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Stellar chemical evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

John E. Norris
John E. Norris*
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories, The Australian National University, Private Bag, Woden P.O., ACT 2611, Australia email: jen@mso.anu.edu.au

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One of the major achievements of astrophysics has been the demonstration that most of the chemical elements have been synthesized in stars: nucleosynthesis calculations of homogeneous and inhomogeneous big bang cosmologies show that, in comparison with the most metal-poor stars currently known, essentially no elements heavier than B existed at the era of decoupling (see e.g. Wagoner, Fowler, & Hoyle 1967; Kajino, Mathews, & Fuller 1990). Following the pioneering work on stellar nucleosynthesis by Hoyle (1946), the basic precepts and the role of stars was set down in the classic papers of Burbidge et al. (1957) and Cameron (1957), and the ensuing decades have produced a vast body of theoretical and observational effort to more fully understand the details of the process.

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Stellar Chemical Evolution
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 189: Fundamental Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Observation and Theory , 1997 , pp. 407 - 416
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Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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