Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 232 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139152303
Series Statement:
Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
Content:
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
Content:
The formation of the Milky Way in the CDM paradigm / K.C. Freeman -- Dark matter content and tidal effects in Local Group dwarf galaxies / Steven R. Majewski -- Notes on the missing satellites problem / James Bullock -- The Milky Way satellite galaxies as critical tests of contemporary cosmological theory / P. Kroupa -- Stellar tidal streams / R. Ibata -- Tutorial : The analysis of colour-magnitude diagrams / D. Valls-Gabaud -- Tutorial : Modelling tidal streams using N-body simulations / J. Peñarrubia
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107023802
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107023802
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139152303
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