
The Milky Way
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Il est l'auteur de plusieurs manuels de physique à un niveau avancé et de deux livres dans la présente collection, ' Le monde quantique ' et ' Les relativités '. Il est aussi co-auteur, toujours dans cette collection, de ' Le temps: mesurable, réversible, insaisissable '.
Content
- Intro
- The Milky Way
- Preface
- Contents
- Physical and astronomical constants
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- 1.1 Shape and dimensions of the Milky Way
- 1.2 Rotation and spiral structure
- 1.3 The Milky Way at all wavelengths
- 1.4 The role of the HIPPARCOS satellite
- Chapter 2 - The solar neighborhood
- 2.1 The fundamental parameters of stars and the Hertzprung-Russell diagram
- 2.2 The local stellar disk
- 2.3 Kinematics and dynamics of the stars of the local disk
- 2.4 High-velocity stars
- 2.5 The interstellar matter near the Sun
- Chapter 3 - Structure and components of the Milky Way
- 3.1 Dimensions and rotation of the Galaxy
- 3.2 Stellar populations in the Galaxy
- 3.3 The interstellar medium in the Galaxy
- 3.4 Radiation fields, magnetic field, cosmic particles and radio radiation
- 3.5 The spiral structure of the Galaxy
- 3.6 Dark matter in the Galaxy
- Chapter 4 - The galactic center
- 4.1 Bar and bulge
- 4.2 The interstellar matter at the galactic center
- 4.3 The black hole
- 4.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 5 - Galactic dynamics
- 5.1 Dynamics of the barred spiral structure
- 5.2 Cycle of the bar evolution, migrations, multiple waves
- Chapter 6 - The chemical evolution of the Galaxy
- 6.1 The formation of the Galaxy
- 6.2 The production of elements in stars
- 6.3 Modeling the chemical evolution
- 6.4 The chemical evolution of the halo and the bulge
- 6.5 The chemical evolution of disks
- Chapter 7 - Formation and evolutionof the Galaxy
- 7.1 The thin and thick disks
- 7.2 The formation of the bulge
- 7.3 The formation of the halo : cosmological or not?
- Chapter 8 - The Galaxy among its companions
- 8.1 A spiral among the spirals - the Hubble classification of the Galaxy
- 8.2 The satellites : the Magellanic Clouds and dwarf elliptical galaxies
- 8.3 Capture of the Sagittarius dwarf, and many others: the tidal streams
- 8.4 Galactic wind, high velocity clouds, cosmic accretion
- APPENDIX: List of the principal Milky Way satellites, sorted by increasing distance
- Chapter 9 - The future
- Appendix 1 - Stellar parameters
- Appendix 2 - A few basic notions concerning the observations of the interstellar medium
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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