عنوان

Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Large Structures in the Universe

(Number (ISBN

9400972458

(Number (ISBN

9789400972452

Number

b593817

Title Proper

Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Large Structures in the Universe

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Jean Audouze, Jean Tran Thanh Van.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1983

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(472 pages)

Series Title

NATO ASI series., Series C,, Mathematical and physical sciences ;, 117.

Text of Note

I - Cosmology of the very early universe and fundamental interactions.- Primordial Inflation and Super cosmology.- Remarks on the quark-hadron transition in the early Universe.- Mass bounds on a dileptonic system from cosmoLogy.- Cosmological constant and Friedmann Universes.- II - Large structures: Pancakes - Clusters of galaxies.- Dark matter and shocked pancakes.- Pancakes, hot gas and microwave distortions.- Spectrum of the cosmic background radiation.- Is the Universe made of massive neutrinos?.- The pregalactic Universe and the formation of large scale structure.- Large soa I e inhomogeneities and galaxy sta t istios.- Clusters of galaxies as indioators of galaxy origin.- III - Massive halos.- Are massive halos baryonic?.- What is the dark matter? Implications for galaxy formation and particle physics.- Dark matter, galaxies and globular clusters.- CosmoLogical constraints on neutrinos and other "inos" and the "missing light" problem.- Blaok halos and dwarf galaxies.- Mass-to-light ratios of spiral galaxies.- IV - Pregalactic stars and early nucleosynthesis.- Pregalaotio aotivity, galaxy formation and hidden mass.- On the nature of the first stars.- On the forma tion of population II stars via thermal instability.- Possible synthesis of deuterium and lithium by pregaLactic massive stars.- Deuterium and lithium from population III remnants.- Chemioal evolution of the light elements and the Big Bang nuoleosynthesis.- V - Structure and dynamical evolution of galaxies.- Struoture and evolution of triaxial galaxies.- Are N-body potentials of Eddington form ?.- Secular dynamical evolution of galaxies.- A galaxy distribution funotion ?.- The thickness of galactic disks.- Heating of stellar disks by massive objects.- The origin of rotation in galaxies and clusters.- Rotation, dissipation and elliptioal galaxies.- VI - Chemical evolution of galaxies.- Nucleosynthesis constraints on early galactic evolution.- Stocnastic star formation in dwarf irregular galaxies.- The oxygen anomaly in metal poor stars.- "Liners" and Abundance in galactic nuclei.- Author index.

Parallel Title

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, La Plagne, France, March, 1983

Physics.

edited by Jean Audouze, Jean Tran Thanh Van.

Jean Audouze

Jean Tran Thanh Van

Electronic name

[Book]

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