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  title info:
    title: Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
  name:
    name part: Matteucci, Francesca.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 226 p. online resource.
  abstract: The term “chemical evolution of galaxies” refers to the evolution of abundances of chemical species in galaxies, which is due to nuclear processes occurring in stars and to gas flows into and out of galaxies. This book deals with the chemical evolution of galaxies of all morphological types (ellipticals, spirals and irregulars) and stresses the importance of the star formation histories in determining the properties of stellar populations in different galaxies. The topic is approached in a didactical and logical manner via galaxy evolution models which are compared with observational results obtained in the last two decades: The reader is given an introduction to the concept of chemical abundances and learns about the main stellar populations in our Galaxy as well as about the classification of galaxy types and their main observables. In the core of the book, the construction and solution of chemical evolution models are discussed in detail, followed by descriptions and interpretations of observations of the chemical evolution of the Milky Way, spheroidal galaxies, irregular galaxies and of cosmic chemical evolution. The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to students as well as to amend our present ideas in research; the book also summarizes the efforts made by authors in the past several years in order to further future research in the field.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Basic Ingredients for Modelling Chemical Evolution -- Simple Models of Chemical Evolution -- Numerical Models of Chemical Evolution -- Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way and other Spirals -- Chemical Evolution of Early Type Galaxies -- Chemical Evolution of Irregular Galaxies -- Cosmic Chemical Evolution -- Acronyms.
  note: by Francesca Matteucci.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
  identifier: 9783642224911
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22491-1
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    record creation date: 120103
    record change date: 20151029211850.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-22491-1