Local Group cosmology / [edited by] David Martínez-Delgado, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg.

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(20th : Canary Islands Winter School on Astrophysics (20th : 2008 : Tenerife, Canary Islands)

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Martínez Delgado, D. (David) [editor.]

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9781107416567
1107416566
9781139152303
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Local Group cosmologyDDC classification:

523.1/12 23

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QB858.8.L63 C36 2008eb

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Contents:

The formation of the Milky Way in the CDM paradigm / K.C. Freeman -- Dark matter content and tidal effects in Local Group dwarf galaxies / Steven R. Majewski -- Notes on the missing satellites problem / James Bullock -- The Milky Way satellite galaxies -- Stellar tidal streams / R. Ibata -- Tutorial : the analysis of colour-magnitude diagrams / D. Valls-Gabaud -- Tutorial : modelling tidal streams using n-body simulations / J. Peñarrubia.

Summary: "One of the most fascinating unresolved problems of modern astrophysics is how the galaxies we observe today were formed. The Lambda-Cold Dark Matter paradigm predicts that large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way formed through accretion and tidal disruption of satellite galaxies, a notion previously postulated on empirical grounds from the character of stellar populations found in our Galaxy. The Local Group galaxies are the best laboratory in which to investigate these galaxy formation processes because they can be studied with sufficiently high resolution to exhume fossils of galactic evolution embedded in the spatial distribution, kinematics, and chemical abundances of their oldest stars"--Provided by publisher

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Lectures presented at the XX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, held in Tenerife, Spain, November 17-18, 2008.

"One of the most fascinating unresolved problems of modern astrophysics is how the galaxies we observe today were formed. The Lambda-Cold Dark Matter paradigm predicts that large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way formed through accretion and tidal disruption of satellite galaxies, a notion previously postulated on empirical grounds from the character of stellar populations found in our Galaxy. The Local Group galaxies are the best laboratory in which to investigate these galaxy formation processes because they can be studied with sufficiently high resolution to exhume fossils of galactic evolution embedded in the spatial distribution, kinematics, and chemical abundances of their oldest stars"--Provided by publisher