New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics: The Link Between Stars and Cosmology

Proceedings of the International Conference held in Puerto Vallarta, México, 26-30 March 2001

Stellar astrophysics still provides the basic framework for deciphering the imprints left over by the evolving universe on all scales. Advances or shortcomings in the former field have direct consequences in our ability to understand the global properties of the latter.

This volume contains the most recent updates on a variety of topics that, though independent by themselves, are inevitably connected on a cosmological scale. These include comprehensive articles by leaders in fields extending from stellar atmospheres through properties of the stellar component in the Milky Way up to the stellar environment in high redshift galaxies.

The wide coverage of astrophysical themes makes this volume very valuable for researchers and Ph.D. students in astrophysics.

Inhalt
A Few Things We Do Not Know About Stars and Model Atmospheres.- Cool Stellar Atmospheres.- A Critical Appraisal of ATLAS9 and NextGen5 Model Atmospheres.- A Precise New Method to Correcting Temperature in Stellar Atmospheres.- New Phenomena Discovered in the Atmospheres of Normal Late-B Type Stars.- Heating the Quiet Corona by Explosive Events in UV: Results from SUMER on board SoHO.- A Grid of Synthetic Stellar UV Fluxes.- A Grid of LTE Zero-Metallicity Stellar Fluxes.- The Evolutionary Properties of Zero-Metal Stars in the Mass Range Between 4 and 100 M?.- The Peculiar Evolution of Low-Mass Pop III Stars.- Zero-Metal Stellar Yields, the IMF for Population III and Nucleosynthetic Constraints.- The Stellar IMF in Very Metal-Deficient Gas.- Cosmological Origin of the Lowest Metallicity Halo Stars.- Cosmological Chemistry and the Formation of the First Objects.- The Primordial Li: New Observations.- Star Formation History in the Solar Neighborhood: the Link Between Stars and Cosmology.- Carbon and Oxygen Galactic Abundance Gradients Predicted by Different Stellar Yields.- The Upper End of the Galactic Metallicity Scale.- Spectral Indices of Stars at Super-solar Regime.- The Proper Motion of the Globular Cluster NGC 6553 and of Bulge Stars with HST.- Update on Globular Cluster Ages.- A Survey of Open Clusters at San Pedro Mártir.- About the IMF in Young Stellar Clusters.- Reconstructing Star Formation Episodes in the Local Group.- Deep Studies of the Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts of M31.- Comments on Binary Star Evolution and the Small Magellanic Cloud System HD 5980.- Stellar Metallicities Beyond the Local Group with VLT/FORS.- An Estimate of H0 using Cepheid Period Luminosity Relations at Maximum Light.- H? Luminosity Function of H II Regions:Preliminary Calibration of a Powerful Standard Candle.- On the Behavior of the Ionized Gas in NGC 4449.- NGC 5044-N50: a Link Between Blue Compact Galaxies and Dwarf Ellipticals.- Star Formation in Ring Galaxies.- Recent Star Formation in Galaxies.- Extinction and Star Formation Histories of Nearby Starburst Galaxies.- Dust and Nebular Emission in Star Forming Galaxies.- Modeling the Radio to X-ray SED of Galaxies.- Population Synthesis in the Blue and the Spectroscopic Age of 47 Tucanae.- On the Properties of Population III Stars and Galaxies.- Population Synthesis and the Diagnostics of High-Redshift Galaxies.- Explosive Yields of Metal Free SNII and the Abundances in Extremely Metal Poor Stars.- The First Detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha System.- Type Ib-Ic Supernovae: Time Clocks of Seyfert Galaxies?.- On the Evolution of Cosmological Type I Supernovae and the Gravitational Constant.- Lifting the Veil: ?-Ray Bursts as Beacons for Cosmic Star Formation.- Stars and Gas in High Redshift Galaxies.- Abundances in Damped Ly? Systems.- High Redshift Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium.- Dust Penetrated Morphology in the High Redshift Universe.- The Dusty Star Formation History of High-z Galaxies, Modeling Tools and Future Prospects.- On the Calibration of Star Formation Rates.- Excursions into the Evolution of Early-type Galaxies.- Optical Identification of X-ray Sources in a High X-ray Flux Sensitivity Area from the RASS.- Intermediate Resolution H? Spectroscopy and Photometric Monitoring of 3C 390.3 ABCD.- From protostars to galaxies with GTM/LMT.- Searching for an Early Epoch of Star Formation with mm/sub-mm Blank Field Surveys.- The Creation and Evolution of Galaxies in the Universe: Millimeter Cosmology @ INAOE.- 21-cm Emission from the DampedLyman-? Absorber SBS 1543+593 ABCD.- Cosmological Parameters and the Baryon Density from CMB and Galaxy Fluctuations.- List of Participants.