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How galaxies form: Mass assembly from chemical abundances in the era of large surveys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2010

Rosemary F.G. Wyse
Rosemary F.G. Wyse*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The chemical abundances in the atmosphere of a star provide unique information about the gas from which that star formed, and, modulo processes that are not important for the vast majority of stars, such as mass transfer in close binary systems, are conserved through a star's life. Correlations between chemistry and kinematics have been used for decades to trace dynamical evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy. I discuss how it should be possible to refine and extend such analyses, provided planned large-scale deep imaging surveys have matched spectroscopic surveys.

Keywords

stars: abundancesstars: kinematicsGalaxy: abundancesGalaxy: evolutionGalaxy: formationGalaxy: stellar content(galaxies:) Local Groupcosmology: dark matter
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S265: Chemical Abundances in the Universe: Connecting First Stars to Planets , August 2009 , pp. 461 - 469
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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