New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics

by International Conference on the Link between Stars and Cosmology (2001 : Puerto Vallarta, Mexico); Bressan, Alessandro

• ISBN13: 9781402006449
• ISBN10: 1402006446
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Stellar astrophysics still provides the basic framework for deciphering the imprints left over by the evolving universe on all scales. Advances or shortcomings in the former field have direct consequences in our ability to understand the global properties of the latter. This volume contains the most recent updates on a variety of topics that, though independent by themselves, are inevitably connected on a cosmological scale. These include comprehensive articles by leaders in fields extending from stellar atmospheres through properties of the stellar component in the Milky Way up to the stellar environment in high redshift galaxies. The wide coverage of astrophysical themes makes this volume very valuable for researchers and Ph.D. students in astrophysics.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part I Stellar Atmospheres
A Few Things We Do Not Know About Stars and Model Atmospheres	3	(12)
R. L. Kurucz
Cool Stellar Atmospheres	15	(12)
P. H. Hauschildt
A. Schweitzer
F. Allard
J. W. Ferguson
D. Alexander
E. Baron
A Critical Appraisal of ATLAS9 and NextGen5 Model Atmospheres	27	(2)
E. Bertone
A. Buzzoni
M. Chavez
L. H. Rodriguez-Merino
A Precise New Method to Correcting Temperature in Stellar Atmospheres	29	(4)
O. Cardona
L. Crivellari
E. Simonneau
New Phenomena Discovered in the Atmospheres of Normal Late-B Type Stars	33	(4)
S. Hubrig
G. M. Wahlgren
F. Castelli
Heating the Quiet Corona by Explosive Events in UV: Results from Sumer on board SoHO	37	(2)
J. P. Torres-Papaqui
E. Mendoza
A Grid of Synthetic Stellar UV Fluxes	39	(2)
L. H. Rodriguez-Merino
M. Chavez
A. Buzzoni
E. Bertone
A Grid of LTE Zero-Metallicity Stellar Fluxes	41	(6)
M. Chavez
O. Cardona
Part II Population III and Zero-Metal Stars
The Evolutionary Properties of Zero-Metal Stars in the Mass Range Between 4 and 100 M	47	(8)
A. Chieffi
M. Limongi
I. Dominguez
O. Straniero
The Peculiar Evolution of Low-Mass Pop III Stars	55	(4)
H. Schlattl
S. Cassisi
A. Weiss
M. Salaris
Zero-Metal Stellar Yields, the IMF for Population III and Nucleosynthetic Constraints	59	(4)
C. Abia
I. Dominguez
O. Straniero
M. Limongi
A. Chieffi
J. Isern
The Stellar IMF in Very Metal-Deficient Gas	63	(6)
F. Nakamura
M. Umemura
Cosmological Origin of the Lowest Metallicity Halo Stars	69	(4)
X. Hernandez
A. Ferrara
Cosmological Chemistry and the Formation of the First Objects	73	(4)
A. Lipovka
J. Saucedo
J. Campos
I. Soto
The Primordial Li: New Observations	77	(6)
P. Bonifacio
Part III Stars in the Milky Way
Star Formation History in the Solar Neighborhood: the Link Between Stars and Cosmology	83	(8)
V. Avila-Reese
C. Firmani
X. Hernandez
Carbon and Oxygen Galactic Abundance Gradients Predicted by Different Stellar Yields	91	(4)
L. Carigi
The Upper End of the Galactic Metallicity Scale	95	(8)
B. J. Taylor
Spectral Indices of Stars at Super-solar Regime	103	(4)
A. Buzzoni
M. Chavez
M. L. Malagnini
C. Morossi
The Proper Motion of the Globular Cluster NGC 6553 and of Bulge Stars with HST	107	(4)
M. Zoccali
A. Renzini
S. Ortolani
E. Bica
B. Barbuy
Update on Globular Cluster Ages	111	(8)
P. Demarque
Y. C. Kim
S. Yi
A Survey of Open Clusters at San Pedro Martir	119	(2)
A. Moitinho
W. Schuster
C. Chavarria
About the IMF in Young Stellar Clusters	121	(6)
A. Porras
I. Cruz-Gonzalez
L. Salas
Part IV Stars in Local Galaxies
Reconstructing Star Formation Episodes in the Local Group	127	(4)
D. Valls-Gabaud
X. Hernandez
G. Gilmore
Deep Studies of the Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts of M31	131	(4)
A. M. N. Ferguson
Comments on Binary Star Evolution and the Small Magellanic Cloud System HD 5980	135	(4)
G. Koenigsberger
E. Moreno
Stellar Metallicities Beyond the Local Group with VLT/FORS	139	(4)
N. Przybilla
F. Bresolin
R. H. Mendez
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
An Estimate of H0 using Cepheid Period Luminosity Relations at Maximum Light	143	(4)
S. M. Kanbur
S. Nikolaev
Ha Luminosity Function of H II Regions: Preliminary Calibration of a Powerful Standard Candle	147	(4)
M. Rozas
A. Cardwell
A. Zurita
J. E. Beckman
On the Behavior of the Ionized Gas in NGC 4449	151	(2)
M. Valdez-Gutierrez
M. Rosado
I. Puerari
NGC 5044-N50: a Link Between Blue Compact Galaxies and Dwarf Ellipticals	153	(2)
S. A. Cellone
A. Buzzoni
Star Formation in Ring Galaxies	155	(4)
Y. D. Mayya
R. Romano
Part V Population Synthesis and Galaxy Models
Recent Star Formation in Galaxies	159	(8)
A. Bressan
Extinction and Star Formation Histories of Nearby Starburst Galaxies	167	(4)
Y. D. Mayya
A. Bressan
M. Rodriguez
J. R. Valdes
Dust and Nebular Emission in Star Forming Galaxies	171	(4)
P. Panuzzo
A. Bressan
G. L. Granato
L. Silva
L. Danese
Modeling the Radio to X-ray SED of Galaxies	175	(6)
L. Silva
A. Bressan
G. L. Granato
P. Panuzzo
Population Synthesis in the Blue and the Spectroscopic Age of 47 Tucanae	181	(4)
R. P. Schiavon
S. M. Faber
J. A. Rose
On the Properties of Population III Stars and ``Galaxies''	185	(4)
D. Schaerer
Population Synthesis and the Diagnostics of High-Redshift Galaxies	189	(10)
A. Buzzoni
Part VI High-Mass Stellar Products and Cosmology
Explosive Yields of Metal Free SNII and the Abundances in Extremely Metal Poor Stars	199	(8)
M. Limongi
A. Chieffi
O. Straniero
I. Dominguez
The First Detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha System	207	(4)
S. L. Ellison
S. G. Ryan
J. X. Prochaska
Type Ib-Ic Supernovae: Time Clocks of Seyfert Galaxies?	211	(4)
A. Bressan
P. Marziani
M. Della Valle
On the Evolution of Cosmological Type Ia Supernovae and the Gravitational Constant	215	(8)
E. Garcia-Berro
E. Gaztanaga
J. Isern
O. Benvenuto
L. Althaus
Lifting the Veil: γ-Ray Bursts as Beacons for Cosmic Star Formation	223	(6)
E. Ramirez-Ruiz
N. Trentham
A. W. Blain
Part VII Stellar Environments in High-Redshift Galaxies
Stars and Gas in High Redshift Galaxies	229	(12)
M. Pettini
Abundances in Damped Lyα Systems	241	(8)
P. Molaro
High Redshift Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium	249	(4)
R. A. C. Croft
V. Springel
L. Hernquist
M. White
Dust Penetrated Morphology in the High Redshift Universe	253	(4)
D. L. Block
I. Puerari
M. Takamiya
R. Abraham
A. Stockton
I. Robson
W. Holland
The Dusty Star Formation History of High-z Galaxies, Modeling Tools and Future Prospects	257	(8)
G. L. Granato
L. Silva
On the Calibration of Star Formation Rates	265	(4)
D. Rosa-Gonzalez
E. Terlevich
R. Terlevich
Excursions into the Evolution of Early-type Galaxies	269	(8)
O. Lopez-Cruz
D. Schade
L. F. Barrientos
M. D. Gladders
H.K.C. Yee
T. Kodama
Optical Identification of X-ray Sources in a High X-ray Flux Sensitivity Area from the RASS	277	(2)
R. Mujica
F. J. Zickgraf
V. Chavushyan
Y. Juarez
A. Serrano
I. Appenzeller
J. Krautter
Intermediate Resolution Hβ Spectroscopy and Photometric Monitoring of 3C 390.3	279	(4)
J. R. Valdes
L. Carrasco
V. H. Chavushyan
F. Legrand
A. I. Shapovalova
A. N. Burenkov
V. V. Vlasuyk
V. P. Mikhailov
O. I. Spiridonova
A. M. Dumont
S. Collin
V. T. Doroshenko
V. M. Lyuty
N. G. Bochkarev
O. Kurtanidze
M. G. Nikolashvili
Part VIII New Insights from Radio and Millimeter Spectral Windows
From protostars to galaxies with GTM/LMT	283	(12)
L. Carrasco
A. Carraminana
Searching for an Early Epoch of Star Formation with mm/sub-mm Blank Field Surveys	295	(2)
E. Chapin
D. H. Hughes
E. Gaztanaga
I. Aretxaga
The Creation and Evolution of Galaxies in the Universe: Millimeter Cosmology @ INAOE	297	(2)
E. Gaztanaga
D. H. Hughes
E. Chapin
I. Aretxaga
21-cm Emission from the Damped Lyman-α Absorber SBS 1543+593	299	(4)
D. V. Bowen
E. Brinks
W. Huchtmeier
T. M. Tripp
E. B. Jenkins
Cosmological Parameters and the Baryon Density from CMB and Galaxy Fluctuations	303	(6)
E. Gaztanaga
J. Barriga
M. G. Santos
S. Sarkar
List of Participants	309