Welcome to the Starburst and Galaxy Evolution website.

... 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. ...

The Evolution of Galaxies to a Look-back Time of 4 Gyr -- RIG ====================================================== HI can be currently detected in emission from extragalactic objects out to a z~1/3, with integration times of order of 10 ksec at AO. ... The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is delivering optical photometry and spectroscopy for millions of galaxies. ... An even more ambitious effort, aimed at characterizing the evolution of galaxies back to 4 Gyr, will likely follow a few years hence. ...

... 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. ...

... Evolution of the coalescence rate of double neutron stars (NS) and neutron star - black hole (BH) binaries are computed for model galaxies with different star formation rates. Assuming gamma-ray bursts (GRB) to originate from NS+NS or NS+BH merging in distant galaxies, theoretical - distributions for gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are calculated for the first time taking the computed merging rates into account. ... Effect of sources evolution on - distribution and -test. ...

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. ...

Evolution of the double neutron star merging rate and the cosmological origin of Gamma-ray burst sources " , Astroph.J., 1995, v.454, 593-596 (Lipunov, V.M. Postnov, K.A. and Prokhorov M.E.) . Evolution of SupernovaЃExplosion Rates in theЃ Universe (Jorgensen H., Lipunov.M., Panchenko I.E., Postnov K.A., Prokhorov M.E.) ApJ, 1997, v.486,p.110 . ... Formation of a Gravitationally Bound Object after Binary Neutron Star Merging and GRB phenomena " (G.V.Lipunova, V.M.Lipunov). ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

... Mass loss Recipes | ... Mass Loss is the most important "driver" of stellar evolution in massive stars. ... The final goal is to predict mass loss over the entire evolution of a massive star at all cosmological epochs. ... Very Massive Stars are objects up to 300 times the mass of the Sun. ... Mass-loss rates increase dramatically when objects cross a critical Eddington Gamma factor (Vink et al. ... I have recently edited a book on "Very Massive Stars" including a mass-loss "chapter" . ...

... 2007 March 5 . Illusion and Evolution in Galaxy Cluster Abell 2667 . ... Explanation: What's happening to the galaxies of cluster Abell 2667? ... To start, most of the yellowish objects in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope are galactic members of a massive cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2667 . ... Light from this galaxy is gravitationally lensed by Abell 2667, appearing much like a distant person would appear through a wine glass. ... About APOD | ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Studying the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxy Clusters with (Sub-)mm Observations . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... Studies of the Planck data set with optical and sub-mm follow-up observations give new insights about the early assembly of the first clusters, and the later evolution of their gas content as well as of their population of star-forming galaxies. ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . Cavendish Astrophysics . ... Cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies . The origin and evolution of radio sources . ... Radio sources are among the most powerful of the family of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). ... The overall properties of radio sources are well predicted by analytical models of self-modifying evolution of the radio source which we have developed, and many of the more unusual structures observed can be reproduced using computational models. ...

... 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.) ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . ... Radiation-driven winds from stars and Active Galactic Nucle" . ... It is now clearly understood that the problem of mass loss is crucially important both from the point of view of it’s influence on the evolution of stars and for the explanation of physical processes and observational data in active galactic nuclei (AGN). ... Absorption of the radiation by continuum opacity is responsible for such an evolutionary significant mass loss in cold massive stars. ...

... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

TALKS ST EL L E Raffaele Gratton INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova Stellar abundances and the chemical evolution of stellar systems: the Italian contribution The chemical composition of stellar syst the last few years, exciting results have and efficient spectrographs. ... Once the observations of all clusters will be completed for at least one season, we plan to better describe and model the evolution of the stellar angular momentum from the PMS to the TAMS. ...

... Clustering of AGN and QSOs at z=1 . Using galaxies from the DEEP2 Redshift Survey and AGN from the AEGIS/Chandra survey and QSOs from SDSS, I present the cross-correlation function of AGN/QSOs and 'normal' galaxies at z=1. Using the known clustering of DEEP2 galaxies, this leads to an estimate of the bias and typical host dark matter halo mass of AGN/QSOs as a function of X-ray luminosity, which constrains AGN formation models. oral . ... Tuesday: AGN correlation functions, LSS, environments . ...

... Illusion and Evolution in Galaxy Cluster Abell 2667 . ... Explanation: What's happening to the galaxies of cluster Abell 2667? ... To start, most of the yellowish objects in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope are galactic members of a massive cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2667 . ... Light from this galaxy is gravitationally lensed by Abell 2667, appearing much like a distant person would appear through a wine glass. ... The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies . ... Galaxies Away . ...

... We consider the astrophysical evolution of the Galaxy over large time scales, from early stages (an age of ~10 8 yrs) to the end of traditional stellar evolution (~10 11 yrs). ... In the model considered, the basic stages of Galactic evolution are as follows. ... Essentially all other basic parameters of the Galaxy vary little. ... The final "stellar epoch" in the life of the Galaxy is completed ~10 13 yrs after its formation, when the evolution of the least massive stars comes to an end. ...