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Lessons from the Local Group - A Conference in honour of David Block and Bruce Elmegreen (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Lessons from the Local Group - A Conference in honour of David Block and Bruce Elmegreen (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Our understanding of galaxy formation comes mostly from two
sources: sensitive observations at high angular resolution of the
high-redshift Universe, where galaxies are observed to be forming,
and detailed observations of individual stars and clouds in the
Local Group, where telltale remnants from its formative time remain
and similar processes operate at a low level today. The current
conference focusses on key aspects of the Local Group, composed of
the Milky Way, Andromeda and Triangulum Spiral Galaxies, the Large
and Small Magellanic Cloud galaxies, numerous dwarf and irregular
galaxies, and intergalactic gas. Topics include the halo and thick
disk of the Milky Way with its first stars and stellar streams; the
Milky Way bar, bulge and outer edge; interstellar dust and
turbulence; star formation processes and stellar scattering in
spiral arms; views through the infrared Eyes of the Spitzer Space
Telescope; globular clusters; the Local Gould Belt; stellar
metallicities and elemental abundances; the environment and black
hole in the Milky Way nucleus; orbits of the Magellanic Clouds and
galaxy dwarfs; interstellar dust and turbulence; the outer disks
and halos of the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies; ripples from a
collision in Andromeda; and arcs of carbon stars in the Triangulum
and intergalactic clouds. This volume also discusses surveys of
planetary nebulae, galaxy morphology at low and high redshift,
cosmic evolution of star and galaxy formation and gas accretion,
Lyman alpha emitting galaxies, ultra-low surface brightness
imaging, and more. Readers are given a clear and comprehensive view
of this wide range of topics written by specialists in each field.
This is the proceedings of an International Conference at the
Seychelles archipelago in May 2014, on the occasion of the 60th
birthday of David Block and the millionth (base two) birthday of
Bruce Elmegreen.
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