Chemical Evolution of Galaxies

Abstract

Chemical evolution of galaxies brings together ideas on stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis with theories of galaxy formation, star formation and galaxy evolution, with all their associated uncertainties. In a new perspective brought about by the Hubble Deep Field and follow-up investigations of global star formation rates, diffuse background etc., it has become necessary to consider the chemical composition of dark baryonic matter as well as that of visible matter in galaxies.

6 pages, AAS LaTeX macros v5.0, Millennium Essay to appear in PASP, Feb 2001

References in corpus (6)

• On The Cosmic Origins Of Carbon And Nitrogen
• Intervening O VI Quasar Absorption Systems at Low Redshift: A Significant Baryon Reservoir
• Strong Balmer lines in old stellar populations: No need for young ages in ellipticals?
• Si and Mn Abundances in Damped Lya Systems with Low Dust Content
• New CMB constraints on the cosmic matter budget: trouble for nucleosynthesis?
• The Metallicity Distribution Function of Red Giants in the LMC

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• The Cosmic Baryon and Metal Cycles
• The Extragalactic Background Light and the Gamma-ray Opacity of the Universe
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• Cosmological Origin of the Stellar Velocity Dispersions in Massive Early-Type Galaxies
• A new delay time distribution for merging neutron stars tested against Galactic and cosmic data
• Abundance-age relations with red clump stars in open clusters
• Cosmic metal production and the mean metallicity of the Universe
• On the Measurement of Elemental Abundance Ratios in Inner Galaxy H II Regions
• Spitzer Observations of M83 and the Hot Star, H II Region Connection
• Chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies with a variable IMF -- A publicly available code
• Galactic archaeology: IMF and depletion in the "thin disk"
• Low-metallicity Young Clusters in the Outer Galaxy I. Sh 2-207
• The Age of Cluster Galaxies from Continuum Colors
• Three-dimensional hydrodynamical CO5BOLD model atmospheres of red giant stars. IV. Oxygen diagnostics in extremely metal-poor red giants with infrared OH lines
• Ellipticals at z=0 from Self-Consistent Hydrodynamical Simulations: Clues on Age Effects in their Stellar Populations