Full Description
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."
Contents
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 populations 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



