Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Large Structures in the Universe [electronic resource] /

I — Cosmology of the very early universe and fundamental interactions -- Primordial Inflation and Super cosmology -- Remarks on the quark-hadron transition in the early Universe -- Mass bounds on a dileptonic system from cosmoLogy -- Cosmological constant and Friedmann Universes -- II — Large structures: Pancakes — Clusters of galaxies -- Dark matter and shocked pancakes -- Pancakes, hot gas and microwave distortions -- Spectrum of the cosmic background radiation -- Is the Universe made of massive neutrinos? -- The pregalactic Universe and the formation of large scale structure -- Large soa I e inhomogeneities and galaxy sta t istios -- Clusters of galaxies as indioators of galaxy origin -- III — Massive halos -- Are massive halos baryonic? -- What is the dark matter? Implications for galaxy formation and particle physics -- Dark matter, galaxies and globular clusters -- CosmoLogical constraints on neutrinos and other “inos” and the “missing light” problem -- Blaok halos and dwarf galaxies -- Mass-to-light ratios of spiral galaxies -- IV — Pregalactic stars and early nucleosynthesis -- Pregalaotio aotivity, galaxy formation and hidden mass -- On the nature of the first stars -- On the forma tion of population II stars via thermal instability -- Possible synthesis of deuterium and lithium by pregaLactic massive stars -- Deuterium and lithium from population III remnants -- Chemioal evolution of the light elements and the Big Bang nuoleosynthesis -- V — Structure and dynamical evolution of galaxies -- Struoture and evolution of triaxial galaxies -- Are N-body potentials of Eddington form ? -- Secular dynamical evolution of galaxies -- A galaxy distribution funotion ? -- The thickness of galactic disks -- Heating of stellar disks by massive objects -- The origin of rotation in galaxies and clusters -- Rotation, dissipation and elliptioal galaxies -- VI — Chemical evolution of galaxies -- Nucleosynthesis constraints on early galactic evolution -- Stocnastic star formation in dwarf irregular galaxies -- The oxygen anomaly in metal poor stars -- “Liners” and Abundance in galactic nuclei -- Author index.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Audouze, Jean. editor., Tran Thanh Van, Jean. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1984
Subjects:	Physics., Observations, Astronomical., Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7245-2
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