Stellar populations [electronic resource] : a user guide from low to high redshift / Laura Greggio, Alvio Renzini.

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.""

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Wiley)
Main Author: Greggio, Laura
Other Authors: Renzini, Alvio
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiley-VCH, ©2011.
Series:Series in cosmology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Firm and Less Firm Outcomes of Stellar Evolution Theory
  • The Fundamentals of Evolutionary Population Synthesis
  • Resolving Stellar Populations
  • Age Dating Resolved Stellar Populations
  • The Evolutionary Synthesis of Stellar Populations
  • Stellar Population Diagnostics of Galaxies
  • Supernovae
  • The IMF from Low to High Redshift
  • Evolutionary Links across Cosmic Time: An Empirical History of Galaxies
  • The Chemical Evolution of Galaxies, Clusters, and the Whole Universe
  • Index.