This book is based partly on a. lecture course given at the
University of Tri este, but mostly on my own research experience in
the field of galactic chemical evolution. The subject of galactic
chemical evolution was started and developed by Beat rice Tinsley
in the seventies and now is a flourishing subject. This book is
dedi cated to the chemical evolution of our Galaxy and aims at
giving an up-to-date review of what we have learned since Tinsley's
pioneering efforts. At the time of writing, in fact, books of this
kind were not available with the exception of the excellent book by
Bernard Pagel on "Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution of
Galaxies" (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and the subject of
galactic chem ical evolution has appeared only as short chapters in
books devoted to other subjects. Therefore, I felt that a book of
this kind could be useful. The book summarizes the observational
facts which allow us to reconstruct the chemical history of our
Galaxy, in particular the abundances in stars and in terstellar
medium; in the last decade, a great deal of observational work,
mostly abundance determinations in stars in the solar vicinity, has
shed light on the pro duction and distribution of chemical
elements. Even more recently more abun dance data have accumulated
for external galaxies at both low and high redshift, thus providing
precious information on the chemical evolution of different types
of galaxies and on the early stages of galaxy evolution.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 253 |
| Release date: |
October 2003 |
| First published: |
2003 |
| Authors: |
Francesca Matteucci
|
| Dimensions: |
240 x 160 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
285 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4020-1652-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Astronomy, space & time >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-4020-1652-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781402016523 |
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