New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics: The Link Between Stars and Cosmology: Proceedings of the International Conference held in Puerto Vallarta, México, 26–30 March 2001

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Few Things We Do Not Know about Stars and Model Atmospheres....Pages 3-14
Cool Stellar Atmospheres....Pages 15-26
A Critical Appraisal of Atlas9 and Nextgen5 Model Atmospheres....Pages 27-28
A Precise New Method to Correcting Temperature in Stellar Atmospheres....Pages 29-32
New Phenomena Discovered in the Atmospheres of Normal Late-B Type Stars....Pages 33-36
Heating the Quiet Corona by Explosive Events in UV: Results from “Sumer” on Board Soho....Pages 37-38
A Grid of Synthetic Stellar UV Fluxes....Pages 39-40
A Grid of LTE Zero-Metallicity Stellar Fluxes....Pages 41-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
The Evolutionary Properties of Zero Metal Stars in the Mass Range between 4 and 100 M ⊙ ....Pages 47-54
The Peculiar Evolution of Low-Mass Pop III Stars....Pages 55-58
Zero-Metal Stellar Yields, the IMF for Population III and Nucleosynthetic Constraints....Pages 59-62
The Stellar IMF in Very Metal-Deficient Gas....Pages 63-68
Cosmological Origin of the Lowest Metallicity Halo Stars....Pages 69-72
Cosmological Chemistry and the Formation of the First Objects....Pages 73-76
The Primordial Li: New Observations....Pages 77-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Star Formation History in the Solar Neighborhood: The Link Between Stars and Cosmology....Pages 83-90
Carbon and Oxygen Galactic Abundance Gradients Predicted by Different Stellar Yields....Pages 91-94
The Upper end of the Galactic Metallicity Scale....Pages 95-102
Spectral Indices of Stars at Super-Solar Regime....Pages 103-106
The Proper Motion of the Globular Cluster NGC 6553 and of Bulge Stars with HST....Pages 107-110
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Update on Globular Cluster Ages....Pages 111-118
A Survey of Open Clusters at San Pedro Mártir....Pages 119-120
About the IMF in Young Stellar Clusters....Pages 121-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Reconstructing Star Formation Episodes in the Local Group....Pages 127-130
Deep Studies of the Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts Of M31....Pages 131-134
Comments on Binary Star Evolution and the Small Magellanic Cloud System HD 5980....Pages 135-138
Stellar Metallicities Beyond the Local Group with VLT/FORS....Pages 139-142
An Estimate of H 0 Using Cepheid Period Luminosity Relations at Maximum Light....Pages 143-146
Hα Luminosity Function Of H II Regions: Preliminary Calibration of a Powerful Standard Candle....Pages 147-150
On the Behavior of the Ionized Gas in NGC 4449....Pages 151-152
NGC 5044-N50: A Link Between Blue Compact Galaxies and Dwarf Ellipticals....Pages 153-154
Star Formation in Ring Galaxies....Pages 155-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Recent Star Formation in Galaxies....Pages 159-166
Extinction and Star Formation Histories of Nearby Starburst Galaxies....Pages 167-170
Dust and Nebular Emission in Star Forming Galaxies....Pages 171-174
Modeling the Radio to X-ray Sed of Galaxies....Pages 175-180
Population Synthesis in the Blue and the Spectroscopic Age of 47 Tucanae....Pages 181-184
On the Properties of Population III Stars and “Galaxies”....Pages 185-188
Population Synthesis and the Diagnostics of High-Redshift Galaxies....Pages 189-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Explosive Yields of Metal-Free SNII and the Abundances in Extremely Metal-Poor Stars....Pages 199-206
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
The First Detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha System....Pages 207-210
Type IB-IC Supernovae: Time Clocks of Seyfert Galaxies?....Pages 211-214
On the Evolution of Cosmological Type IA Supernovae and the Gravitational Constant....Pages 215-222
Lifting the Veil: γ-Ray Bursts as Beacons for Cosmic Star Formation....Pages 223-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Stars and Gas in High Redshift Galaxies....Pages 229-240
Abundances in Damped LYα Systems....Pages 241-248
High Redshift Galaxies and the Inter-Galactic Medium....Pages 249-252
Dust Penetrated Morphology in the High Redshift Universe....Pages 253-256
The Dusty Star Formation History of High-Z Galaxies, Modeling Tools and Future Prospects....Pages 257-264
On the Calibration of Star Formation Rates....Pages 265-268
Excursions into the Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 269-276
Optical Identification of X-ray Sources in a High X-ray Flux Sensitivity area from the Rass....Pages 277-278
Intermediate Resolution Hβ Spectroscopy and Photometric Monitoring of 3C 390.3....Pages 279-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
From Protostars to Galaxies with GTM/LMT....Pages 283-294
Searching for an Early Epoch of Star Formation with MM/Sub-MM Blank Field Surveys....Pages 295-296
The Creation and Evolution of Galaxies in the Universe: Millimeter Cosmology @INAOE....Pages 297-298
21-cm Emission from the Damped Lyman-α Absorber SBS 1543+593....Pages 299-302
Cosmological Parameters and the Baryon Density from CMB and Galaxy Fluctuations....Pages 303-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-314