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Why Galaxies Care about AGB Stars (IAU S343)

Why Galaxies Care about AGB Stars (IAU S343)

Why Galaxies Care about AGB Stars (IAU S343)

A Continuing Challenge through Cosmic Time
Franz Kerschbaum , Universität Wien, Austria
Martin Groenewegen , Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België, Brussels
Hans Olofsson , Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenberg
Verena Baumgartner , Universität Wien, Austria
April 2020
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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.

    • 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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    April 2020
    Hardback
    9781108471527
    582 pages
    255 × 180 × 25 mm
    1.08kg
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    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.
      Contributors
    • John Lattanzio, Bernd Freytag, Wouter Vlemmings, Claudia Paladini, Theo Khouri, Marcelo Miller Bertolami, Eline Tolstoy, Zeljko Ivezic, Shreeya Shetye, Thomas Lebzelter, Amanda Karakas, Cseh Borbala, Bernhard Aringer, Sara Bladh, Tomasz Kaminski, David Gobrecht, Jels Boulangier, Sofie Liljegren, Eric Lagadec, Sofia Ramstedt, Kyung-Won Suh, Raghvendra Sahai, Letizia Stanghellini, Thavisha Dharmawardena, Jose Jairo Diaz-Luis, Maryam Saberi, Jeremy Lim, Souradeep Bhattacharya, Devika Kamath, Orsola de Marco, Glenn-Michael Oomen, Luke Chamandy, Miguel Santander-Garcia, Chiaki Kobayashi, Svitlana Zhukovska, Anke Arentsen, Giada Pastorelli, Patricia Whitelock, Atefeh Javadi, Paolo Ventura, Michele Trabucchi, Greg Sloan, Ariane Lancon, Francesca D'Antona, Martha Boyer, Fiorenzo Vincenzo, Lorant Sjouwerman

    • Editors
    • Franz Kerschbaum
    • Martin Groenewegen , Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België, Brussels
    • Hans Olofsson
    • Assisted by
    • Verena Baumgartner

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