Old Stellar Populations : How to Study the Fossil Record of Galaxy Formation /: How to Study the Fossil Record of Galaxy Formation. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Santi Cassisi and Maurizio Salaris.
• Authors: Cassisi, Santi; Salaris, Maurizio
• Contents: 1.1 Galaxy Formation; 1.2 Decoding the Fossil Records: Photometric and Spectroscopic Diagnostics; 1.3 Decoding the Fossil Record: the Tools; 2 Low-Mass Star Physics; 2.1 Basic Equations; 2.2 The Thermodynamical Properties of Low-Mass Stars; 2.3 Nuclear Energy Production and Nucleosynthesis; 2.4 Radiative and Conductive Opacity; 2.5 The Atmospheric Structure; 2.6 Mass Loss; 2.7 Diffusion Processes; 2.8 Rotation; 2.9 Internal Gravity Waves; 2.10 Magnetic Fields; 2.11 Thermohaline Mixing. 3 From the Main Sequence to the Tip of the Red Giant Branch3.1 Overview; 3.2 Very Low-Mass Stars; 3.3 The Main Sequence; 3.4 The Standard Solar Model; 3.5 Blue Stragglers; 3.6 Subgiant Branch Evolution; 3.7 Red Giant Branch Evolution; 3.8 The Helium Flash; 3.9 Theoretical Isochrones for the Hydrogen Burning Stages; 4 Horizontal Branch and Red Clump; 4.1 Overview; 4.2 Mixing Processes; 4.3 The Horizontal Branch Evolution; 4.4 Extremely Hot Horizontal Branch and "Blue Hook" Stars; 4.5 Low-Mass Pulsating Stars in the Core He-burning Stage; 4.6 Red Clump Stars. 4.7 The Effects of Non-canonical Processes on HB Evolution5 Asymptotic Giant Branch; 5.1 Overview; 5.2 Early Asymptotic Giant Branch Evolution; 5.3 The Thermally Pulsing Stage; 5.4 Calibration of Evolutionary AGB Models; 5.5 Synthetic AGB Stellar Models; 5.6 Long Period Variables; 5.7 Nucleocosmochronology; 5.8 The End of the AGB and Post-AGB Evolution; 6 White Dwarf Cooling Sequences; 6.1 General Properties and Simple Models; 6.2 Detailed Models; 6.3 Colour-Magnitude Diagrams of WD Populations; 6.4 Spectroscopic Classification of WDs; 6.5 Low Mass CO- and He-core WDs. 7 Resolved Old Stellar Populations in the Galaxy7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Old Star Cluster Distances; 7.3 Old Star Cluster Ages; 7.4 Ages of Old Field Stars from Photometry/Spectroscopy; 7.5 Empirical Rotation/Activity-Age Relationships; 7.6 Estimates of the Primordial Helium Abundance; 7.7 Estimates of the Primordial Lithium Abundance; 7.8 Multiple Stellar Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters; 8 Resolved Composite Systems; 8.1 Synthetic CMD-fitting; 8.2 Multiple Isochrone-fitting; 9 Unresolved Old Systems; 9.1 Building Blocks of a SPSM; 9.2 Low-Resolution Diagnostics. 9.3 High-Resolution Diagnostics9.4 Unresolved Composite Systems; 9.5 Validation of Stellar Population Synthesis Techniques.
• Publisher Details: Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 521 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 523.88; Stars -- Evolution; Stars -- Populations; Galaxies -- Evolution; SCIENCE -- Astronomy; Galaxies -- Evolution; Stars -- Evolution; Stars -- Populations; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783527665525; 3527665528; 9783527665518; 3527665544; 9783527665549; 3527665536; 9783527665532; 9781299633766; 1299633765
• Related ISBNs: 352766551X; 9783527410767; 3527410767; 9783527410590; 3527410597; 9783527665549; 9783527665532; 9783527665518
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-516) and index.; Note: Online resource (Wiley, viewed June 26, 2018).
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