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Local Group Cosmology (Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics) - Hardcover

 
9781107023802: Local Group Cosmology (Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1107023807 ISBN 13: 9781107023802
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

One of the most fascinating unresolved problems of modern astrophysics is how the galaxies we observe today were formed. The Lambda-Cold Dark Matter paradigm predicts that large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way formed through accretion and tidal disruption of satellite galaxies. The galaxies of the Local Group provide the best laboratory in which to investigate these galaxy formation processes because they can be studied with sufficiently high resolution to exhume fossils of galactic evolution embedded in the spatial distribution, kinematics, and chemical abundances of their oldest stars. Based on the twentieth Winter School of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics, this volume provides a firm grounding for graduate students and early career researchers working on Local Group cosmology. It presents modules from eight eminent and experienced scientists at the forefront of Local Group research, and includes overviews of observational techniques, diagnostic tools, and various theoretical models.

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About the Author

David Martínez-Delgado is an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, and at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107023807
ISBN 13 
9781107023802
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
246
Editor
Martínez-Delgado David