The Evolution of The Milky Way

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
The Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way: Some Important Facts....Pages 3-13
Abundance Ratios in Galactic Metal-Poor Stars....Pages 15-26
S/α/Fe Abundance Ratios in Halo Field Stars: Is There a Globular Cluster Connection?....Pages 27-33
Early Galactic Evolution of Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen....Pages 35-46
The Origin and Kinematical Evolution of SMR Stars....Pages 47-57
Abundances in Supernovae....Pages 59-74
Observations of Candidate SMR Stars....Pages 75-79
Planetary Nebulae: Abundances and Abundance Gradients....Pages 81-92
Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Stellar Evolution and Populations....Pages 93-100
Clump Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood....Pages 101-107
Mixing Along the Red Giant Branch in Metal-Poor Field Stars....Pages 109-114
The Metal Abundance of Galactic Cepheids as Derived from Their Pulsational Properties....Pages 115-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-124
Wolf-Rayet Stars, Binaries, Black Holes....Pages 125-138
The Evolution of Binaries....Pages 139-150
The Origin of X-Ray Pulsars in Binary Systems....Pages 151-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-164
Metal Abundances in Globular Clusters....Pages 165-183
On the Globular Cluster IMF Below 1 M ⊙ ....Pages 185-196
The Effect of CNO and Enhanced α-Elements on Globular Cluster Stars....Pages 197-203
HST-UV Observations of Stellar Clusters: Looking for BSS....Pages 205-211
HST — WFPC2 Photometry of the Globular Cluster NGC 288: Binary Systems, Blue Stragglers and Very Blue Stars....Pages 213-219
Front Matter....Pages 163-164
Infrared Observations of Stellar Clusters....Pages 221-227
Can Mira Variables Tell us the Chemical Abundances in Stellar Systems?....Pages 229-237
Abundances in Open Star Clusters: What we have to Work with....Pages 239-247
Galactic Globular Cluster Relative Ages: Clues on the Milky Way Early Evolution....Pages 249-260
Infrared Observations of Globular Clusters....Pages 261-267
Absolute Magnitude of RR Lyrae in Globular Clusters from Pulsational Properties....Pages 269-274
Galactic Globular Clusters as Calibrators of Synthetic Line Indices....Pages 275-280
Old Open Clusters as Tracers of Galactic Evolution....Pages 281-287
Front Matter....Pages 289-290
Abundances of Globular Clusters in the Galactic Bulge....Pages 291-300
The Globular Clusters and Field Stars in the Galactic Bulge....Pages 301-308
The Initial Mass Function of the Galactic Bulge Down to ~ 0.15 M ⊙ ....Pages 309-315
Radial Variables as Tracers of Stellar Populations....Pages 317-322
Abundance Gradients Along the Galactic Disk....Pages 323-334
The Age of the Galactic Disk....Pages 335-346
Compact High—Velocity Clouds at High Resolution....Pages 347-359
The Present Rate of Supernovae....Pages 361-369
The Role of Classical Novae in the Galactic Nucleosynthesis....Pages 371-377
Faint Stars in the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: Implications for the Stellar IMF....Pages 379-385
Evolution of Heavy Elements in Omega Centauri: The Puzzle of S-Enrichment....Pages 387-400
Front Matter....Pages 401-402
Stellar Evolution with Rotation....Pages 403-416
Front Matter....Pages 401-402
The Explosive Yields of Massive Stars....Pages 417-427
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars....Pages 429-443
Yields from Type Ia Supernovae....Pages 445-459
The Evolution of Zero Metal Intermediate Mass Stars....Pages 461-466
The Effect of External Pollution on the Evolution of Low-Mass Metal-free Stars....Pages 467-472
Explosive Nucleosynthesis of Massive Stars The Effect of the Metallicity....Pages 473-479
Chemical Yields From Low-and Intermediate-Mass Stars....Pages 481-486
AGB Stars New Models:Lithium Production in the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds....Pages 487-493
Observational Constraints to the Evolution of Massive Stars....Pages 495-501
Front Matter....Pages 503-504
The Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way....Pages 505-515
Reconstructing the Star Formation History of the Galaxy....Pages 517-530
Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Halo....Pages 531-539
Stellar Yields and Chemical Evolution....Pages 541-546
The Influence of Nova Nucleosynthesis on the Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy....Pages 547-555
The Evolution of the Milky Way Disk....Pages 557-563
The Effects of a Variable IMF on the Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy....Pages 565-572
Metallicity Effect on Type Ia Supernovae and Galactic and Cosmic Chemical Evolution....Pages 573-578
On the Abundance Gradients in the Galactic Disc....Pages 579-585
Formation of Disk Galaxies: On the Angular Momentum Problem, the Tully-Fisher Relation and Magnetohydrodynamics....Pages 587-597
Has the IMF of EG’s Always been the Same?....Pages 599-610
Front Matter....Pages 611-611
Concluding Remarks....Pages 613-618
Concluding Address....Pages 619-620
Back Matter....Pages 621-624