Why Galaxies Care about AGB Stars (IAU S343)
A Continuing Challenge through Cosmic Time
Part of Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposia and Colloquia
- Editors:
- Franz Kerschbaum, Universität Wien, Austria
- Martin Groenewegen, Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België, Brussels
- Hans Olofsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenberg
- Date Published: April 2020
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108471527
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Stars on the asymptotic giant branch (AGB stars) play an important role due to their high luminosity and production of heavy elements and cosmic dust. They are prime laboratories for studying situations where different physical and chemical processes work simultaneously, on different time scales. IAU Symposium 343 builds a bridge between research on AGB stars themselves and their applications to the modelling of stellar populations and the chemical evolution of galaxies. Our understanding of these complex stars is given using insights into many aspects of physics and chemistry, while very high-angular resolution observations of AGB stars and their surroundings provide strong constraints on stellar theory and how they lose matter through strong stellar winds. This volume also highlights the difficulties in estimating the importance of AGB stars for various aspects of galaxies. Current developments and challenges of these complex objects are discussed for a broad, interdisciplinary audience of astronomers.
Read more- Updates readers' understanding of complicated AGB stars and their companions using many aspects of physics and chemistry
- Explores AGB stars as both actors and probes in the context of galaxies and their evolution, such as dust and element production
- Reports on very high-angular resolution observations of AGB stars and their surroundings
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- Date Published: April 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108471527
- length: 582 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 180 x 25 mm
- weight: 1.08kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Stellar structure and evolution to, on and past the AGB
2. New and future observational perspectives
3. Nucleosynthesis, mixing, and rotation
4. Pulsation, dynamical atmospheres, and dust formation
5. Circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars and their progeny, planetary nebulae
6. Binarity, planets, and disks
7. AGB stars in the cosmic matter cycle
Resolved and unresolved AGB populations
8. Galaxy evolution, including the first AGB stars
9. Posters.
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