Amanda Karakas One of the most important research fields in astrophysics is the study of the origin of the elements. ... Asymptotic Giant Blanch (AGB) Stars: For low and intermediate-mass stars (with initial masses between about 0.8 to 8 solar masses) the most important nucleosynthesis occurs when stars evolve off the main sequence to the giant branches. ... This indicates that these stars obtained their unusual abundances via mass transfer from a previous red giant star, that has long evolved away. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Late Stages of Stellar Evolution . Welcome to the home page of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution" We are a research group which operates within the Astrophysics Group of the Australia Telescope National Facility. ... To investigate the late stages of stellar evolution and in particular the role of stellar mass-loss in the evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars, proto-planetary nebulae and extremely massive stars. ...

Next: M.D. Smith, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: J.G. Doyle, Research Astronomer Contents . During the final stages in its life, a star is transformed in ways which remain poorly understood. ... Each transformation is a response to changes in chemical composition in the stellar interior as nuclear reactions convert one source of fuel into another. ... Consequently, the number of stars currently in these late stages of stellar evolution is comparatively small. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Exploring the Cosmic Dawn . ... Cosmic reionization corresponds to the epoch in which the first stars€а and black holes reionize the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) that€аpervades the Universe following recombination, within a few hundred€аmillion years of the Big Bang. The epoch of reionization, and the€аpreceding ?dark ages? prior to the formation of the first stars,€аrepresent the last unexplored phases of cosmic evolution to be tested€аand explored. ...

... Science Users Information > Science Activities > Science in Garching > Research Area: STELLAR STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION . ... Reset view all 3 per page 5 per page 10 per page Sort by Title A-Z Title Z-A Date asc Date desc Research Topics Planets and Star Formation Stellar Structure and Evolution Stellar Populations Cosmology and the Early Universe Scientific Positions Faculty Fellows Scientists Students . ... Planets and Star Formation Stellar Populations Stellar Structure and Evolution Faculty . ...

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Information . ... Historical highlights . Historical research . ... This process is thought to occur in circumstellar disks of gas and dust around young stars on rather short timescales : infrared surveys show that the number of low mass stars with disks drops dramatically for stars older than 10 Myr, suggesting that in order to form large solids before the disk disperses, the growth process has to take place within a few million years. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... In LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTROPHYSICS OF SPECIAL ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY OF RAS . ... History . ... Current problems of the group research interests: . study for cosmic microwave background, . study of radio galaxies (identification, evolution, statistical investigation of population), . investigation of the RATAN-600 antenna, . observations in the survey mode with RATAN-600 and their analysis, . creation of the software for data analysis. vo @ sao.ru ( Oleg Verkhodanov ) ...

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... Inhomogeneous planetary nebulae: Carbon and Oxygen abundances, Astron. ... Abstract . text in English . ... text in Russian . ... Chemica evolution of the system of galactic planetary nebulae , Astrophysics, 45 , 451-463 (2002) . ... Evolution of Elemental Abundances in Planetary Nebulae, Astronomy Letters, 32 , 557-565 ( 2006 ) . ... text in Russian (0.23Mb) . ... He, C, N, and O Abundances in an Ensemble of Galactic Planetary Nebulae, Astronomy Letters, 35 , 518-533 ( 2009 ) . ...

. Departement of Quantum Astrophysics . Head: Kurt V.G. , Prof. ultraviolet spectroscopy of planetary upper atmospheres and interplanetary/interstellar medium; . observations of gamma-bursts and optical identification of their sources; . long-base optical interferometry. Staff: .

... Dark Energy (Part of the Hubble Discoveries Series): http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/dark_energy/ (Flash-based multimedia tutorial on the discovery and meaning of dark energy; includes information on the origin and fate of universe) . ... Cosmology Visualizations from the NASA Universe Forum: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/einstein/resources_visual.htm#featcos (A series of computer visualizations of the evolution and structure of the universe, available in a number of formats.) ...

... Jobs By Email . ... As one of the elements of a major strategic investment in the Physics Department, which includes a 44M development of research and teaching facilities and an injection of new posts, the University invites applications for two Lectureships or Readerships in Astrophysics. ... Grade: Lecturer Grade B - Senior Lecturer Salary: Lecturer 30,013 39,160 Reader 40,335 46,758 . ... The University of Bristol . ... If you apply for this position, please say you saw it on jobs.ac.uk . ...

Main planetology and astrophysics scientific tasks of gamma-spectrometry GRS and detector HEND . ... The origin of Mars . The ratio of natural radioactive isotopes 19 K/ 92 U will allow to estimate the temperature of proto-planetary cloud in the point of Mars creation . ... Abundance of main elements at valleys and at plateaus will allow to determine their ages . ... Water as a factor of Mars global evolution, the presence of water and water ice under the surface in the present time . ...

... Laboratory "Structure" was created in 1992 from the temporary scientific group formed in 1988 in SAO RAS. In December 2003 it was transformed into group of Physics and Evolution of Galaxies , which enters into new Laboratory of Extragalactic ASTROPHYSICS and COSMOLOGY. ... Kniazev A.Y. senior researcher, associated foreign member . Kniazeva T.F. junior researcher, associated foreign member . ... Lipovetsky Valentin A. (1945-1996) former leader of the Laboratory . ...

... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S. Dust expelling from the Galaxy ( abstract from the journal ). Astronomy Reports , 1995, 39 , 578-586 [AZh, 72 , 650-659]. Wiebe D.S., Shematovich V.I., Shustov B.M. Chemical and dynamical evolution of protostellar clouds: initial stages of collapse ( abstract from the journal ). ... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S., Tutukov A.V. Evolution of disk galaxies and loss of heavy elements into the intracluster medium. ... ApJ (Letters), 1998, 503 , L71-L74 ( astro-ph/9806155 ). ...

Term mixture regarding solar chemical composition refers to relative abundances of heavy elements. Abundances of hydrogen and helium cannot be determined reliably from observations, therefore concentration of these elements are not taken from observational data. ... Table contains only elements which are abundant enough to be included into opacity and equation of state computations. ... First "low-Z abundances" to be published were AGS05. ... 5.5 . ... 6.22 AG89 : Anders E., Grevesse N. 1989. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... What is the heaviest element that astronomers can detect? ... The heaviest element that astronomers have found in space is the same as the heaviest element naturally occurring on Earth: uranium. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email...

Sergey B. Popov Research experience My research interests and activity are centered around two fields of astrophysics: star formation and evolution and physics of compact objects. My research work on the population synthesis of binary stars was done in the Department of Relativistic astrophysics under supervision of Prof. Lipunov. ... In the future I would like to work on the evolution of isolated and binary neutron stars, accreting isolated neutron stars and young neutron stars in SNRs. ...

Ballistic life-time . ... The orbit inclination to the equatorial plane (black line) and to the ecliptic plane (red line) are shown on the third panel. ... The launch orbital elements value and its evolution during flight is shown on the plot for the time interval (August 3, 1995 - October 16 2000). ... The critical parameter is perigee altitude shown on the first panel. ... This parameter determine the IB_Tail ballistic lifetime up to October 16, 2000. ... Dated 25 May, 2000 . ... INTERBALL mission ...