Astrophysical ages and time scales : proceedings of a conference held in Hilo, Hawai'i, USA, 5-9 February 2001 / edited by Ted von Hippel, Chris Simpson, and Nadine Manset.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Von Hippel, Ted.

Simpson, Chris, 1971-

Manset, Nadine.

Series:

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 245.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 245

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmochronology--Congresses.

Cosmochronology.

Cosmology--Congresses.

Cosmology.

Stars--Age--Congresses.

Stars.

Stars--Age.

Galaxies--Formation--Congresses.

Galaxies.

Galaxies--Formation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxi, 639 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2001]

Contents:

Session 1. The Nature of Time

Time Since the Beginning / Alan H. Guth 3

Time and Modern Physics / W. G. Unruh 18

Implications of Spacetime Structure for Transience / Steven F. Savitt 24

Session 2. Precision Timing in Astronomy

Lessons Learned From Solar Oscillations / D. O. Gough 31

Precision Pulsar Timing / V. M. Kaspi 44

Dwarf Nova and Accretion Disks / Yoji Osaki 57

The Most Stable Optical Clocks Known / Anjum Mukadam, S. O. Kepler, D. E. Winget 65

Time Scale Invariant High

Low Transitions in Neutron Star/Black Hole Systems / H. Inoue 74

On the Relationship Between Dynamical Time and Atomic Time / Y. B. Kolesnik 83

Session 3. Planetary and Debris Disk Systems

Time Scale of Disk and Planet Formation / Frank H. Shu 89

The Epoch of Planet Formation / Douglas Lin 90

Solar System Formation Time Scales From Oligarchic Growth / Edward W. Thommes, Martin J. Duncan, Harold F. Levison 91

Lunar Formation From a Circumterrestrial Disk / E. Kokubo, S. Ida 101

Radioactivity and Solar System Formation Time Scales / Typhoon Lee 110

On the Accretion of Distant Planets / William R. Ward, Craig B. Agnor, Hidekazu Tanaka 111

Dust to Dust: Evidence for Planet Formation? / Glenn Schneider, Dean C. Hines, Murray D. Silverstone, Alycia J. Weinberger, Eric E. Becklin, Bradford A. Smith 121

Recent Solar Heavy Element Abundance Determinations and Implications for the History of the Solar System / E. Biemont 130

Ages and Abundances Among [beta] Pictoris Stars / Michael L. Edwards, Robert E. Stencel 133

Outer Solar System Survey / T. Fuse, D. Kinoshita, N. Yamamoto, J. Watanabe 135

The Formation of the Planetary Sequence in a Rotating, Self-Gravitating Disk of Randomly Colliding Planetesimals / E. Griv, M. Gedalin, D. Eichler, E. Liverts 138

Star Formation Studies With the Sloan Digital Sky Survey / P. M. McGehee 141

Observing the Planet Formation Time Scale by Ground-Based Direct Imaging of Planetary Companions to Young Nearby Stars: Gemini/Hokupaa Image of TWA-5 / Ralph Neuhauser, Dan Potter, Wolfgang Brandner 144

Session 4. The Galaxy and the Local Group

Galaxy Formation One Star at a Time: New Information From the Kinematics of Field Stars in the Galaxy / Timothy C. Beers, Masashi Chiba 149

Globular Cluster Age Dating / Brian Chaboyer 162

White Dwarf Stars as Cosmochronometers / G. Fontaine 173

Relative Ages of Galactic Globular Clusters: Clues to the Milky Way Formation Time Scale / A. Aparicio, A. Rosenberg, I. Saviane, G. Piotto, M. Zoccali 182

White Dwarfs in Open Clusters: New Tests of Stellar Evolution and the Age of the Galaxy / Ted von Hippel 190

Stellar Seismology, Stellar Ages, and the Cosmological Constant / G. R. Isaak, K. G. Isaak 199

The Dark Side of the Milky Way / Jan Bernkopf, Alex Fiedler, Klaus Fuhrmann 207

The Age of the Galactic Bulge / R. Michael Rich 216

Nucleosynthesis Clocks and the Age of the Galaxy / James W. Truran, Scott Burles, John J. Cowan, Christopher Sneden 226

Neutron-Capture Element Abundances and Cosmochronometry / Christopher Sneden, John J. Cowan, Timothy C. Beers, James W. Truran, James E. Lawler, George Fuller 235

First Measurement of the Uranium/Thorium Ratio in a Very Old Star: Implications for the Age of the Galaxy / R. Cayrel, M. Spite, F. Spite, V. Hill, F. Primas, P. Francois, T. C. Beers, B. Plez, B. Barbuy, J. Andersen, B. Nordstrom, P. Molaro, P. Bonifacio 244

Hope and Inquietudes in Nucleocosmochronology / M. Arnould, S. Goriely 252

The Oldest Stars: Diffusion and the Spite Plateau / A. Weiss, M. Salaris 262

How Good Are New Ages for Old Stars? / Bengt Gustafsson, Michelle Mizuno-Wiedner 271

The Dynamical Relaxation Time Scale of the Milky Way / E. Griv, M. Gedalin, D. Eichler, C. Yuan 280

Dating and Reconstructing Star Formation Episodes in the Local Group / David Valls-Gabaud, Xavier Hernandez, Gerard Gilmore 289

New Searches for R-Process Enhanced Stars / N. Christlieb, T. C. Beers, V. Hill, F. Primas, J. Rhee, S. G. Ryan, M. Bessell, J. E. Norris, C. Sneden, B. Edvardsson, B. Gustafsson, T. Karlsson, M. Mizuno-Wiedner 298

Determination of Accurate Stellar Ages Using Detached Eclipsing Binaries / A. Gimenez, I. Ribas, E. F. Guinan 301

Eddington: A European Space Mission That Will Measure the Age of the Stars / A. Gimenez, F. Favata 304

The Light Elements in TO and SGB Stars of Two Globular Clusters: Implications for Photometric Age Determinations / R. G. Gratton, P. Bonifacio, A. Bragaglia, E. Carretta, V. Castellani, M. Centurion, A. Chieffi, R. Claudi, G. Clementini, F. D' Antona|cS. Desidera, P. Francois, F. Grundahl, S. Lucatello, P. Molaro, L. Pasquini, C. Sneden, F. Spite, O. Straniero 307

Cosmochronometry and New Constraints on R-Process Nucleosynthesis / M. Hannawald, B. Pfeiffer, K.-L. Kratz 310

Luminosity Function and Age of White Dwarfs in the Disk / Hugh C. Harris, Conard C. Dahn, S. K. Leggett, James Liebert 313

R-Process Pattern in the Very-Metal-Poor Halo Star CS 31082-001 / Vanessa Hill, Bertrand Plez, Roger Cayrel, Timothy C. Beers 316

Multi-Color Observations of Evolved Stars in [omega] Centauri / Joanne Hughes, George Wallerstein, Floor van Leeuwen 319

Age Gradients in the Sculptor and Carina Dwarf Spheroidals / Denise Hurley-Keller, Mario Mateo 322

Planetary Nebulae in the Outer Spheroid of M 31 / Denise Hurley-Keller, Heather Morrison, Paul Harding, George Jacoby 325

What Are White Dwarfs Telling Us About the Galactic Disk and Halo? / J. Isern, E. Garcia-Berro, M. Salaris 328

Nucleosynthesis of Heavy Elements in the First Generation Stars / Nobuyuki Iwamoto, Toshitaka Kajino, Wako Aoki 331

Addressing Ambiguities in the Evolutionary Status of Solar-Mass Stars / Tuba Koktay 334

New Gravities for Old Stars / A. J. Korn, T. Gehren 337

Did the Inner Halo Globular Clusters Form Earlier Than Those in the Outer Halo? / Jae-Woo Lee, Bruce W. Carney, Laura K. Fullton, Peter B. Stetson 340

Horizontal Branch Morphology as an Age Indicator / Young-Wook Lee, Suk-Jin Yoon, Soo-Chang Rey, Brian Chaboyer 343

Ages of Cool White Dwarfs From Photometric and Spectroscopic Analyses / S. K. Leggett, P. Bergeron, Maria Teresa Ruiz 346

Revised Ages for the Alpha Persei and Pleiades Clusters / Eduardo L. Martin, Scott Dahm, Yakiv Pavlenko 349

Tidal Streams in the Galactic Halo: Evidence for the Sagittarius Northern Stream or Traces of a New Nearby Dwarf Galaxy / D. Martinez-Delgado, A. Aparicio, R. Carrera, M. A. Gomez-Flechoso 352

Dwarf Spheroidals With Tidal Tails and Structure Formation / Lucio Mayer 355

MACHO Project Analysis of the Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events With Clump Giants as Sources / P. Popowski, T. Vandehei, K. Griest, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, T. S. Axelrod, A. C. Becker, D. P. Bennett, K. H. Cook, A. J. Drake, K. C. Freeman, M. Geha, M. J. Lehner, S. L. Marshall, D. Minniti, C. A. Nelson, B. A. Peterson, P. J. Quinn, C. W. Stubbs, W. Sutherland, D. Welch 358

Is the Short Distance Scale a Result of a Problem With the LMC Photometric Zero Point? / Piotr Popowski 361

Chromospherically Young, Kinematically Old Stars / Helio J. Rocha-Pinto, Walter J. Maciel, Bruno V. Castilho 364

Atomic Diffusion in Stellar Interiors and Field Halo Subdwarfs Ages / M. Salaris, A. Weiss 367

Is the Universe Younger Than the Galaxy? The Lesson of the Globular Clusters / Oscar Straniero, Alessandro Chieffi, Inmaculata Dominguez, Gianluca Imbriani, Marco Limongi 370

Time Scales and Transitions During Stellar Pulsation and Evolution / R. Szabo, Z. Kollath, Z. Csubry, J. R. Buchler 373

Tuning the Clock: Uranium and Thorium Chronometers Applied to CS 31082-001 / R. Toenjes, H. Schatz, K.-L. Kratz, B. Pfeiffer, T. C. Beers, J. Cowan, V. Hill 376

Session 5. Galaxies

Formation Histories Expected From Cosmological Simulations / Guinevere Kauffmann 381

Merger Time Scales / Joshua E. Barnes 382

Time Scales in Starbursts / Claus Leitherer 390

Evolutionary Time Scales of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies / Gerhard Hensler 401

The Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters in the Antennae Galaxies / Bradley C.

Whitmore 411

Galaxy Deconstruction: Clues From Globular Clusters / Michael J. West 420

The Formation Time Scales of Giant Spheroids / S. C. Trager, S. M. Faber, A. Dressler 429

Time Scale Chemical Enrichment, Transport, and Mixing / Jean-Rene Roy 438

Dating Stellar Populations in Dwarf Starbursting Galaxies / A. Aloisi, C. Leitherer 439

The Ages of Early-Type Galaxies From Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations / Joseph B. Jensen, John L. Tonry, Brian J. Barris, Michael C. Liu 442

Age Estimation of Extragalactic Glbular Cluster Systems Using H[beta] Index / Hyun-chul Lee, Suk-Jin Yoon, Young-Wook Lee 445

An Infrared View of Galactic Spheroid Formation / F. J. Masci, C. J. Lonsdale, R. C. Carlberg 448

Time Scales of Dynamical Processes in the Intergalactic Medium / M. Rauch, W. L. W. Sargent, T. A. Barlow 451

Near IR Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate in M 82 / T. Usuda, N. Kobayashi, H. Terada, S. Matsushita, T. G. Tsuru, T. Harashima, T. Matsumoto, R. Kawabe, M. Goto, A. Tokunaga 454

Spectro-Chemical Evolution of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies / Gerardo A. Vazquez, J. Jesus Gonzalez, Leticia Carigi 457

Time Scales and the Formation of Disk Galaxies / P. R. Williams, A. H. Nelson 460

Protogalaxies and the Hubble Sequence / P. R. Williams, A. H. Nelson 463

Session 6. Galaxy Glusters

Is Cold Dark Matter Still a Strong Buy? The Lesson From Galaxy Clusters / Fabio Governato, Sebastiano Ghigna, Ben Moore 469

Observational Constraints on Cluster Formation at Low Redshift / Lori M. Lubin 481

Ages and Metal Contents of Early-Type Galaxies / Inger Jorgensen 491

Time Scales in X-ray Clusters of Galaxies / Stefano Ettori 500

Faint End of the Galaxy Luminosity Function: A Chronometer for Structure Formation / R. Brent Tully 509

The Oldest Stellar Populations at z [similar] 1.5 / Alan Stockton 517

Session 7. The Universe

Time at the Beginning / Michael S. Turner 529

The Hubble Constant and the Expansion Age of the Universe / Wendy L. Freedman 542

Tunable Filter Surveys for Star Formation Across Different Lookback Times / Heath Jones, Joss Bland-Hawthorn 552

The Evolution of the Lyman Alpha Forest From z [similar] 3 [right arrow] / Romeel Dave 561

Old Galaxies at High Redshift / G. B. Dalton 569

High Redshift Quasars and Star Formation History / M. Dietrich, F. Hamann 575

Cosmic Flows: A Status Report / S. Courteau, A. Dekel 584

Type Ia Supernovae, the Hubble Constant, the Cosmological Constant, and the Age of the Universe / John L. Tonry, The High-Z Supernova Search Team 593

Time Scales of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: Gold Mine in the Universe / Naoshi Sugiyama 603

Cosmic Age in a Lepton-Asymmetric Universe: New Constraints From Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations / T. Kajino, M. Orito, K. Ichiki, S. Kawanomoto, H. Ando, G. J. Mathews, R. N. Boyd 611

The Age of the Universe From Joint Analysis of Cosmological Probes / Ofer Lahav 617

The Static Universe Hypothesis and Observational Proof / Thomas B. Andrews 627

Lengths of the First Days of the Universe / Moshe Carmeli 628

The Scale Expanding Cosmos Theory and a New Conception of the Progression of Time / C. Johan Masreliez 631

JHK Spectroscopy of the z = 2.39 Radio Galaxy 53W002 and Its Companions / K. Motohara, T. Yamada, F. Iwamuro, T. Maihara 634.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1583810838

OCLC:

48190834