The Evolution of The Milky Way [electronic resource] /

The Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way: Some Important Facts -- S/Á/Fe Abundance Ratios in Galactic Metal Poor Stars -- S/?/Abundance Ratios in Halo Field Stars: is there a Globular Cluster Connection? -- Early Galactic Evolution of Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen -- The Origin and Kinematical Evolution of SMR Stars -- Abundances in Supernovae -- Obser-vations of Candidate SMR Stars -- Planetary Nebulae: Abundances and Abundance Gradients -- Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Stellar Evolution and Populations -- Clump Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood -- Mixing Along the Red Giant Branch in Metal-Poor Field Stars -- The Metal Abundance of Galactic Cepheids as Derived from their Pulsational Properties -- Wolf-Rayet Stars, Binaries, Black Holes -- The Evolution of Binaries -- The Origin of X-Ray Pulsars in Binary Systems -- Metal Abundances in Globular Clusters -- On the Globular Cluster IMF below 1M® -- The Effect of CNO and Enhanced a-Elements on Globular Cluster Stars -- HST-UV Observations of Stellar Clusters: Looking for BSS -- HST-WFPC2 Photometry of the Globular Cluster NGC288•Binary Systems, Blue Stragglers and Very Blue Stars -- Infrared Observations of Stellar Clusters -- Can Mira Variables Tell us the Chemical Abundances in Stellar Systems? -- Abundances in Open Star Clusters: What we have to work with -- Galactic Globular Clusters Relative Ages:Clues on the Milky Way Early Evolution -- Infrared Observations of Globular Clusters -- Absolute Magnitude of RR Lyrae in Globular Clusters from Pulsational Properties -- Galactic Globular Clusters as Calibrators of Synthetic Line Indices -- Old Open Clusters as Tracers of Galactic Evolution -- Abundances of Globular Clusters in the Galactic Bulge -- The Globular Clusters and Field Stars in the Galactic Bulge -- The Initial Mass Function of the Galactic Bulge down to ’ 0.15M® -- Radial Variables as Tracers of Stellar Populations -- Abundance Gradients along the Galactic Disk -- The Age of the Galactic Disk -- Compact High Velocity Clouds at High Resolutions -- The Present Rate of Supernovae -- The Role of Classical Novae in the Galactic Nucleo-synthesis -- Faint Stars in the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: Implications for the Stellar IMF -- Evolution of Heavy Elements in wCen: the Puzzle of s-Enrichments -- Stellar Evolution with Rotation -- The Explosive Yields of Massive Stars -- Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars -- Yields from Type la Supernovae -- The Evolution of Zero Metal Intermediate Mass Stars -- The Effect of External Pollution on the Evolution of Low-Mass Metal-Free Stars -- Explosive Nucleosynthesis of Massive Stars. The Effect of the Metallicity -- Chemical Yields from Low-and Intermediate-Mass Stars -- AGB Stars New Models: Lithium Production in the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds -- Observational Constraints to the Evolution of Massive Star -- The Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way -- Reconstructing the Star Formation History of the Galaxy -- Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Halo -- Stellar Yields and Chemical Evolution -- The Influence of Nova Nucleosynthesis on the Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy -- The Evolution of the Milky Way Disk -- The effects of a Variable IMF on the Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy -- Metallicity Effects on Type Ia Supernovae and Galactic and Cosmic Chemical Evolution -- On the Abundance Gradients in the Galactic Disk -- Formation of Disk Galaxies: on the Angular Momentum Problem, the Tully-Fisher Relation and Magnetohydro-dynamics -- Has the IMF of EG’s Always been the Same? -- Concluding Remarks -- Concluding Address.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Matteucci, Francesca. editor., Giovannelli, Franco. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000
Subjects:	Physics., Observations, Astronomical., Astronomy, Astrophysics., Astrophysics and Astroparticles., Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0938-6
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