Research Catalog

Title

Stellar evolution at low metallicity : mass loss, explosions, cosmology : proceedings of a meeting held in Tartu, Estonia, 15-19 August 2005 / edited by Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers [and others].

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Lamers, Henny J. G. L. M., 1941-

Description

xx, 430 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 353

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 353.

Subjects

• Stars > Evolution > Congresses
• Supergiant stars > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via the World Wide Web.

Contents

Mass loss from massive stars - what we don't know / H. J. G. L. M. Lamers -- Massive star evolution at low metallicity - what we don't know / N. Langer -- Massive stars in the SMC / D. J. Lennon, C. J. Evans and C. Trundle -- VLT-FLAMES observations of young stellar clusters in the Magellanic Clouds / C. J. Evans, D. J. Lennon and S. J. Smartt -- Evolution of rotating stars at very low metallicity / G. Meynet, R. Hirschi, S. Ekstrom and A. Maeder -- Evolution of gamma-ray burst progenitors at low metallicity / S.-C. Yoon and N. Langer -- The luminous blue variable phase - do low metallicity stars go through it? / K. Weis -- The role of non-gray model atmospheres in the evolution of low mass metal poor stars / G. J. Harris, A. E. Lynas-Gray, J. Tennyson and S. Miller -- Testing binary evolution at SMC metallicity / S. E. de Mink and O. R. Pols -- The observed metallicity dependence of the mass loss of O and early-B stars / A. de Koter -- Massive star feedback - from the first stars to the present / J. S. Vink -- SMC B-type supergiants : stellar winds in a low metallicity environment / C. Trundle, D. J. Lennon, J. Puls, P. L. Dufton and C. J. Evans -- Mass loss from massive zero-metallicity stars / J. Krticka and J. Kubat -- Effects of rotation on mass loss for population III stars / S. Ekstrom, G. Meynet and A. Maeder -- NLTE wind models for SMC stars / J. Krticka -- On the peculiarities of evolutionary history of EHB objects in binary systems with hot subdwarf companions / V.-V. Pustynski and I. Pustylnik -- Observed metallicity dependence of winds from WR stars / P. A. Crowther -- The metallicity dependence of WR wind models / G. Grafener and W.-R. Hamann -- The galactic WN stars : line-blanketed analyses versus evolutionary models / W.-R. Hamann, G. Grafener and A. Liermann -- Optically thick wind models of WNE stars : the dependence of mass loss on metallicity / T. Nurgis -- The Wolf-Rayet hydrogen puzzle - an observational point of view / C. Foellmi, S. V. Marchenko and A. F. J. Moffat -- Observational evidences for the dependence of WNE-star mass loss on metallicity / T. Nugis, K. Annuk and A. Hirv -- On the metallicity dependence of the winds from red super-giants and asymptotic giant branch stars / J. Th. van Loon -- Circumstellar dust in the large Magellanic Cloud / C. Dijkstra, A. K. Speck, R. B. Reid, C. Markwick-Kemper and J. Leisenring -- Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars - effects of binary evolution at low metallicity / O. R. Pols and R. G. Izzard -- Spitzer mid-IR spectroscopy of Wolf-Rayet stars : the frequent detection of circumstellar dust / A. Baniske, L. Oskinova, W.-R. Hamann and G. Grafener -- Wolf-Rayet stars of the carbon sequence / A. Barniske, W.-R. Hamann and G. Grafener -- LBVs in M33 : their environments and ages / B. Burggraf, K. Weis and D. J. Bomans -- How extreme are the WR clusters in NGC 3125? / L. J. Hadfield and P. A. Crowther -- The lowest metallicities : what do they tell us? / M. S. Oey -- Formation of the first- and second-generation stars / K. Omukai -- The most metal-poor stars of the galaxy : surveys, abundances, and implications / N. Christlieb -- The early generations of low-metallicity stars / V. Bromm -- Dust production in the high-redshift universe / S. V. Marchenko -- Investigating zero-metallicity low mass stars / H. B. Lau and C. A. Tout -- The role of primordial (possibly massive) stars in reionization / B. Ciardi -- The end of the dark age and the formation of the structure of the universe / J. Einasto and E. Saar -- Gamma ray bursts from proto-globular clusters? / H. Zinnecker -- Low metallicity galaxies at low redshifts / Y. I. Izotov -- Low (and high) metallicity galaxies at high redshift / M. Pettini -- Stellar feedback in dwarf galaxies : the case of IC 5152 / D. J. Bomans -- Light-cone simulations : evolution of dark matter haloes / P. Heinamaki, I. Suhhonenko, E. Saar, M. Einasto, J. Einasto and H. Virtanen -- Gaia and metal-poor stars / B. Gustafsson -- Estimation of stellar astrophysical parameters with the Gaia baseline photometric system / V. Malyuto -- The Planck mission and beyond / P. Heinamaki -- Concluding remarks : the ingredients for understanding the first stars in the universe / A. Maeder.

ISBN

• 9781583812211
• 1583812210

LCCN

2006930238

OCLC

• ocm85775396
• 85775396
• SCSB-5319219

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