Overview
- Offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed
- Chapters, representing the current state of the art in the exciting topic of Near Field Cosmology, based on lectures given by international leaders in their field
- Volume 37 in the famous series of Saas-Fee Advanced Courses held by the Swiss Society of Astrophysics and Astronomy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Saas-Fee Advanced Course (SAASFEE, volume 37)
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Book Title: The Origin of the Galaxy and Local Group
Book Subtitle: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 37 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
Authors: Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Kenneth Freeman, Francesca Matteucci
Editors: Ben Moore
Series Title: Saas-Fee Advanced Course
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41720-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-41719-1Published: 19 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52487-9Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-41720-7Published: 11 February 2014
Series ISSN: 1861-7980
Series E-ISSN: 1861-8227
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 231
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour