Local group cosmology

• Titel: Local group cosmology
• Mitwirkende: Martínez-Delgado, David [Hrsg.]
• Körperschaft: Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
• Verf.angabe: [edited by] David Martínez-Delgado, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
• Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2013
• Umfang: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xviii, 232 pages))
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
• Fussnoten: Lectures presented at the XX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, held in Tenerife, Spain, November 17-18, 2008. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record ; Includes bibliographical references ; Description based on print version record
• ISBN: 978-1-306-21170-3
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41789-2
• Schlagwörter: (g)Lokale Gruppe
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Druckausg.: Local Group cosmology. - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2013. - XVIII, 232 S
• Reproduktion: Druckausg.:: : Local group cosmology
• Sach-SW: Local Group (Astronomy) ; Congresses
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 78751764X

Abstract

Aimed at graduate students and young researchers, this volume presents observational techniques, tools, and models for studying Local Group galaxies.

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- List of contributors -- List of participants -- Preface -- Background -- Scientific rationale -- Outline of the school -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 The formation of the Milky Way in the CDM paradigm -- K. C. FREEMAN -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 The structure of the inner dark halo -- 1.1.2 The number of predicted satellites -- 1.1.3 Formation of disks with small or no bulges -- 1.1.4 The high merger rate in CDM -- 1.1.5 The low predicted baryonic angular momentum -- 1.1.6 The high predicted fraction of baryons converted into stars -- 1.1.7 Reconstructing Galaxy formation -- 1.1.8 Signatures remembered from each phase -- 1.1.9 The metal-poor stellar halo -- 1.1.10 General references -- 1.2 Dynamical processes which lose information -- 1.2.1 Accretion and destruction of satellites -- 1.2.2 The metal-poor stellar halo -- 1.2.3 Some unpleasant stellar dynamical effects -- 1.2.4 Radial mixing -- 1.3 The Galactic bulge and the globular clusters -- 1.3.1 Different kinds of bulges -- 1.3.2 The Galactic bar-bulge -- 1.3.3 The Galactic globular clusters -- 1.4 Data: sources and techniques -- 1.4.1 Stellar data -- 1.4.2 Observational techniques -- 1.5 The Galactic disk -- 1.5.1 The thin disk -- 1.5.2 The thick disk -- 1.5.3 Galactic archaeology: fossil recovery by chemical tagging -- REFERENCES -- 2 Dark matter content and tidal effects in Local Group dwarf galaxies -- STEVEN R. MAJEWSKI -- 2.1 Somewhat historical: overview of the Local Group, dwarf galaxies, and their observed structures -- 2.1.1 The Local Group in context -- 2.1.2 Galaxy content of the Local Group and the origin of morphological differences -- 2.1.3 The classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies -- 2.1.4 The ultrafaint dwarf galaxies -- 2.2 Evidence for dark matter in Local Group dwarf galaxies -- 2.2.1 Measuring dwarf galaxy masses.