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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457864603321

Titolo

Cosmochemistry : the melting pot of the elements : XIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, November 19-30, 2001 / / edited by C. Esteban [and others] [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14730-1

1-280-45794-5

9786610457946

0-511-18564-2

0-511-18481-6

0-511-18746-7

0-511-31357-8

0-511-53621-6

0-511-18653-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge contemporary astrophysics

Disciplina

523/.02

Soggetti

Cosmochemistry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Primordial alchemy: from the big bang to the present / G. Steigman. -- Stellar nucleosynthesis / N. Langer. -- Observational aspects of stellar nucleosynthesis / D.L. Lambert. -- Abundance determinations in HII regions and planetary nebulae / G. Stasińska. -- Element abundances in nearby galaxies / D.R. Garnett. -- Chemical evolution of galaxies and intracluster medium / F. Matteucci. -- Element abundances through the cosmic ages / M. Pettini.

Sommario/riassunto

The chemical composition of the Universe has evolved over billions of years. A host of astrophysical processes and observations must be understood in order to explain why celestial objects have the chemical compositions observed. Originally published in 2004, this book contains the lectures delivered at the XIII Canary Islands Winter School



of Astrophysics, which was dedicated to reviewing current knowledge about the origin and evolution of the chemical elements in the Universe. Written by seven prestigious astrophysics researchers, it covers cosmological and stellar nucleosynthesis, abundance determinations in stars and ionised nebulae, chemical composition of nearby and distant galaxies, and models of chemical evolution of galaxies and intracluster medium. This is a timely review of developments in cosmochemistry over the last decade.