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Tables of Contents for New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics
Chapter/Section Title
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Preface
xi
Part I Stellar Atmospheres
A Few Things We Do Not Know About Stars and Model Atmospheres
3
12
R. L. Kurucz
Cool Stellar Atmospheres
15
12
P. H. Hauschildt
A. Schweitzer
F. Allard
J. W. Ferguson
D. Alexander
E. Baron
A Critical Appraisal of ATLAS9 and NextGen5 Model Atmospheres
27
2
E. Bertone
A. Buzzoni
M. Chavez
L. H. Rodriguez-Merino
A Precise New Method to Correcting Temperature in Stellar Atmospheres
29
4
O. Cardona
L. Crivellari
E. Simonneau
New Phenomena Discovered in the Atmospheres of Normal Late-B Type Stars
33
4
S. Hubrig
G. M. Wahlgren
F. Castelli
Heating the Quiet Corona by Explosive Events in UV: Results from Sumer on board SoHO
37
2
J. P. Torres-Papaqui
E. Mendoza
A Grid of Synthetic Stellar UV Fluxes
39
2
L. H. Rodriguez-Merino
M. Chavez
A. Buzzoni
E. Bertone
A Grid of LTE Zero-Metallicity Stellar Fluxes
41
6
M. Chavez
O. Cardona
Part II Population III and Zero-Metal Stars
The Evolutionary Properties of Zero-Metal Stars in the Mass Range Between 4 and 100 M
47
8
A. Chieffi
M. Limongi
I. Dominguez
O. Straniero
The Peculiar Evolution of Low-Mass Pop III Stars
55
4
H. Schlattl
S. Cassisi
A. Weiss
M. Salaris
Zero-Metal Stellar Yields, the IMF for Population III and Nucleosynthetic Constraints
59
4
C. Abia
I. Dominguez
O. Straniero
M. Limongi
A. Chieffi
J. Isern
The Stellar IMF in Very Metal-Deficient Gas
63
6
F. Nakamura
M. Umemura
Cosmological Origin of the Lowest Metallicity Halo Stars
69
4
X. Hernandez
A. Ferrara
Cosmological Chemistry and the Formation of the First Objects
73
4
A. Lipovka
J. Saucedo
J. Campos
I. Soto
The Primordial Li: New Observations
77
6
P. Bonifacio
Part III Stars in the Milky Way
Star Formation History in the Solar Neighborhood: the Link Between Stars and Cosmology
83
8
V. Avila-Reese
C. Firmani
X. Hernandez
Carbon and Oxygen Galactic Abundance Gradients Predicted by Different Stellar Yields
91
4
L. Carigi
The Upper End of the Galactic Metallicity Scale
95
8
B. J. Taylor
Spectral Indices of Stars at Super-solar Regime
103
4
A. Buzzoni
M. Chavez
M. L. Malagnini
C. Morossi
The Proper Motion of the Globular Cluster NGC 6553 and of Bulge Stars with HST
107
4
M. Zoccali
A. Renzini
S. Ortolani
E. Bica
B. Barbuy
Update on Globular Cluster Ages
111
8
P. Demarque
Y. C. Kim
S. Yi
A Survey of Open Clusters at San Pedro Martir
119
2
A. Moitinho
W. Schuster
C. Chavarria
About the IMF in Young Stellar Clusters
121
6
A. Porras
I. Cruz-Gonzalez
L. Salas
Part IV Stars in Local Galaxies
Reconstructing Star Formation Episodes in the Local Group
127
4
D. Valls-Gabaud
X. Hernandez
G. Gilmore
Deep Studies of the Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts of M31
131
4
A. M. N. Ferguson
Comments on Binary Star Evolution and the Small Magellanic Cloud System HD 5980
135
4
G. Koenigsberger
E. Moreno
Stellar Metallicities Beyond the Local Group with VLT/FORS
139
4
N. Przybilla
F. Bresolin
R. H. Mendez
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
An Estimate of H0 using Cepheid Period Luminosity Relations at Maximum Light
143
4
S. M. Kanbur
S. Nikolaev
Ha Luminosity Function of H II Regions: Preliminary Calibration of a Powerful Standard Candle
147
4
M. Rozas
A. Cardwell
A. Zurita
J. E. Beckman
On the Behavior of the Ionized Gas in NGC 4449
151
2
M. Valdez-Gutierrez
M. Rosado
I. Puerari
NGC 5044-N50: a Link Between Blue Compact Galaxies and Dwarf Ellipticals
153
2
S. A. Cellone
A. Buzzoni
Star Formation in Ring Galaxies
155
4
Y. D. Mayya
R. Romano
Part V Population Synthesis and Galaxy Models
Recent Star Formation in Galaxies
159
8
A. Bressan
Extinction and Star Formation Histories of Nearby Starburst Galaxies
167
4
Y. D. Mayya
A. Bressan
M. Rodriguez
J. R. Valdes
Dust and Nebular Emission in Star Forming Galaxies
171
4
P. Panuzzo
A. Bressan
G. L. Granato
L. Silva
L. Danese
Modeling the Radio to X-ray SED of Galaxies
175
6
L. Silva
A. Bressan
G. L. Granato
P. Panuzzo
Population Synthesis in the Blue and the Spectroscopic Age of 47 Tucanae
181
4
R. P. Schiavon
S. M. Faber
J. A. Rose
On the Properties of Population III Stars and ``Galaxies''
185
4
D. Schaerer
Population Synthesis and the Diagnostics of High-Redshift Galaxies
189
10
A. Buzzoni
Part VI High-Mass Stellar Products and Cosmology
Explosive Yields of Metal Free SNII and the Abundances in Extremely Metal Poor Stars
199
8
M. Limongi
A. Chieffi
O. Straniero
I. Dominguez
The First Detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha System
207
4
S. L. Ellison
S. G. Ryan
J. X. Prochaska
Type Ib-Ic Supernovae: Time Clocks of Seyfert Galaxies?
211
4
A. Bressan
P. Marziani
M. Della Valle
On the Evolution of Cosmological Type Ia Supernovae and the Gravitational Constant
215
8
E. Garcia-Berro
E. Gaztanaga
J. Isern
O. Benvenuto
L. Althaus
Lifting the Veil: γ-Ray Bursts as Beacons for Cosmic Star Formation
223
6
E. Ramirez-Ruiz
N. Trentham
A. W. Blain
Part VII Stellar Environments in High-Redshift Galaxies
Stars and Gas in High Redshift Galaxies
229
12
M. Pettini
Abundances in Damped Lyα Systems
241
8
P. Molaro
High Redshift Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium
249
4
R. A. C. Croft
V. Springel
L. Hernquist
M. White
Dust Penetrated Morphology in the High Redshift Universe
253
4
D. L. Block
I. Puerari
M. Takamiya
R. Abraham
A. Stockton
I. Robson
W. Holland
The Dusty Star Formation History of High-z Galaxies, Modeling Tools and Future Prospects
257
8
G. L. Granato
L. Silva
On the Calibration of Star Formation Rates
265
4
D. Rosa-Gonzalez
E. Terlevich
R. Terlevich
Excursions into the Evolution of Early-type Galaxies
269
8
O. Lopez-Cruz
D. Schade
L. F. Barrientos
M. D. Gladders
H.K.C. Yee
T. Kodama
Optical Identification of X-ray Sources in a High X-ray Flux Sensitivity Area from the RASS
277
2
R. Mujica
F. J. Zickgraf
V. Chavushyan
Y. Juarez
A. Serrano
I. Appenzeller
J. Krautter
Intermediate Resolution Hβ Spectroscopy and Photometric Monitoring of 3C 390.3
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4
J. R. Valdes
L. Carrasco
V. H. Chavushyan
F. Legrand
A. I. Shapovalova
A. N. Burenkov
V. V. Vlasuyk
V. P. Mikhailov
O. I. Spiridonova
A. M. Dumont
S. Collin
V. T. Doroshenko
V. M. Lyuty
N. G. Bochkarev
O. Kurtanidze
M. G. Nikolashvili
Part VIII New Insights from Radio and Millimeter Spectral Windows
From protostars to galaxies with GTM/LMT
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12
L. Carrasco
A. Carraminana
Searching for an Early Epoch of Star Formation with mm/sub-mm Blank Field Surveys
295
2
E. Chapin
D. H. Hughes
E. Gaztanaga
I. Aretxaga
The Creation and Evolution of Galaxies in the Universe: Millimeter Cosmology @ INAOE
297
2
E. Gaztanaga
D. H. Hughes
E. Chapin
I. Aretxaga
21-cm Emission from the Damped Lyman-α Absorber SBS 1543+593
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4
D. V. Bowen
E. Brinks
W. Huchtmeier
T. M. Tripp
E. B. Jenkins
Cosmological Parameters and the Baryon Density from CMB and Galaxy Fluctuations
303
6
E. Gaztanaga
J. Barriga
M. G. Santos
S. Sarkar
List of Participants
309