Download or read book Multi color Studies of Old Stellar Populations written by Sangmo Tony Sohn and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Stellar Populations written by Santi Cassisi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the theoretical path to decoding the information gathered from observations of old stellar systems. It focuses on old stellar systems because these are the fossil record of galaxy formation and provide invaluable information ont he evolution of cosmic structures and the universe as a whole. The aim is to present results obtained in the past few years for theoretical developments in low mass star research and in advances in our knowledge of the evolution of old stellar systems. A particularly representative case is the recent discovery of multiple stellar populations in galactic globular clusters that represents one of the hottest topics in stellar and galactic astrophysics and is discussed in detail. Santi Cassisi has authored about 270 scientific papers, 150 of them in peer-reviewed journals, and the title Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations.
Download or read book Stellar Populations written by Alvio Renzini and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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."
Download or read book Outskirts of Galaxies written by Johan H. Knapen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of invited reviews written by world-renowned experts on the subject of the outskirts of galaxies, an upcoming field which has been understudied so far. These regions are faint and hard to observe, yet hide a tremendous amount of information on the origin and early evolution of galaxies. They thus allow astronomers to address some of the most topical problems, such as gaseous and satellite accretion, radial migration, and merging. The book is published in conjunction with the celebration of the end of the four-year DAGAL project, an EU-funded initial training network, and with a major international conference on the topic held in March 2016 in Toledo. It thus reflects not only the views of the experts, but also the scientific discussions and progress achieved during the project and the meeting. The reviews in the book describe the most modern observations of the outer regions of our own Galaxy, and of galaxies in the local and high-redshift Universe. They tackle disks, haloes, streams, and accretion as observed through deep imaging and spectroscopy, and guide the reader through the various formation and evolution scenarios for galaxies. The reviews focus on the major open questions in the field, and explore how they can be tackled in the future. This book provides a unique entry point into the field for graduate students and non-specialists, and serves as a reference work for researchers in this exciting new field.
Download or read book Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations written by Maurizio Salaris and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations is a comprehensive presentation of the theory of stellar evolution and its application to the study of stellar populations in galaxies. Taking a unique approach to the subject, this self-contained text introduces first the theory of stellar evolution in a clear and accessible manner, with particular emphasis placed on explaining the evolution with time of observable stellar properties, such as luminosities and surface chemical abundances. This is followed by a detailed presentation and discussion of a broad range of related techniques, that are widely applied by researchers in the field to investigate the formation and evolution of galaxies. This book will be invaluable for undergraduates and graduate students in astronomy and astrophysics, and will also be of interest to researchers working in the field of Galactic, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. comprehensive presentation of stellar evolution theory introduces the concept of stellar population and describes "stellar population synthesis" methods to study ages and star formation histories of star clusters and galaxies presents stellar evolution as a tool for investigating the evolution of galaxies and of the universe in general
Download or read book Stellar populations as building blocks of galaxies proceedings of the 241th symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in La Palma Tenerife Spain December 10 16 2006 written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stellar Population Studies in Galaxy Nuclei written by Alex Andre Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 3D Spectroscopy of Dense Stellar Populations written by Tim-Oliver Husser and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2012 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globular clusters are gravitationally bound collections of hundreds of thousands of stars that are almost as old as the Universe itself. Although they have been studied for hundreds of years, their formation and evolution is not yet fully understood. We want to fi nd answers to some of the major questions by investing a large amount of observing time with MUSE, the upcoming 2nd generation instrument for ESOś Very Large Telescope. In this thesis I discuss the current state of research on globular clusters as well as the possibilities of this new instrument. Numerical methods for the analysis of MUSE data are presented, including a comprehensive library of synthetic spectra that has been created just for this purpose. The application of these methods to both synthetic and real data is discussed with particular emphasis on a "dry run" that has been conducted for MUSE. Finally, a potential program for the observation of globular clusters is presented.
Download or read book Secular Evolution of Galaxies written by Jesús Falcón-Barroso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formation and evolution of galaxies is one of the most important topics in modern astrophysics. Secular evolution refers to the relatively slow dynamical evolution due to internal processes induced by a galaxy's spiral arms, bars, galactic winds, black holes and dark matter haloes. It plays an important role in the evolution of spiral galaxies with major consequences for galactic bulges, the transfer of angular momentum, and the distribution of a galaxy's constituent stars, gas and dust. This internal evolution is in turn the key to understanding and testing cosmological models of galaxy formation and evolution. Based on the twenty-third Winter School of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics, this volume presents reviews from nine world-renowned experts on the observational and theoretical research into secular processes, and what these processes can tell us about the structure and formation of galaxies. The volume provides a firm grounding for graduate students and early career researchers working on galactic dynamics and galaxy evolution.
Download or read book Stellar Populations of Tidal Tails written by Michael Rodruck and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galaxy interactions are known to provoke star formation in galactic disks and across tidal tails and other tidally induced features. While previous models have predicted only 10% of the total star formation rate (SFR) to occur in tidal features, recent simulations with explicit stellar feedback have increased this estimate to 20 ~ 50% Observations of the Tadpole galaxy confirm this prediction, as 30% of the system's SFR is occurring in tidal tail star clusters. More specifically, star clusters themselves can host up to 70% of stellar formation in regions of high gas density. If we want to understand the stellar populations that galaxy interactions produce, we must therefore understand their star clusters. However, many clusters are short-lived, subjected to internal (gas expulsion via winds and supernovae) and external (tidal shocks) forces which disrupt them and spill their contents into the tidal debris. Thus, while the majority of star clusters will be destroyed, evidence of their existence is found in the diffuse light. My dissertation studies these stellar populations: bright, compact sources (star clusters), and faint, diffuse light. Old stars from the parent galaxies and young stars formed after the interaction live within the diffuse tidal debris, both contributing to the total luminosity. If we want to look at the stars formed in the interaction, we need a method for disentangling the two. I show how these two populations can be identified in the cumulative tidal tail light, using imaging with the broadband Sloan ugri filters. This technique allows for determination of the total contribution of luminosity and mass from the young and old stellar components. I use the merging system NGC 3256 and its twin tidal tails as a pilot study for this analysis. I find that both tails are dominated in mass by an old population, formed in the host galaxy, with contributions by a young population, formed during the interaction. I also show that the colors of the diffuse light in the Western tidal tail are similar to the colors of its star clusters, suggesting they have a common origin. While ground-based imaging is suitable for deep photometry, star cluster analysis requires high-resolution imaging. I use the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain images in broadband UBVI filters for a sample of 12 tidal tails, in 7 merging systems. I compare these data to stellar evolutionary models to determine ages and masses for star clusters within the tail, finding that many objects show evidence of emission lines, indicating very young ages. Additionally, I use far-ultraviolet (UV) data from GALEX and Swift to obtain star formation rates within the tails. When compared to the total cluster formation rate, I find that the efficiency of cluster formation follows the star formation rate density in these diffuse regions. Finally, I discuss future studies of tidal tails, and how my work on the diffuse light and star clusters will tie together with 21 cm observations of neutral hydrogen (HI) to create a holistic view of the requirements of star formation in tidal tails.
Download or read book Stellar Populations written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IAU Symposium 262 presents reviews on the current understanding of the theories of stellar evolution, galaxy formation and galaxy evolution. It emphasises what we have learned in the past few years from massive surveys covering large portions of the sky (e.g. SDSS, HDF, UDF, GOODS, COSMOS). Several critical aspects of research on stellar populations deserve further effort in order to be brought in tune with other areas of astrophysical research. The next ten years will see the opening of major observatories that will increase the quality and quantity of astronomical data by orders of magnitude. The expected benefits from these instruments for the study of stellar populations are explored. This critical review of state of the art observational and theoretical work will appeal to all those working on stellar populations, from distant galaxies to local resolved galaxies and galactic star clusters.
Download or read book A Multi Wavelength Census of Star Formation at Redshift Z 2 written by Naveen Reddy and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the census of star-forming galaxies and their extinction properties at redshift z 2, when a large fraction of the stellar mass in the universe formed. We find a good agreement between the X-ray, radio, and de-reddened UV estimates of the average star formation rate (SFR) for our sample of z 2 galaxies of 50 Msun/yr, indicating that the locally calibrated SFR relations appear to be statistically valid from redshifts 1.5
Download or read book The Structure Stellar Populations of Nuclear Star Clusters in Late Type Spiral Galaxies written by Daniel James Carson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luminous, compact stellar systems known as nuclear clusters (NCs) are commonly found in the centers of galaxies across the entire Hubble sequence. I present an analysis of the structure and stellar populations of a sample of ten of the nearest and brightest NCs residing in late-type spiral galaxies, using images from Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 in seven bands that span the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared in wavelength. The intrinsic shapes and sizes of the NCs, disentangled from the effects of point spread function (PSF) blurring, were measured using GALFIT. We find evidence for radial color gradients within the NCs, as well as young disk structures aligned with the host galaxy disk. In color-color diagrams spanning the near-UV through the near-IR, NCs tend to lie far from single-burst evolutionary tracks, indicating the presence of multi-age populations.I developed a Monte Carlo code to fit linear combinations of simple stellar population models to the observed spectral energy distribution (SED) of each NC and assess the uncertainties in the fit parameters. Tests on a catalog of mock SEDs demonstrate that our method gives unbiased mass age, and reddening estimates for populations with U -- V colors redder than ∼ --2 mag. Stellar masses computed via SED fitting are in good agreement with previous dynamical studies. The NCs are generally dominated by an old (> 1 Gyr) population component, but are best described by temporally extended star formation histories. On average, populations with ages
Download or read book The Stellar Populations of Galaxies written by B. Barbuy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One approach to learning about stellar populations is to study them at three different levels of resolution. First in our own Galaxy; secondly from nearby galaxies where stars can still be resolved; and thirdly in remote galaxies in which the stellar population can only be studied in integrated light. This IAU Symposium covered the entire range of galaxies in its study of their stellar populations. Interspersed with theoretical papers, the wealth of observational results provides an important state-of-the-art presentation of the progress that has been made in this field.
Download or read book Origin and Evolution of the Elements Volume 4 Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series written by Andrew McWilliam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Carnegie volume discusses the origin and evolution of elements in our galaxy and others.
Download or read book A Novel Multi scale Analysis to Determine Red Giant Branch Metallicities of Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies written by Christopher Thomas Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies written by Mauro D'Onofrio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to outline possible future directions in galaxy research, this book wants to be a short stopover, a moment of self-reflection of the past century of achievements in this area. Since the pioneering years of galaxy research in the early 20th century, the research on galaxies has seen a relentless advance directly connected to the parallel exponential growth of new technologies. Through a series of interviews with distinguished astronomers the editors provide a snapshot of the achievements obtained in understanding galaxies. While many initial questions about their nature have been addressed, many are still open and require new efforts to achieve a solution. The discussions may reveal paradigms worthwhile revisiting. With the help of some of those scientists who have contributed to it, the editors sketch the history of this scientific journey and ask them for inspirations for future directions of galaxy research.
