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- Educates graduate students and young researchers to start their own research in the field
- Outlines theoretical models of chemical evolution of galaxies and compares them with observational results
- Treats all main aspects of chemical evolution of galaxies in a didactical and logical order
- Author with great expertise and strong reputation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library (AAL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The term “chemical evolution of galaxies” refers to the evolution of abundances of chemical species in galaxies, which is due to nuclear processes occurring in stars and to gas flows into and out of galaxies.
This book deals with the chemical evolution of galaxies of all morphological types (ellipticals, spirals and irregulars) and stresses the importance of the star formation histories in determining the properties of stellar populations in different galaxies. The topic is approached in a didactical and logical manner via galaxy evolution models which are compared with observational results obtained in the last two decades: The reader is given an introduction to the concept of chemical abundances and learns about the main stellar populations in our Galaxy as well as about the classification of galaxy types and their main observables. In the core of the book, the construction and solution of chemical evolution models are discussed in detail, followed by descriptions and interpretations of observations of the chemical evolution of the Milky Way, spheroidal galaxies, irregular galaxies and of cosmic chemical evolution.
The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to students as well as to amend our present ideas in research; the book also summarizes the efforts made by authors in the past several years in order to further future research in the field.
Reviews
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“In order to evolve a galaxy, you must choose a mass of gas; decide on a prescription for turning it into stars … . Matteucci’s book explains … how to do all these things, ending with a discussion of cosmic chemical evolution … . anyone wanting to get up to speed quickly on the topic should find the book very useful. It is mercifully short and has lots of nice figures comparing models and data for abundance gradients, correlations of various elements, and so forth.” (Virginia Trimble, The Observatory, Vol. 132 (1229), August, 2012)Authors and Affiliations
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Dipto. Astronomia, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Francesca Matteucci
About the author
Francesca Matteucci is associate professor at the University of Trieste, Italy, where she teaches Stellar Physics. Her field of research is the chemical evolution of galaxies of different morphological type, supernova rates and supernova progenitors.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
Authors: Francesca Matteucci
Series Title: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22491-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-22490-4Published: 05 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43005-3Published: 23 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-22491-1Published: 05 January 2012
Series ISSN: 0941-7834
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9698
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 226