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Chapter Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
- 1.1. General Introduction
- 1.2. Some basic facts of nuclear
physics
- 1.3. The local abundance distribution
- 1.4. Brief outline of stellar evolution
- 2. THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS
- 2.1. General properties of nuclei
- 2.2. Nuclear reaction physics
- 2.3. Non-resonant reactions
- 2.4. Sketch of statistical mechanics
- 2.5. Thermonuclear reaction rates
- 2.6. Resonant reactions
- 2.7. Neutron capture reactions
- 2.8. Inverse reactions
- 2.9. -decay and fission
- 2.10. Weak interactions
- Notes
- Problems
- 3. COSMIC ABUNDANCES OF ELEMENTS AND ISOTOPES
- 3.1. Introduction: data sources
- 3.2. Analysis of absorption lines
- 3.3. Photometric methods
- 3.4. Emission lines from nebulae
- 3.5. Abundances: main results
- Notes
- Problems
- 4. COSMOLOGICAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS AND ABUNDANCES
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Background cosmology
- 4.3. Thermal history of the universe
- 4.4. Neutron:proton ratio
- 4.5. Nuclear reactions
- 4.6. Deuterium and 3He
- 4.7. Helium
- 4.8. Lithium 7
- 4.9. Non-``standard'' BBNS models
- 4.10. Conclusions
- Notes
- Problems
- 5. OUTLINE OF STELLAR STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Time-scales and basic equations of stellar structure
- 5.3. Homology transformation
- 5.4. Degeneracy, white dwarfs and neutron stars
- 5.5. Hayashi effect
- 5.6. Hydrogen-burning
- 5.7. Evolution from the main sequence; the
Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit
- 5.8. Helium-burning
- 5.9. Further burning stages: evolution of massive stars
- 5.10. Evolution of intermediate and low-mass stars
- 5.11. Interacting binary stars
- Notes
- Problems
- 6. NEUTRON CAPTURE PROCESSES
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. The s-process
- 6.3. The r-process
- Notes
- Problems
- 7. GALACTIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION: BASIC CONCEPTS
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. The overall picture
- 7.3. Ingredients of GCE models
- 7.4. The GCE equations
- Notes
- Problems
- 8. SOME SPECIFIC GCE MODELS AND RELATED
- 8.1. The ``Simple'' (1-zone) model
- 8.2. The Simple model with instantaneous recycling
- 8.3. Some consequences of the instantaneous Simple model
- 8.4. Suggested answers to the G-dwarf problem
- 8.5. Inflow models
- 8.6. Analytical models for the Galactic halo and disk
- Notes
- Problems
- 9. ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIGHT ELEMENTS
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Sketch of cosmic-ray physics
- 9.3. Light element production
- 9.4. Galactic chemical evolution of light elements
- Notes
- Problems
- 10. RADIOACTIVE COSMOCHRONOLOGY
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Age-dating of rocks
- 10.3. Galactic cosmochronology
- 10.4. Short-lived radioactivities
- Notes
- Problems
- 11. CHEMICAL EVOLUTION IN OTHER SORTS OF GALAXIES
- 11.1. Dwarf galaxies
- 11.2. Chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies
- Problem
- 12. COSMIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION AND DIFFUSE BACKGROUND
RADIATION
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Luminosity evolution and the diffuse background
- 12.3. Luminosity evolution and nuclear fuel consumption
- 12.4. Abundance of processed material in the universe
- 12.5. Starbursts and `metal' production
- 12.6. Cosmic chemical evolution and high red-shift
absorption-line systems
- Notes
- Problems
- Appendix 1 Some historical
landmarks
- Appendix 2 Some physical and
astronomical constants
- Appendix 3 Time-dependent
perturbation theory and transition probabilities
- Appendix 4 Polytropic stellar
models
- Appendix 5 Dissipation and
abundance gradients
- Appendix 6 Hints for problems
- References
- Index