Lessons from the Local Group A Conference in honour of David Block and Bruce Elmegreen /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Freeman, Kenneth (Editor), Elmegreen, Bruce (Editor), Block, David (Editor), Woolway, Matthew (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

 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...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Lessons from the Milky Way
• Milky Way Halo and First Stars
• Milky Way Bulge
• Milky Way Thick Disk
• Milky Way Bar
• Milky Way Thin Disk and Spiral Structure
• Gould’s Belt
• Gas in the Milky Way
• Interstellar Gas Dynamics
• Interstellar Turbulence.