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The Origin of the Galaxy and Local Group

Saas-Fee Advanced Course 37 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

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Authors:
  1. Joss Bland-Hawthorn

    1. Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Kenneth Freeman

    1. Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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  3. Francesca Matteucci

    1. Astronomy Department, Trieste University Osservatorio Astronomico (INAF), Trieste, Italy

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Editors:
  1. Ben Moore

    1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  • 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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Table of contents (2 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Near Field Cosmology: The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group

    • Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Kenneth Freeman
    Pages 1-144

  3. Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way and Its Satellites

    • Francesca Matteucci
    Pages 145-228

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 229-231
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About this book

This volume contains the updated and expanded lecture notes of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course organised by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed. Joss Bland-Hawthorn & Ken Freeman lectured on Near Field Cosmology - The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group. Francesca Matteucci’s chapter is on Chemical evolution of the Milky Way and its Satellites. As designed by the SSAA, books in this series – and this one too – are targeted at graduate and PhD students and young researchers in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Lecturers and researchers entering the field will also benefit from the book.

Authors, Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Ben Moore

  • Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Joss Bland-Hawthorn

  • Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Kenneth Freeman

  • Astronomy Department, Trieste University Osservatorio Astronomico (INAF), Trieste, Italy

    Francesca Matteucci

About the editor

Joss Bland-Hawthorn holds the Federation Fellow Professorship at the Institute of Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney. He is doing research on near-field and far-field cosmology and is also working in instrument science. Kenneth Charles Freeman is Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra. His research interests are in the formation and dynamics of galaxies and globular clusters. He received several international awards. 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: 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

  • Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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