LEADER 04996nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910841475403321 005 20170814171610.0 010 $a3-527-63662-5 010 $a1-283-30250-0 010 $a9786613302502 010 $a3-527-63661-7 010 $a3-527-63663-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000055787 035 $a(EBL)822722 035 $a(OCoLC)761319844 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000612941 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11387981 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612941 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10571899 035 $a(PQKB)11212667 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC822722 035 $a(iGPub)WILEYB0028591 035 $a(PPN)163503729 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000055787 100 $a20111013d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStellar populations$b[electronic resource] $ea user guide from low to high redshift /$fLaura Greggio and Alvio Renzini 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWeinheim $cWiley-VCH Verlag GmbH$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 225 1 $aWiley series in cosmology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-527-40918-1 327 $aStellar Populations; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Color Plates; 1 Firm and Less Firm Outcomes of Stellar Evolution Theory; 1.1 A Brief Journey through Stellar Evolution; 1.1.1 A 9 M Star; 1.1.2 The Evolution of Stars with Solar Composition; 1.1.3 Dependence on Initial Chemical Composition; 1.1.4 The Asymptotic Giant Branch Phase; 1.2 Strengths and Weaknesses of Stellar Evolutionary Models; 1.2.1 Microphysics; 1.2.2 Macrophysics; 1.3 The Initial Mass-Final Mass Relation; 2 The Fundamentals of Evolutionary Population Synthesis; 2.1 The Stellar Evolution Clock 327 $a2.2 The Evolutionary Flux2.3 The Fuel Consumption Theorem; 2.4 Fuel Consumptions; 2.5 Population Synthesis Using Isochrones; 2.6 The Luminosity Evolution of Stellar Populations; 2.7 The Specific Evolutionary Flux; 2.8 The IMF Scale Factor; 2.9 Total and Specific Rates of Mass Return; 2.10 Mass and Mass-to-Light Ratio; 2.11 IMF-Dependent and IMF-Independent Quantities; 2.12 The Age-Metallicity Degeneracy; 3 Resolving Stellar Populations; 3.1 The Stellar Populations of Pixels and Frames; 3.1.1 The Stellar Population of a Frame; 3.1.2 The Stellar Population of a Pixel 327 $a3.2 Simulated Observations and Their Reduction4 Age Dating Resolved Stellar Populations; 4.1 Globular Cluster Ages; 4.1.1 Absolute and Relative Globular Cluster Ages; 4.1.2 Globular Clusters with Multiple Populations; 4.2 The Age of the Galactic Bulge; 4.3 Globular Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds; 4.4 Stellar Ages of the M31 Spheroid; 4.4.1 The Bulge of M31; 4.4.2 The M31 Halo and Giant Stream; 4.5 The Star Formation Histories of Resolved Galaxies; 4.5.1 The Mass-Specific Production; 4.5.2 Decoding the CMD; 4.5.3 The Specific Production Method; 4.5.4 The Synthetic CMD Method 327 $a4.5.5 An Example: the Stellar Population in the Halo of the Centaurus A Galaxy5 The Evolutionary Synthesis of Stellar Populations; 5.1 Simple Stellar Populations; 5.2 Spectral Libraries; 5.2.1 Empirical Spectral Libraries; 5.2.2 Model Atmosphere Libraries; 5.3 Composite Stellar Populations; 5.4 Evolving Spectra; 5.4.1 The Spectral Evolution of a SSP; 5.4.2 The Spectral Evolution of Composite Stellar Populations; 5.4.3 There Are Also Binaries; 6 Stellar Population Diagnostics of Galaxies; 6.1 Measuring Star Formation Rates; 6.1.1 The SFR from the Ultraviolet Continuum 327 $a6.1.2 The SFR from the Far-Infrared Luminosity6.1.3 The SFR from Optical Emission Lines; 6.1.4 The SFR from the Soft X-ray Luminosity; 6.1.5 The SFR from the Radio Luminosity; 6.2 Measuring the Stellar Mass of Galaxies; 6.3 Age and Metallicity Diagnostics; 6.3.1 Star-Forming Galaxies; 6.3.2 Quenched Galaxies; 6.4 Star-Forming and Quenched Galaxies through Cosmic Times; 6.4.1 The Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies; 6.4.2 The Mass and Environment of Quenched Galaxies; 6.4.3 Mass Functions; 7 Supernovae; 7.1 Observed SN Rates; 7.2 Core Collapse SNe; 7.2.1 Theoretical Rates 327 $a7.2.2 Nucleosynthetic Yields 330 $aThis up-to-date reference on stellar populations and development models includes coverage of distant galaxies, chemical evolution and supernovae. Written by highly acclaimed authorities in the field, the book makes use of specific problems to reveal the ""kitchen secrets."" 410 0$aWiley series in cosmology. 606 $aStars$xPopulations 606 $aStars$vClassification 615 0$aStars$xPopulations. 615 0$aStars 676 $a523.8 700 $aGreggio$b Laura$01729533 701 $aRenzini$b Alvio$048980 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910841475403321 996 $aStellar populations$94139593 997 $aUNINA