Stellar Astrophysics for the Local Group
VIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
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Part of Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics
- Editors:
- A. Aparicio, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
- A. Herrero, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
- F. Sánchez, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
- Date Published: June 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521176309
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With the advent of large, ground-based telescopes and space telescopes, it is now possible to study in detail stars outside our galaxy - in neighbouring galaxies in the so-called Local Group. The VIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics gathered leading experts from around the world to review this exciting area of research - extragalactic stellar astrophysics. This volume presents eight specially written articles based on the meeting, reviewing how the study of stars in nearby galaxies can be used to understand stellar and galactic structure and evolution in general. This book covers all aspects of extragalactic stellar astrophysics: stellar physics, stellar winds, stellar evolution, the use of photometric and spectroscopic techniques for studying extragalactic stars, stellar populations, chemical evolution, star formation histories and the calibration of the extragalactic distance scale. This volume provides graduate students and researchers with an invaluable introduction to and reference on the new subject of extragalactic stellar astrophysics.
Read more- A comprehensive introduction to the techniques and results of the rapidly developing field of spectroscopy of extragalactic stars
- Pedagogical style makes the book suitable as an introduction for graduate students as well as a useful reference for researchers
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- Date Published: June 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521176309
- length: 624 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 32 mm
- weight: 0.98kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Fundamentals of stellar evolution theory: understanding the HRD C. Chiosi
2. Observations of the most luminous stars in local group galaxies P. Massey
3. Quantitative spectroscopy of the brightest blue supergiant stars in galaxies R. P. Kudritzki
4. Calibration of the extragalactic distance scale B. F. Madore and W. L. Freedman
5. Dwarf galaxies G. S. Da Costa
6. Resolved stellar populations of the luminous galaxies in the local group M. Mateo
7. Chemical evolution of the ISM in nearby galaxies E. D. Skillman
8. Populations of massive stars and the interstellar medium C. Leitherer.
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