Searching for the oldest stars : ancient relics from the early universe /

Astronomers study the oldest observable stars in the universe in much the same way that archaeologists study ancient artifacts on Earth. Here, Anna Frebel--who is credited with discovering several of the oldest and most primitive stars using the world's largest telescopes--takes readers into th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frebel, Anna (Autor)
Otros Autores: Hentschel, Ann M. (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Stars > Age.
Stars > Evolution.
Astronomy > Observations.
Cosmology.
Étoiles > Âge.
Étoiles > Évolution.
Astronomie > Observations.
Cosmologie.
cosmology.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
SCIENCE > General.
Astronomy.
Stellare Archäologie
Metallarmer Stern
Kosmologie
Forschung
(fast)Stars > Age.
(fast)Stars > Formation.
Observations.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • An Introductory Remark
  • 1 WHAT IS STELLAR ARCHAEOLOGY?
  • 1.1 The First Minutes after the Big Bang
  • 1.2 Stellar Archaeology
  • 2 TWO CENTURIES OF PURSUING STARS
  • 2.1 First Glimpses of Stellar Rainbows
  • 2.2 Decoding Starlight
  • 2.3 A New Perspective of the Cosmos
  • 2.4 Looking into the Hearts of Stars
  • 2.5 Modern Alchemy
  • 2.6 The Foundation of Cosmology
  • 2.7 The Origin of the Elements
  • 3 STARS, STARS, MORE STARS
  • 3.1 The Cycle of Matter in the Universe
  • 3.2 Astronomers and Their Metals
  • 3.3 Element Nucleosynthesis in the Cosmic Kitchen
  • 3.4 Stellar Diversity
  • 4 STELLAR EVOLUTION-FROM BIRTH TO DEATH
  • 4.1 Sorting Stars
  • 4.2 A Protostar Forms
  • 4.3 The Evolution of a Low-Mass Star
  • 4.4 The Evolution of a Massive Star
  • 4.5 Supernovae and Supernova Remnants
  • 4.6 Preliminary Thoughts about Working with Metal-Poor Stars
  • 5 NEUTRON-CAPTURE PROCESSES AND THE HEAVIEST ELEMENTS
  • 5.1 How Neon Lamps Relate to Giant Stars-Element Synthesis in the S-Process
  • 5.2 Thorium, Uranium, and R-Process Element Synthesis
  • 5.3 Cosmo-Chronometry: The Oldest Stars
  • 5.4 Nuclear Astrophysics
  • 6 WELCOME TO OUR MILKY WAY
  • 6.1 A Milky Way above Us
  • 6.2 The Milky Way's Structure
  • 6.3 Dwarf Galaxies
  • 6.4 Star Clusters
  • 6.5 Naming Stars
  • 7 TALES TOLD BY LIGHT
  • 7.1 A Little Lexicon of Light
  • 7.2 Spectroscopy-Deciphering Starlight
  • 7.3 Element Abundance Analyses of Stars
  • 7.4 The Largest Telescopes in the World
  • 7.5 Three Steps toward Success
  • 7.6 Observations with MIKE
  • 8 LET'S GO OBSERVE SOME STARS!
  • 8.1 Going Stargazing
  • 8.2 Good-Weather Beer
  • 8.3 A Sunset
  • 8.4 The Observa-thon
  • 8.5 One Hundred and Five Stars per Night
  • 8.6 Computers, Computers ...
  • 8.7 Tested by Fire
  • 9 THE CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE.
  • 9.1 The First Stars in the Universe
  • 9.2 The Family of Metal-Poor Stars
  • 9.3 The Most Iron-Poor Stars
  • 9.4 The Cosmic Chemical Evolution
  • 10 FINDING THE OLDEST STARS
  • 10.1 Pursuing Metal-Poor Stars
  • 10.2 Bright Metal-Poor Stars
  • 10.3 Mt. Stromlo Succumbs to Bushfires
  • 10.4 The Discovery of a Record-Breaking Most Iron-Poor Star
  • 10.5 The Astronomical Community
  • 11 AT THE END OF A COSMIC JOURNEY
  • 11.1 Cosmological Simulations
  • 11.2 Where Do Metal-Poor Stars Come From?
  • 11.3 Expectations of Future Surveys
  • 11.4 The Next Generation of Giant Telescopes
  • 11.5 Little Diamonds in the Sky
  • Further Reading
  • Index.

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