Out into space -- Grand time machines -- Palomar : the perfect machine -- The Anglo-Australian revolution -- La Palma : la isla bonita -- A golden era : synergies with Hubble Space Telescope -- The mighty Keck telescopes : lifting the curtain -- Entering the reionisation era -- …
"Approximately 300,000 years after the Big Bang, all matter consisted of three chemical elements: hydrogen, helium, and a bit of lithium. This matter spread out as the universe expanded and cooled down, and from the far-flung gas clusters the first stars ignited. Eventually, due…
"Approximately 300,000 years after the Big Bang, all matter consisted of three chemical elements: hydrogen, helium, and a bit of lithium. This matter spread out as the universe expanded and cooled down, and from the far-flung gas clusters the first stars ignited. Eventually, due…
The publication of the morphology - density relation by Alan Dressler in 1980 brought into the limelight the role played by environment in the formation and evolution of galaxies. The symposium Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later, was organised with the pur…
Galactic dynamics
by Binney, James, Tremaine, Scott
fromPrinceton series in astrophysics
L'auteure étudie l'évolution de l'Univers, son expansion, via la naissance et l'évolution des galaxies. Plusieurs milliards de galaxies témoignent de l'expansion de l'Univers. Des paradoxes apparaissent car les observations divergent parfois des modèles simulés. Plusieurs scénar…
"Bulges lie at the center of spiral galaxies. Until recently, they were thought to host uniquely old stellar populations and thus provide a key for understanding galaxy formation. Recent observations from the ground and space have drastically changed our view on the nature of bu…
"Understanding how the form and structure of galaxies have evolved has profound implications for our knowledge of how the Universe itself has been shaped over the past 12 billion years or so. This book discusses the evolution of the galaxies in detail and, whilst acknowledging t…