HOW TO MODEL GALACTIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
- The initial conditions
Birthrate function
Stellar yields
Gas flows
BASIC EQUATIONS FOR CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
- Yields per Stellar Generation
Analytical models
Detailed numerical models
THE MILKY WAY
- The formation of the Milky Way
The two-infall model
Detailed recipes for the two-infall model
The chemical enrichment history of the solar
vicinity
The Galactic disk
The Galactic bulge
WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE MILKY WAY
THE TIME-DELAY MODEL AND THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE
- Star formation and Hubble sequence
DWARF SPHEROIDALS OF THE LOCAL GROUP
- How do dSphs form?
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED ABOUT dSphs?
OTHER SPIRALS
- CHEMICAL MODELS FOR EXTERNAL SPIRALS
COSMIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
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