Francesca Matteucci: 2 books

The Origin of the Galaxy and Local Group

Saas-Fee Advanced Course 37 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

by Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Kenneth Freeman, Francesca Matteucci
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

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....

Chemical Evolution of Galaxies

by Francesca Matteucci
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012

The term “chemical evolution of galaxies” refers to the evolution of abundances of chemical species in galaxies, which is due to nuclear processes occurring in stars and to gas flows into and out of galaxies. This book deals with the chemical evolution of galaxies of all morphological types...