02149nam a22003138a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141040002400170050002700194082001700221245006500238264005200303300005900355336002600414337002600440338003600466490004900502500007300551520102400624700005501648776003501703830005001738856004701788CR9781139152303UkCbUP20170413094210.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110915s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139152303 (ebook)  z9781107023802 (hardback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aQB858.8.L63 bC36 200800a523.1/1222300aLocal Group Cosmology /cEdited by David Martínez-Delgado. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (246 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aCanary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aOne of the most fascinating unresolved problems of modern astrophysics is how the galaxies we observe today were formed. The Lambda-Cold Dark Matter paradigm predicts that large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way formed through accretion and tidal disruption of satellite galaxies. The galaxies of the Local Group provide the best laboratory in which to investigate these galaxy formation processes because they can be studied with sufficiently high resolution to exhume fossils of galactic evolution embedded in the spatial distribution, kinematics, and chemical abundances of their oldest stars. Based on the twentieth Winter School of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics, this volume provides a firm grounding for graduate students and early career researchers working on Local Group cosmology. It presents modules from eight eminent and experienced scientists at the forefront of Local Group research, and includes overviews of observational techniques, diagnostic tools, and various theoretical models.1 aMartínez-Delgado, David,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z9781107023802 0aCanary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139152303