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This volume contains the updated and expanded lecture notes of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course organised by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed. Joss Bland-Hawthorn & Ken Freeman lectured on Near Field Cosmology - The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group. Francesca Matteucci's chapter is on Chemical evolution of the Milky Way and its Satellites. As designed by the SSAA, books in this series - and this one too - are targeted at graduate and PhD students and young researchers in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Lecturers and researchers entering the field will also benefit from the book.
List of contents
Near Field Cosmology - The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group.- Chemical evolution of the Milky Way and its Satellites.
About the author
Ben Moore, geboren 1966, ist seit 2002 Professor für Astrophysik an der Universität Zürich. Unter seinem Künstlernamen "Professor Moore" spielt er Gitarre in der Elektro-Rockband MILK67 und arbeitet momentan an einem Soloalbum. Für die Zürcher Street Parade 2010 entwickelte er zusammen mit seinen Studenten ein Urknall-Lovemobile.§Der Brite hat über 200 wissenschaftlichen Abhandlungen zu Themen wie der Ursprung der Planten und Galaxien, Dunkle Materie und Dunkle Energie verfasst. Moores Forschungsgruppe simuliert das Universum mit speziell dafür hergestellten Supercomputern.
Summary
This volume contains the updated and expanded lecture notes of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course organised by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed. Joss Bland-Hawthorn & Ken Freeman lectured on Near Field Cosmology - The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group. Francesca Matteucci’s chapter is on Chemical evolution of the Milky Way and its Satellites. As designed by the SSAA, books in this series – and this one too – are targeted at graduate and PhD students and young researchers in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Lecturers and researchers entering the field will also benefit from the book.
