Stellar populations [[electronic resource] ] : a user guide from low to high redshift / / Laura Greggio and Alvio Renzini |
Autore | Greggio Laura |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RenziniAlvio |
Collana | Wiley series in cosmology |
Soggetto topico |
Stars - Populations
Stars |
ISBN |
3-527-63662-5
1-283-30250-0 9786613302502 3-527-63661-7 3-527-63663-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Stellar 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
2.2 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 3.2 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 4.5.5 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 6.1.2 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 7.2.2 Nucleosynthetic Yields |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139581903321 |
Greggio Laura
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Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, c2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stellar populations [[electronic resource] ] : a user guide from low to high redshift / / Laura Greggio and Alvio Renzini |
Autore | Greggio Laura |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RenziniAlvio |
Collana | Wiley series in cosmology |
Soggetto topico |
Stars - Populations
Stars |
ISBN |
3-527-63662-5
1-283-30250-0 9786613302502 3-527-63661-7 3-527-63663-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Stellar 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
2.2 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 3.2 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 4.5.5 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 6.1.2 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 7.2.2 Nucleosynthetic Yields |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910831039603321 |
Greggio Laura
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Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, c2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stellar populations [[electronic resource] ] : a user guide from low to high redshift / / Laura Greggio and Alvio Renzini |
Autore | Greggio Laura |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 p.) |
Disciplina | 523.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RenziniAlvio |
Collana | Wiley series in cosmology |
Soggetto topico |
Stars - Populations
Stars |
ISBN |
3-527-63662-5
1-283-30250-0 9786613302502 3-527-63661-7 3-527-63663-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Stellar 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
2.2 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 3.2 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 4.5.5 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 6.1.2 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 7.2.2 Nucleosynthetic Yields |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910841475403321 |
Greggio Laura
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Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, c2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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