Ebook: New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics: The Link Between Stars and Cosmology: Proceedings of the International Conference held in Puerto Vallarta, México, 26–30 March 2001

Stellar astrophysics still provides the basic framework for deciphering the imprints left over by the evolving universe on all scales. Advances or shortcomings in the former field have direct consequences in our ability to understand the global properties of the latter.

This volume contains the most recent updates on a variety of topics that, though independent by themselves, are inevitably connected on a cosmological scale. These include comprehensive articles by leaders in fields extending from stellar atmospheres through properties of the stellar component in the Milky Way up to the stellar environment in high redshift galaxies.

The wide coverage of astrophysical themes makes this volume very valuable for researchers and Ph.D. students in astrophysics.

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Stellar astrophysics still provides the basic framework for deciphering the imprints left over by the evolving universe on all scales. Advances or shortcomings in the former field have direct consequences in our ability to understand the global properties of the latter.

This volume contains the most recent updates on a variety of topics that, though independent by themselves, are inevitably connected on a cosmological scale. These include comprehensive articles by leaders in fields extending from stellar atmospheres through properties of the stellar component in the Milky Way up to the stellar environment in high redshift galaxies.

The wide coverage of astrophysical themes makes this volume very valuable for researchers and Ph.D. students in astrophysics.

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Stellar astrophysics still provides the basic framework for deciphering the imprints left over by the evolving universe on all scales. Advances or shortcomings in the former field have direct consequences in our ability to understand the global properties of the latter.

This volume contains the most recent updates on a variety of topics that, though independent by themselves, are inevitably connected on a cosmological scale. These include comprehensive articles by leaders in fields extending from stellar atmospheres through properties of the stellar component in the Milky Way up to the stellar environment in high redshift galaxies.

The wide coverage of astrophysical themes makes this volume very valuable for researchers and Ph.D. students in astrophysics.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Few Things We Do Not Know about Stars and Model Atmospheres....Pages 3-14
Cool Stellar Atmospheres....Pages 15-26
A Critical Appraisal of Atlas9 and Nextgen5 Model Atmospheres....Pages 27-28
A Precise New Method to Correcting Temperature in Stellar Atmospheres....Pages 29-32
New Phenomena Discovered in the Atmospheres of Normal Late-B Type Stars....Pages 33-36
Heating the Quiet Corona by Explosive Events in UV: Results from “Sumer” on Board Soho....Pages 37-38
A Grid of Synthetic Stellar UV Fluxes....Pages 39-40
A Grid of LTE Zero-Metallicity Stellar Fluxes....Pages 41-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
The Peculiar Evolution of Low-Mass Pop III Stars....Pages 47-54
Zero-Metal Stellar Yields, the IMF for Population III and Nucleosynthetic Constraints....Pages 55-58
The Stellar IMF in Very Metal-Deficient Gas....Pages 59-62
Cosmological Origin of the Lowest Metallicity Halo Stars....Pages 63-68
Cosmological Chemistry and the Formation of the First Objects....Pages 69-72
The Primordial Li: New Observations....Pages 73-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-80
Star Formation History in the Solar Neighborhood: The Link Between Stars and Cosmology....Pages 81-81
Carbon and Oxygen Galactic Abundance Gradients Predicted by Different Stellar Yields....Pages 83-90
The Upper end of the Galactic Metallicity Scale....Pages 91-94
Spectral Indices of Stars at Super-Solar Regime....Pages 95-102
The Proper Motion of the Globular Cluster NGC 6553 and of Bulge Stars with HST....Pages 103-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-110
Update on Globular Cluster Ages....Pages 81-81
A Survey of Open Clusters at San Pedro M?rtir....Pages 111-118
About the IMF in Young Stellar Clusters....Pages 119-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-124
Reconstructing Star Formation Episodes in the Local Group....Pages 125-125
Deep Studies of the Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts Of M31....Pages 127-130
Comments on Binary Star Evolution and the Small Magellanic Cloud System HD 5980....Pages 131-134
Stellar Metallicities Beyond the Local Group with VLT/FORS....Pages 135-138
An Estimate of H0 Using Cepheid Period Luminosity Relations at Maximum Light....Pages 139-142
H? Luminosity Function Of H II Regions: Preliminary Calibration of a Powerful Standard Candle....Pages 143-146
On the Behavior of the Ionized Gas in NGC 4449....Pages 147-150
NGC 5044-N50: A Link Between Blue Compact Galaxies and Dwarf Ellipticals....Pages 151-152
Star Formation in Ring Galaxies....Pages 153-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-156
Recent Star Formation in Galaxies....Pages 157-157
Extinction and Star Formation Histories of Nearby Starburst Galaxies....Pages 159-166
Dust and Nebular Emission in Star Forming Galaxies....Pages 167-170
Modeling the Radio to X-ray Sed of Galaxies....Pages 171-174
Population Synthesis in the Blue and the Spectroscopic Age of 47 Tucanae....Pages 175-180
On the Properties of Population III Stars and “Galaxies”....Pages 181-184
Population Synthesis and the Diagnostics of High-Redshift Galaxies....Pages 185-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-196
Explosive Yields of Metal-Free SNII and the Abundances in Extremely Metal-Poor Stars....Pages 197-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-206
The First Detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha System....Pages 197-197
Type IB-IC Supernovae: Time Clocks of Seyfert Galaxies?....Pages 207-210
On the Evolution of Cosmological Type IA Supernovae and the Gravitational Constant....Pages 211-214
Lifting the Veil: ?-Ray Bursts as Beacons for Cosmic Star Formation....Pages 215-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-226
Stars and Gas in High Redshift Galaxies....Pages 227-227
Abundances in Damped LY? Systems....Pages 229-240
High Redshift Galaxies and the Inter-Galactic Medium....Pages 241-248
Dust Penetrated Morphology in the High Redshift Universe....Pages 249-252
The Dusty Star Formation History of High-Z Galaxies, Modeling Tools and Future Prospects....Pages 253-256
On the Calibration of Star Formation Rates....Pages 257-264
Excursions into the Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 265-268
Optical Identification of X-ray Sources in a High X-ray Flux Sensitivity area from the Rass....Pages 269-276
Intermediate Resolution H? Spectroscopy and Photometric Monitoring of 3C 390.3....Pages 277-278
Front Matter....Pages 279-280
From Protostars to Galaxies with GTM/LMT....Pages 281-281
Searching for an Early Epoch of Star Formation with MM/Sub-MM Blank Field Surveys....Pages 283-294
The Creation and Evolution of Galaxies in the Universe: Millimeter Cosmology @INAOE....Pages 295-296
21-cm Emission from the Damped Lyman-? Absorber SBS 1543+593....Pages 297-298
Cosmological Parameters and the Baryon Density from CMB and Galaxy Fluctuations....Pages 299-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-308
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