesis; 9. Theories of element synthesis in supernovae; 10. Nucleosynthesis in type I and II SN; 11. Nucleosynthesis in SNe II and a function of progenitor mass; 12. On the (O/Fe) vs (Fe/H) relationship at low metallicity; 13. Primordial lithium abundance from observations of SN 1987A; 14. Stellar opacities; 15. Data for absorption line analysis; 16. Precision spectroscopy and stellar parameters from absorption line systems; 17. Stellar abundance methods; 18. Observational effects of nucleosynthesis in evolved stars; 19. Updating solar abundances; 20. Abundance distribution in galactic stellar populations; 21. Stellar populations in other galaxies; 22. Abundancies, star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies; 23. Global heating of the ionized gas in NGC1068; 24. Observed nuclear abundance effects in Planetary nebulae; 25. Abundances in planetary nebulae in the magellanic clouds and galactic halo; 26. N/O ratios in planetary nebulae and central star masses; 27. Late decaying particles and the ionization of HI regions; 28. Photo-ionization models; 29. Observations of the NII 122 microns line; 30 Nebular abundances and the chemical evolution of galaxies; 31. Chemical evolution in nearby galaxies; 32. The most metal poor stars; 33. The mass-metallicity relation; 34. Extremely low metallicity galaxies; 35. Chemical evolution of high z galaxies; 36. S-process abundances in metal poor stars; 37. The chemical evolution of the light S-elements: yields from massive stars; 38. Abundance distribution in galactic stellar populations; 39. Abundance gradients in disk galaxies; 40. A diatribe on the chemical evolution of galaxies; 41. Chemical and dynamical evolution of galactic disks; 42. The interstellar medium at high and low redshifts; 43. Abundances in interstellar gas in galaxies in the field of QSOs; 44. QSO absorption line absorbers; 45. Metallicity measurements beyond z=o.3; 46. Resumé.
