Chemical Evolution from Zero to High Redshift: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 14–16 October 1998

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Chemical Abundances of Local “Unevolved” Stars....Pages 1-9
Supernova Nucleosynthesis: Models vs. Observations....Pages 10-23
Abundance Gradients from Massive, Early-Type Stars — the Milky Way and Beyond....Pages 24-29
Galactic H II Region Abundances....Pages 30-38
Nebular Abundances from Recombination Lines....Pages 39-43
Abundances in Interstellar Gas....Pages 44-53
Constraints on the Nature of Interstellar Dust....Pages 54-59
UV Spectral Synthesis for Iron Group Elements in A Supergiants....Pages 60-60
Be Abundance in Li-Rich Giants....Pages 61-61
The “Abundance Attractor” and the Primordial Lithium Enigma....Pages 62-62
Field Blue Stragglers: the Chemical Composition Revisited....Pages 63-63
The RGB Bump as a Metallicity Indicator for Globular Clusters....Pages 64-64
Observing Boron in Metal-Poor Stars....Pages 65-65
Oxygen Abundance in Solar-Type Stars....Pages 66-66
Galactic Oxygen Abundance and Gradient from Photometry of H II Regions....Pages 67-67
Small-Scale Structure in the Orion Nebula — Evidence for High Density Condensations....Pages 68-68
Chemical Abundances of Planetary Nebulae in the Galaxy and LMC....Pages 69-70
Photo-Ionization Modelling of New Planetary Nebulae Within 2° of the Galactic Center....Pages 71-71
The s-Process Elements Cadmium and Tin....Pages 72-72
Abundance Ratios in Galactic Bulge Stars....Pages 73-82
Abundance Gradients in the Galactic Disk: a Clue to Galaxy Formation....Pages 83-92
Chemical Evolution of the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 93-102
Detection of Extragalactic 15 N: Nitrogen Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution....Pages 103-108
Chemical Abundances At Large Galactocentric Radii: A Progress Report....Pages 109-113
Gas Flows and the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies....Pages 114-119
Chemo-Spectral Evolution of the Milky Way and of Spiral Disks....Pages 120-120
NLTE Analyses of Magellanic Cloud B Stars....Pages 121-121
Alpha-Elements Differential Abundances in M33 B-Supergiants....Pages 122-122
Extragalactic Stellar Abundances: Oxygen in Extreme A-Type Supergiants....Pages 123-123
Backyard Cosmology: Abundance Observations of Nearby Galaxies....Pages 124-133
Empirical Calibrations of Nebular Abundances: The Sulphur Abundance Parameter....Pages 134-138
Abundances in Spiral and Irregular Galaxies in the Local Universe....Pages 139-148
Heavy Element Abundances in the Most Metal-Deficient Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 149-153
Chemical Evolution of Low Mass Disc Galaxies....Pages 154-159
On the Oxygen Abundance Deficiency in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 160-160
Spectrophotometric Analysis of HII Regions in the Galaxy NGC 4258....Pages 161-161
Diffuse Warm and Hot Gas in I Zw 18....Pages 162-162
The Role of Starbursts in the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies....Pages 163-163
Metallicity of Dwarf Galaxies in Clusters....Pages 164-165
Chemical Evolution and Abundance Ratios in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies....Pages 166-166
Constraints on the Chemical Evolution of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies from CMDs....Pages 167-167
Elliptical Galaxy Chemical Evolution....Pages 168-174
Effects of the Environment on Star Formation and Abundances in Galaxies....Pages 175-184
Chemical Evolution on the Scale of Clusters of Galaxies, and Beyond....Pages 185-196
Enrichment of the Intracluster Medium....Pages 197-201
Stellar Population in a High Density Environment: Elliptical Galaxies in the Coma Cluster....Pages 202-202
The Effects of Cluster Environment on the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies....Pages 203-203
The Chemical Composition of Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift....Pages 204-212
Dust and Molecules at High Redshift....Pages 213-221
Molecules in the Shell of Quasars 1556+3517 and 0840+3633....Pages 222-226
The N V/C IV Ratio in High Redshift Radio Galaxies....Pages 227-232
Element Abundances at High Redshifts....Pages 233-245
Early Metal Formation and the Intergalactic Medium....Pages 246-255
Predicting Spectral Properties of DLA Galaxies....Pages 256-261
Search for a High-Redshift Damped Lyman-Alpha Absorber with NICMOS....Pages 262-267
The Contribution of Galaxies to the Ionising Background Radiation....Pages 268-273
Origin of the Continuum in High Redshift Radio Galaxies....Pages 274-274
Element Abundances in Damped Lyman-Alpha Quasar Absorbers....Pages 275-275
Interpreting the Redshift Evolution of DLA Galaxies....Pages 276-276
The Metal Systems in the Line of Sight Towards GB1759+7539....Pages 277-277
The z = 1.6748 C I Absorber Toward the QSO PKS 1756+237....Pages 278-278
DLA at Low and Intermediate Redshift....Pages 279-279
Present and Forthcoming UV Missions....Pages 280-289
Prospects for Chemical Evolution Studies in the Infrared....Pages 290-296
Abundance Determinations Through Astrophysical X-Ray Spectroscopy....Pages 297-304
Conference Summary....Pages 305-309
Back Matter....Pages 311-315