New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics II: Ultraviolet Properties of Evolved Stellar Populations

Front Matter....Pages 1-15
The Rest-Frame UV Spectrum of Elliptical Galaxies at High Redshift....Pages 1-10
Rest-Frame UV and Visible Properties of Early Type Galaxies at 1 < z < 2....Pages 1-8
Effect of Reionization on High-z Stellar Populations....Pages 1-6
Near UV Properties of Early–Type Galaxies at z ~ 1....Pages 1-5
High Redshift Simulations Using the GALEX Ultraviolet Images of Nearby Galaxies....Pages 1-4
GALEX Studies of Early-type Galaxies: the UV Rising Flux and Residual Star Formation....Pages 1-16
UV Excess and AGB Evolution in Elliptical-Galaxy Stellar Populations....Pages 1-7
Binary Stars as the Source of the Far-UV Excess in Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 1-8
Stellar Populations in Field Early–Type Galaxies....Pages 1-8
GALEX UV Observations of Elliptical Galaxies in Abell Clusters at z < 0.2....Pages 1-7
Near-UV Merger Signatures in Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 1-6
The Chemical Composition of Elliptical Galaxies Through Mid-UV Indices....Pages 1-4
Colours of the Envelopes of cD Galaxies....Pages 1-6
A Morphological Study of M81: Comparison Between GALEX and Spitzer Imaging....Pages 1-6
The Impact of Encounters on the Members of Local Group Analogs. A View from GALEX ....Pages 1-4
GALEX UV Spectroscopy of Extended Objects: The Case of NGC3079....Pages 1-4
An Atlas of GALEX UV Spectra Selected from the CDFS....Pages 1-4
Weak X-ray Galaxies in the Chandra Deep Field South: Searching for an Early Stage of Star Formation....Pages 1-4
UV Observations of Galactic Globular Clusters....Pages 1-8
Globular Clusters with the Extended Horizontal-Branch as Remaining Cores of Galaxy Building Blocks....Pages 1-5
The Blue Straggler Star Radial Distribution: Clues on Formation Mechanisms....Pages 1-6
Infant Mortality of Star Clusters: on the Origin of the Diffuse UV Emission....Pages 1-6
Are the Compact Star Clusters in M82 Evolving Towards Globular Clusters?....Pages 1-10
NGC 4214: Cluster Properties Derived from Multi-band Photometry....Pages 1-5
UV Spectroscopic Indices of Galactic Globular Clusters....Pages 1-4
The Extended Emission of Ultracompact HII Regions: An Overview and New Observations....Pages 1-8
Horizontal Branch Stars and the Ultraviolet Universe....Pages 1-16
Subdwarf B and O Stars: Which Evolutionary Pathways?....Pages 1-8
Computing Solar Absolute Fluxes....Pages 1-11
Recent Progress in Modeling Stellar Atmospheres....Pages 1-12
Ultraviolet Stellar and Cluster Spectra Compared to Theoretical Templates....Pages 1-8
A Novel Precise Method for Correcting the Temperature in Stellar Atmosphere Models....Pages 1-8
New Model Atmospheres: Testing the Solar Spectrum in the UV....Pages 1-6
Photoionization, Recombination, and Radiative Transitions of Atoms and Ions....Pages 1-14
Recombination rates, Resonance Strengths and Line Profiles of Dielectronic Satellite Lines of He-like Ca, Fe, Ni....Pages 1-4
Population Synthesis at Short Wavelengths and Spectrophotometric Diagnostic Tools for Galaxy Evolution....Pages 1-9
Constraining Galaxy Evolution With Hubble’s Next Generation Spectral Library....Pages 1-10
Spectral Evolution and Line Strength Indices in the UV....Pages 1-10
Synthesis Models in a Probabilistic Framework: Metrics of Fitting....Pages 1-8
World Space Observatory-UltraViolet: International Space Mission for the Nearest Future....Pages 1-8
The Focal-plane Instruments on Board WSO-UV....Pages 1-10
Science with the World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet....Pages 1-10
Introducing UVIT....Pages 1-8
Efficiency of Selected UV Space Based Spectrometers....Pages 1-4
Astronomy at the University of Guadalajara....Pages 1-6
Back Matter....Pages 1-1