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  • © 2012

Red Giants as Probes of the Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way

  • Proceedings of a specialized workshop
  • Presents the forefront of research on pulsation and internal structure of red giant stars and implications to our understanding of the Milky Way
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (ASSSP)

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Asteroseismology of Red Giants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Asteroseismology of red giants

    1. Adiabatic Solar-Like Oscillations in Red Giant Stars

      • Josefina Montalbán, Andrea Miglio, Arlette Noels, Richard Scuflaire, Paolo Ventura, Francesca D’Antona
      Pages 23-32
    2. Energetic Aspects of Non-Radial Solar-Like Oscillations in Red Giants

      • Marc-Antoine Dupret, Kévin Belkacem
      Pages 33-42
  4. Internal Structure, Atmosphere, and Evolution of Red Giants: Current Models and Their Uncertainties

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
  5. Internal structure, atmosphere, and evolution of red giants: current models and their uncertainties

    1. Evolution and Internal Structure of Red Giants

      • Maurizio Salaris
      Pages 45-56
    2. Convection Modelling and the Morphology of RGBs in Stellar Clusters

      • Paolo Ventura, Roberta Carini, Marcella Di Criscienzo
      Pages 69-76
    3. Helium Burning in Moderate-Mass Stars

      • Achim Weiss
      Pages 77-86
    4. Hydrodynamic Simulations of Shell Convection in Stellar Cores

      • Miroslav Mocák, Ewald Müller, Lionel Siess
      Pages 87-93
    5. Impact of Rotational Mixing on the Global and Asteroseismic Properties of Red Giants

      • Patrick Eggenberger, Nadège Lagarde, Corinne Charbonnel
      Pages 95-103
    6. Effects of Rotation and Thermohaline Mixing in Red Giant Stars

      • Corinne Charbonnel, Nadège Lagarde, Patrick Eggenberger
      Pages 115-123
    7. 3D Model Atmospheres of Red Giant Stars

      • Hans-Günter Ludwig, Matthias Steffen
      Pages 125-133
  6. Stellar Populations in the Milky Way

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
  7. Stellar populations in the Milky Way

    1. Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way

      • Ken Freeman
      Pages 137-146
    2. Chemical Abundances of Giants in Globular Clusters

      • Raffaele G. Gratton, Angela Bragaglia, Eugenio Carretta, Valentina D’Orazi, Sara Lucatello
      Pages 155-164

About this book

Exciting results are blooming, thanks to a convergence between unprecedented asteroseismic data obtained by the satellites CoRoT and KEPLER, and state-of-the-art models of the internal structure of red giants and of galactic evolution. The pulsation properties now available for thousands of red giants promise to add valuable and independent constraints to current models of structure and evolution of our galaxy. Such a close connection between these domains opens a new very promising gate in our understanding of stars and galaxies. In this book international leaders in the field offer a wide perspective of the recent advancements in:

  • Asteroseismology of red giants
  • Models of the atmosphere, internal structure, and evolution of red giants
  • Stellar population synthesis and models of the Milky Way

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Inst. d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Andrea Miglio, Josefina Montalbán, Arlette Noels

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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