Old Stellar Populations: How to Study the Fossil Record of Galaxy Formation

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Название: Old Stellar Populations: How to Study the Fossil Record of Galaxy Formation

Год: 2013

Автор: Santi Cassisi, Maurizio Salaris

Издательство: WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

Формат: PDF

Размер: 17 Mb

Страниц: 538

Язык: Английский

The book discusses the theoretical path to decoding the information gathered from observations of old stellar systems. It focuses on old stellar systems because these are the fossil record of galaxy formation and provide invaluable information ont he evolution of cosmic structures and the universe as a whole. The aim is to present results obtained in the past few years for theoretical developments in low mass star research and in advances in our knowledge of the evolution of old stellar systems. A particularly representative case is the recent discovery of multiple stellar populations in galactic globular clusters that represents one of the hottest topics in stellar and galactic astrophysics and is discussed in detail.

Santi Cassisi has authored about 270 scientific papers, 150 of them in peer-reviewed journals, and the title Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations.