Stellar yields and Galactic chemical evolution

dc.contributor.author	Goswami, A
dc.date.accessioned	2012-07-12T14:36:15Z
dc.date.available	2012-07-12T14:36:15Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.identifier.citation	ASI Conference Series, Vol. 3, pp. 45-48	en
dc.identifier.isbn	978-81-922926-1-8
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/5794
dc.description	Open Access	en
dc.description.abstract	The chemical composition of stars belonging to the halo and the disk of our Galaxy as well as a few nearby galaxies are the primary sources of our understanding of the Galactic Chemical Evolution (GCE). The abundance trends implied by the abundance ratios of the chemical elements as a function of time and metallicity trace the chemical history of our Galaxy which could be understood in the framework of a Galactic Chemical Evolution Model (GCEM). Among the basic ingredients of a GCEM `stellar yields' play an important role as they implicitly contain a physical scenario of stellar nucleosynthesis and evolution. Improved input along with a realistic model of chemical evolution are expected to result better simulation of the observed abundances.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Astronomical Society of India	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ASInC...3...45G	en
dc.rights	© Astronomical Society of India	en
dc.subject	Stars: stellar yields	en
dc.subject	Stars: abundances	en
dc.subject	Stars: chemical evolution	en
dc.title	Stellar yields and Galactic chemical evolution	en
dc.type	Book chapter	en