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Title

From stars to galaxies : building the pieces to build up the universe : proceedings of a workshop held at istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy, 16-20 October, 2006 / edited by Antonella Vallenari [and others].

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Leitherer, Claus.
• Fritze-von Alvensleben, Uta.
• Huchra, John P.

Description

[xxiii], 512 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 374

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 374.

Subjects

• Galaxies > Formation > Congresses
• Stars > Evolution > Congresses
• Galaxies > Evolution > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Pt. I. The First Stars, Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis -- Primordial Stars / A. Weiss -- Stellar Evolution with Rotation: Toward the First Stars / A. Maeder, G. Meynet and S. Ekstrom -- Where do Metal-free Stars and their Products End Up in our Galaxy? / D. Kawata, E. Scannapieco, C. B. Brook, A. Ferrara, B. K. Gibson, H. Martel and R. Schneider -- Turbulent Convection in Stars: Some Recent Advances / P. Demarque, F. J. Robinson and C. W. Straka -- Population Synthesis Models with AGB Stars / P. Marigo and L. Girardi -- Isochrones for an Extended Region of the Z-Y Plane Including New Asymptotic Giant Branch Models / G. Bertelli, L. Girardi, E. Nasi, P. Marigo and F. Castelli -- Pulsation and Mass Loss in Red Giant Stars / P. R. Wood -- The Physics and Astrophysics of Type Ia Supernova Explosions / W. Hillebrandt and F. K. Ropke -- Massive Stars as Progenitors of Supernovae and GRBs / N. Langer, A. J. van Marie, A. J. T. Poelarends and S. C. Yoon -- Effective Temperatures, Bolometric Luminosities and Angular Diameters for Low Main Sequence Stars / L. Casagrande -- Galactic Chemical Enrichment Ratio [Delta]Y / [Delta]Z from a Sample of Nearby K Dwarfs / L. Casagrande -- S(E)-Factor for (p, [alpha]) Induced Reactions on [superscript 11, 10]B / L. Lamia, R. G. Pizzone, S. M. R. Puglia, S. Romano, N. Carlin, S. Cherubini and V. Crucilla -- Supernovae Precursor Stars in the Interval of 23 to 33 Solar Masses and their Circumstellar Media / B. Perez-Rendon, G. Garcia-Segura and N. Langer -- CCD Photometry of the Distant Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 2419 / V. Ripepi, C. Greco, G. Clementini, M. Di Criscienzo, M. Dall'Ora, L. Federici and I. Musella -- Pt. II. Chemical Evolution of Galaxies -- On the Primordial Helium Abundance and the [Delta]Y / [Delta]O Ratio / M. Peimbert, V. Luridiana, A. Peimbert and L. Carigi -- Chemical Evolution and Abundance Ratios in Different Types of Galaxies / F. Matteucci -- Toward a Galaxian Luminosity-Metallicity Relation Spanning Ten Magnitudes / I. Saviane, F. Bresolin and J. Salzer -- On the Deduction of Galactic Abundances with Evolutionary Neural Networks / M. Taylor and A. I. Diaz -- Abundances in the Most Metal Poor Stars: Nucleosynthesis in the Early Milky Way / V. Hill and M. Spite / The First Stars collaboration -- Lithium Isotopic Abundances in the Early Galaxy / M. Asplund -- Metal Enrichment in the Earliest Phases of the Universe: The Very Metal-poor Halo Stars / C. Chiappini -- The Role of the IMF in Modelling Clusters of Galaxies / L. Portinari -- Spectroscopy of Circumnuclear Star Forming Regions in Early Type Spirals / M. V. Cardaci, G. F. Hagele, A. I. Diaz, B. Terlevich, R. Terlevich and M. Castellanos -- Inhomogeneous Galactic Halo: A Possible Explanation for the Spread Observed in s- and r- Process Elements / G. Cescutti -- Discrepant Gradients in Oxygen from Planetary Nebulae and HII Regions Across the Galactic Disk: Can Radial Flows of Gas Reconcile Them? / C. Chiosi and M. Perinotto -- Effects of the Temperature Structure on the Derivation of Abundances in HIT Galaxies / G. F. Hagele, E. Perez-Montero and A. I. Diaz -- Pt. III. Stars as Building Blocks of Galaxies I. The Milky Way -- Abundances in Globular Clusters / R. G. Gratton -- The First Stages of the Evolution of Globular Clusters / F. D'Antona, P. Ventura and V. Caloi -- Nuclei in Globular Clusters - A Long-Standing Problem Revisited / C. Charbonnel, T. Decressin, G. Meynet, N. Prantzos and S. Ekstrom -- The Abundance Gradient in Galactic H II Regions / R. T. Rood, C. Quireza, T. M. Bania, D. S. Balser and W. J. Maciel -- Old Open Clusters as Probes of the Galactic Disk: The BOCCE Sample / A. Bragaglia and M. Tosi -- The Nature of the Metal-Rich Thick Disk / T. Bensby, A. R. Zenn, M. S. Oey and S. Feltzing -- Do Maser Stars Trace a Rotating Galactic Bar? / H. J. Habing -- The Galactic Bulge Mira Population / J. A. D. L. Blommaert and M. A. T. Groenewegen -- The Origin of the Virgo Stellar Over-density: A Tidal Debris from the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy? / D. Martinez-Delgado, J. Penarrubia, M. Juric and E. J. Alfaro -- The Structure of the Galactic Bulge / S. Ragaini, A. Vallenari, C. Chiosi, G. Bertelli and L. Schmidtobreick -- A Search for New Planetary Nebulae Located at Large Galactocentric Distances / A. Mampaso, K. Viironen, R. L. M. Corradi, J. E. Drew, R. Greimel and L. Sabin / The IPHAS Collaboration -- Comparison of GAIA and RAVE Spectroscopic Atmospheric Analysis with Orbital Solution of Eclipsing Binaries / R. Sordo, U. Munari and T. Zwitter -- Radial Velocities and Atmospheric Parameters of Field Stars Suitable for RAVE Tests / M. Valentini and U. Munari -- ARCS: the Asiago Red Clump Spectroscopic Survey / M. Valentini, R. Barbon, U. Munari, M. Fiorucci and A. Siviero -- Pt. IV. Stars as Building Blocks of Galaxies II. The Local Group and Beyond -- The Outer Galaxy: Stellar Populations and Dark Matter / G. Gilmore -- The Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies Around the Milky Way / E. Tolstoy, G. Battagiia, A. Helmi, M. J. Irwin and V. Hill -- Star Formation Histories of Resolved Stellar Populations: In and Beyond the Local Group / M. Tosi -- Clusters and Field Star Formation History in the Small Magellanic Cloud / A. Vallenari -- The Structure and Content of Galaxy Outskirts / A. M. N. Ferguson -- The Stellar Populations of dE Galaxies in Nearby Groups / G. S. Da Costa -- Old Main-Sequence Turnoff Photometry of Isolated Local Group Dwarf Galaxies: First Results of the LCID Project / C. Gallart, M. Monelli, A. Dolphin, E. Bernard, I. Drozdovsky, A. Aparicio and S. Cassisi -- Evolved Stellar Populations in Nearby Galaxies: The Near-Infrared Perspective / E. V. Held, M. Gullieuszik, L. Rizzi, I. Saviane, S. Ortolani and V. Momany -- Planar Distribution of Galaxies in the Local Group / S. Pasetto and C. Chiosi -- Kinematic Modelling of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy / G. Battaglia, A. Helmi, E. Tolstoy and M. J. Irwin -- Three SMC clusters: NGC 265, K 29 and NGC 290 / E. Chiosi and A. Vallenari -- The Double-Barred Galaxy NGC 357: Kinematics and Stellar Populations / A. de Lorenzo-Caceres, A. Vazdekis and J. A. L. Aguerri -- The Continuous Star Formation History of a Giant HII Region in M101 / R. Garcia-Benito, E. Perez-Montero and A. I. Diaz -- Kinematics of the Stellar Populations of M33 / M. Hood, T. Smecker-Hane, M. Teig, A. M. N. Ferguson and M. J. Irwin -- Separating M33 Red Giants From Foreground MW Dwarf / M. Trig, T. Smecker-Hane and M. Hood -- Surface Photometry of UGC 5889 / L. Schmidtobreick, I. Saviane and A. Vallenari -- Building Galaxies from Clusters: LMC/SMC Clusters as Templates for Empirical Near-Infrared Modelling of the Stellar Populations in Star-Forming Galaxies / V. D. Ivanov, S. Ryder and A. Alonso-Herrero -- Hints of the Star Formation History in a SMC Field / N. E. D. Noel, C. Gallart, A. Aparicio, S. Hidalgo, E. Costa and R. A. Mendez -- Supersoft X-ray Sources in the Local Group / M. Orio -- The Stellar Populations of Halo Substructure Along the Major Axis of Andromeda / J. C. Richardson, A. M. N. Ferguson, R. A. Johnson and D. C. Faria -- Infrared Observations of Extragalactic Young Massive Clusters / L. Vanzi, G. Cresci, A. Scatarzi, R. Maiolino, M. Sauvage, R. Cabanac and M. Sterzik -- Pt. V. Population Synthesis -- Stellar Populations: High Spectral Resolution Libraries. Improved TP-AGB Treatment / G. Bruzual -- Late Stages of Stellar Evolution and their Impact on Spectrophotometric Properties of Galaxies / A. Buzzoni -- Synthetic Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Indices in Stars / M. Chavez, L. H. Rodriguez-Merino, E. Bertone, A. Buzzoni and A. Bressan -- Interstellar Medium, Dust and Extinction / G. Barbaro and P. Mazzei -- Early Type Galaxies in the Mid Infrared / A. Bressan, P. Panuzzo, L. Silva, L. Buson, M. Clemens, G. L. Granato, R. Rampazzo, J. R. Valdes and O. Vega -- Reconstructing Star Formation Histories of Galaxies / U. Fritze V. Alvensleben and T. Lilly --
• Star Formation History of Distant Galaxies / G. Worthey -- Effects of Dust on the Galactic Spectral Energy Distributions / L. Piovan, R. Tantalo and C. Chiosi -- New Roads for Understanding the Stellar Populations in Early-Type Galaxies / A. Vazdekis, J. L. Cervantes-Rodriguez, C. Carretero and A. de Lorenzo-Caceres -- Constraining Star Formation in Old Stellar Populations from Theoretical Spectra / R. C. Peterson -- New Response Functions for Absorption-Line Indices from High-Resolution Spectra / R. Tantalo, C. Chiosi and L. Piovan -- Ages and Metallicities of Extragalactic Globular Clusters from Spectral Line Indices: M104 / A. Moretti -- The Impacts of Horizontal-Branch on the Population Synthesis of Old Stellar Systems / Y. W. Lee -- Testing Simple Stellar Population Models Using Open Clusters / L. Deng and Y. Xin -- From Deterministic to Probabilistic Population Synthesis / V. Luridiana and M. Cervino -- Theoretical Mid-UV Spectroscopic Indices for Evolved Stellar Populations / E. Bertone, A. Buzzoni, M. Chavez and L. H. Rodriguez-Merino -- SBF: Multi-Wavelength Data and Models / M. Cantiello, G. Raimondo, J. P. Blakeslee, E. Brocato and M. Capaccioli -- Simulating CCD Images of Elliptical Galaxies / M. Cantiello, G. Raimondo, E. Brocato, J. P. Blakeslee and M. Capaccioli -- An Optimized H[subscript [beta]] Index for Disentangling Stellar Clusters and Galaxy Ages / J. L. Cervantes-Rodriguez and A. Vazdekis -- Progress Report: Probabilistic and Statistical Bases of Surface Brightness Fluctuations / M. Cervino, V. Luridiana and L. Jamet -- Hubble's Next Generation Spectral Library (NGSL) / S. R. Heap and D. J. Lindler -- A Theoretical Simulation for Star Formation History Recovery from Galaxy Spectra / G. Magris, G. Bruzual and J. Mateu -- Pt. VI. Galaxy Formation and Cosmology -- The Hubble Sequence / A. Dressler -- Tidal Dwarf Galaxies: from Gas to Stars to Galaxies / J. Braine -- Cusp-Core Problem on Galaxy Scale / L. Secco, R. Caimmi, M. D'Onofrio and D. Bindoni -- On the Formation and Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies / C. Chiosi -- The Ages of Early-Type Galaxies at z [is similar to] 1 / S. di Serego Alighieri, A. Bressan and L. Pozzetti -- Spontaneous and Stimulated Star Formation in Galaxies: Ultraviolet Limits on Star Formation Thresholds and Optical Constraints on [Lambda]-CDM Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation / B. F. Madore, S. Boissier, A. Gil de Paz, E. Nelson and K. Petrillo -- GALEX UV-derived Star Formation History of Elliptical Galaxies / S. K. Yi, S. Kaviraj, K. Schawinski and S. Khochfar / The GALEX Team -- Stellar Populations in Field Early-Type Galaxies / F. Annibali, A. Bressan, R. Rampazzo, W. Zeilinger and L. Danese -- Supernova Feedback and the Formation of Disk Galaxies / C. Scannapieco, P. B. Tissera, S. D. M. White and V. Springel -- The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: Science Highlights / S. P. Driver, J. Liske and A. W. Graham -- The Core Fundamental Plane of B2 Radio Galaxies / D. Bettoni, R. Falomo, P. Parma, R. Fanti and H. de Ruiter -- Cusp-Core Problem in the Clausius Virial Dynamical Theory of Fundamental Plane / D. Bindoni, L. Secco, R. Caimmi and M. D'Onofrio -- Study of ISM Tracers in Galaxies / V. Casasola, L. Piovan, G. Galletta, D. Bettoni and E. Merlin -- Photometric Properties of Early-Type Galaxies from Simulations / S. Chinellato, R. Tantalo and C. Chiosi -- MORPHOT: a Tool for Automatic Galaxy Morphology in Wide and/or Deep Fields / G. Fasano and E. Vanzella / The WINGS team -- The Baryonic Bar and the Triaxiality of the Dark Matter Halo / P. Mazzei and A. Curir -- Simulating the Formation and Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies: Multi-phase treatment of the ISM, Star Formation and Feedback / E. Merlin and C. Chiosi -- Imaging Linear Polarimetry of Galaxies Members of Interacting Pairs / R. Rampazzo, C. Bonoli and E. Giro -- GALEX Observations of the Look-back Time Evolution of the UV Upturn Phenomenon / C. H. Ree, Y. W. Lee, S. K. Yi and S. J. Yoon / The GALEX Science Team -- The Clausius Virial and the Energy Conservation Paradigm / T. Valentinuzzi -- VESPA: Recovering the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies / R. Tojeiro.

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• 9781583813096
• 1583813098
• 9781583813102
• 1583813101

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• ocn184939674
• 184939674
• SCSB-5382932

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