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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.HOW TO MODEL GALACTIC CHEMICAL
EVOLUTION
- 1.1.The initial conditions
- 1.2.Birthrate function
- 1.3.Stellar yields
- 1.4.Gas flows
- 2.BASIC EQUATIONS FOR CHEMICAL
EVOLUTION
- 2.1.Yields per Stellar
Generation
- 2.2.Analytical models
- 2.3.Detailed numerical models
- 3.THE MILKY WAY
- 3.1.The formation of the Milky
Way
- 3.2.The two-infall model
- 3.3.Detailed recipes for the
two-infall model
- 3.4.The chemical enrichment
history of the solar vicinity
- 3.5.The Galactic disk
- 3.6.The Galactic bulge
- 4.WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE
MILKY WAY
- 5.THE TIME-DELAY MODEL AND THE
HUBBLE SEQUENCE
- 5.1.Star formation and Hubble
sequence
- 6.DWARF SPHEROIDALS OF THE LOCAL
GROUP
- 6.1.How do dSphs form?
- 7.WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED ABOUT dSphs?
- 8.OTHER SPIRALS
- 8.1.CHEMICAL MODELS FOR
EXTERNAL SPIRALS
- 9.COSMIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
- REFERENCES