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Title The metal-rich universe / edited by Garik Israelian and Georges Meynet
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 470 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge contemporary astrophysics
Cambridge contemporary astrophysics.
Contents Part I Abundances in the Galaxy: field stars 1 -- 1 Metal-rich stars and stellar populations: a brief history and new results / R.M. Rich 3 -- 2 The metal-rich nature of stars with planets / N.C. Santos 17 -- 3 Solar chemical peculiarities? / C. Allende Prieto 30 -- 4 Kinematics of metal-rich stars with and without planets / A. Ecuvillon, G. Israelian, F. Pont, N.C. Santos, M. Mayor 36 -- 5 Elemental abundance trends in the metal-rich thin and thick disks / S. Feltzing 41 -- 6 Metal-rich massive stars: how metal-rich are they? / D.J. Lennon, C. Trundle 53 -- 7 Hercules-stream stars and the metal-rich thick disk / T. Bensby, M.S. Oey, S. Feltzing, B. Gustafsson 62 -- 8 An abundance survey of the Galactic thick disk / B.E. Reddy, D.L. Lambert, C. Allende Prieto 69 -- Part II Abundances in the Galaxy: Galactic stars in clusters, bulges and the centre 75 -- 9 Galactic open clusters with supersolar metallicities / S. Randich 77 -- 10 Old and very-metal-rich open clusters in the BOCCE project / A. Bragaglia, E. Carretta, R. Gratton, M. Tosi 88 -- 11 Massive-star versus nebular abundances in the Orion nebula / S. Simon-Diaz 94 -- 12 Abundance surveys of metal-rich bulge stars / J.P. Fulbright, R.M. Rich, A. McWilliam 100 -- 13 Metal abundances in the Galactic Center / F. Najarro 112 -- 14 Light elements in the Galactic bulge / A. Lecureur, V. Hill, M. Zoccali, B. Barbuy 126 -- 15 Metallicity and ages of selected G-K giants / L. Pasquini, M. Dollinger, J. Setiawan, A. Hatzes, L. Girardi, L. da Silva, J.R. de Medeiros, A. Weiss, O. Von Der Luhe 132 -- Part III Observations -- abundances in extragalactic contexts 139 -- 16 Stellar abundances of early-type galaxies / S.C. Trager 141 -- 17 Measuring chemical abundances in extragalactic metal-rich H II regions / F. Bresolin 155 -- 18 On the maximum oxygen abundance in metal-rich spiral galaxies / J.M. Vilchez, L. Pilyugin, T.X. Thuan 168 -- 19 Starbursts and their contribution to metal enrichment / D. Kunth 173 -- 20 High metallicities at high redshifts / M. Pettini 186 -- 21 Evolution of dust and elemental abundances in quasar DLAs and GRB afterglows as a function of cosmic time / B.E. Penprase, W. Sargent, E. Berger 199 -- 22 Dust, metals and diffuse interstellar bands in damped Lyman-alpha systems / S. Ellison 205 -- 23 Tracing metallicities in the Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope / R. Maiolino, S. Arribas, T. Boker, A. Bunker, S. Charlot, G. de Marchi, P. Ferruit, M. Franx, P. Jakobsen, H. Moseley, T. Nagao, L. Origlia, B. Rauscher, M. Regan, H.W. Rix, C.J. Willott 212 -- Part IV Stellar populations and mass functions 225 -- 24 The stellar initial mass function of metal-rich populations / P. Kroupa 227 -- 25 Initial-mass-function effects on the metallicity and colour evolution of disc galaxies / P. Westera, M. Samland, R. Buser, K. Ammon 249 -- 26 The metallicity of circumnuclear star-forming regions / A.I. Diaz, E. Terlevich, M. Castellanos, G. Hagele 255 -- 27 The stellar population of bulges / P. Jablonka 261 -- 28 The metallicity distribution of the stars in elliptical galaxies / A. Pipino, F. Matteucci 270 -- 29 Wolf-Rayet populations at high metallicity / P.A. Crowther 276 -- 30 The stellar populations of metal-rich starburst galaxies: the frequency of Wolf-Rayet stars / J.R. Souza Leao, C. Leitherer, F. Bresolin, R. Cid Fernandes 288 -- Part V Physical processes at high metallicity 293 -- 31 Stellar winds from Solar-metallicity and metal-rich massive stars / J. Puls 295 -- 32 On the determination of stellar parameters and abundances of metal-rich stars / Y. Takeda 308 -- 33 Are WNL stars tracers of high metallicity? / G. Grafener, W.-R. Hamann 321 -- 34 The observable metal-enrichment of radiation-driven-pluswind-blown H II regions in the Wolf-Rayet stage / G. Hensler, D. Kroeger, T. Freyer 327 -- 35 Metal-rich A-type supergiants in M31 / N. Przybilla, K. Butler, R.-P. Kudritzki 332 -- Part VI Formation and evolution of metal-rich stars and stellar yields 339 -- 36 Massive-star evolution at high metallicity / G. Meynet, N. Mowlavi, A. Maeder 341 -- 37 Supernovae in Galactic evolution: direct and indirect metallicity effects / C. Frohlich, R. Hirschi, M. Liebendorfer, F.-K. Thielemann, G. Martinez Pinedo, E. Bravo 354 -- 38 Progenitor evolution of Type-I supernovae: evolution and implications for yields / Sung-Chul Yoon 369 -- 39 Star formation in the metal-rich Universe / I.A. Bonnell 380 -- 40 Metallicity of Solar-type main-sequence stars: seismic tests / S. Vauclair 393 -- 41 Chemical-abundance gradients in early-type galaxies / P. Sanchez-Blazquez 403 -- 42 Oxygen-rich droplets and the enrichment of the interstellar medium / G. Stasinska, G. Tenorio-Tagle, M. Rodriguez, W.J. Henney 409 -- Part VII Chemical and photometric evolution beyond Solar metallicity 413 -- 43 Models of the Solar vicinity: the metal-rich stage / L. Carigi 415 -- 44 Chemical-evolution models of ellipticals and bulges / F. Matteucci 428 -- 45 Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge / B. Gibson, A.J. MacDonald, P. Sanchez-Blazquez, L. Carigi 441 -- 46 How do galaxies become metal-rich? An examination of the yield problem / M.G. Edmunds 447 -- 47 Abundance patterns: thick and thin disks / C. Chiappini 454 -- 48 Formation and evolution of the Galactic bulge: constraints from stellar abundances / S.K. Ballero, F. Matteucci, L. Origlia 460
Summary Metal-rich stars accumulate their metals from previous generations of stars, & contain the history of their galaxy. By studying these stars we can gain valuable insights into how metals change the formation & evolution of stars, & explain the extraordinary massive star populations observed in our own galaxy
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Notes English
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Subject Cosmic abundances.
Metal-rich stars.
Stars.
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
Cosmic abundances
Metal-rich stars
Stars
Form Electronic book
Author Israelian, Garik.
Meynet, G.
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