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Esteban, César; García López, Ramón; Herrero, Artemio; Sánchez, Francisco
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Cosmochemistry. The melting pot of the elements. XIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, November 19-30, 2001, edited by C. Esteban, R. J. Garcí López, A. Herrero, F. Sánchez. Cambridge contemporary astrophysics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-82768-X, 2004, XIII + 298 pp.
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Description
The chemical composition of the Universe has evolved over billions of
years. A host of astrophysical processes and observations must be
understood in order to explain why celestial objects have the chemical
compositions observed. This book contains the lectures delivered at the
XIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, which was dedicated
to reviewing current knowledge about the origin and evolution of the
chemical elements in the Universe. Written by seven prestigious
astrophysics researchers, it covers cosmological and stellar
nucleosynthesis, abundance determinations in stars and ionised nebulae,
chemical composition of nearby and distant galaxies, and models of
chemical evolution of galaxies and intracluster medium. This is a timely
review of developments in cosmochemistry over the last decade.