New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics: The Link Between Stars and Cosmology: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Puerto Vallarta, M?ico, (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Part I: Stellar Atmospheres. A Few Things We Do Not Know About Stars and Model Atmospheres; R.L. Kurucz. Cool Stellar Atmospheres; P.H. Hauschildt, et al. A Critical Appraisal of ATLAS9 and NextGen5 Model Atmospheres; E. Bertone, et al. A Precise New Method to Correcting Temperature in Stellar Atmospheres; O. Cardona, et al. New Phenomena Discovered in the Atmospheres of Normal Late-B Type Stars; S. Hubrig, et al. Heating the Quiet Corona by Explosive Events in UV: Results from SUMER on board SoHO; J.P. Torres-Papaqui, E. Mendoza. A Grid of Synthetic Stellar UV Fluxes; L.H. Rodriguez-Merino, et al. A Grid of LTE Zero-Metallicity Stellar Fluxes; M. Chavez, O. Cardona. Part II: Population III and Zero-Metal Stars.The Evolutionary Properties of Zero-Metal Stars in the Mass Range Between 4 and 100 Mo; C. Chieffi, et al. The Peculiar Evolution of Low-Mass Pop III Stars; H. Schlattl, et al. Zero-Metal Stellar Yields, the IMF for Population III and Nucleosynthetic Constraints; C. Abia, et al. The Stellar IMF in Very Metal-Deficient Gas; F. Nakamura, M. Umemura. Cosmological Origin of the Lowest Metallicity Halo Stars; X. Hernandez, A. Ferrara. Cosmological Chemistry and the Formation of the First Objects; A. Lipovka, et al. The Primordial Li: New Observations; P. Bonifacio. Part III: Stars in the Milky Way. Star Formation History in the Solar Neighborhood: the Link Between Stars and Cosmology; V. Avila-Reese, et al. Carbon and Oxygen Galactic Abundance Gradients Predicted by Different Stellar Yields; L. Carigi. The Upper End of the Galactic Metallicity Scale; B.J. Taylor. Spectral Indices of Stars at Super-solar Regime; A. Buzzoni, et al. The Proper Motion of the GlobularCluster NGC 6553 and of Bulge Stars with HST; M. Zoccali, et al. Update on Globular Cluster Ages; P. Demarque, et al. A Survey of Open Clusters at San Pedro Martir; A. Moitinho, et al. About the IMF in Young Stellar Clusters; A. Porras, et al. Part IV: Stars in Local Galaxies. Reconstructing Star Formation Episodes in the Local Group; D. Valls-Gabaud, et al. Deep Studies of the Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts of M31; A.M.N. Ferguson. Comments on Binary Star Evolution and the Small Magellanic Cloud System HD 5980; G. Koenigsberger, E. Moreno. Stellar Metallicities Beyond the Local Group with VLT/FORS; N. Przybilla, et al. An Estimate of HO using Cepheid Period Luminosity Relations at Maximum Light; S.M. Kanbur, S. Nikolaev. H&agr; Luminosity Function of H II Regions: Preliminary Calibration of a Powerful Standard Candle; M. Rozas, et al. On the Behavior of the Ionizes Gas in NGC 4449; M. Valdez-Gutierrez, et al. NGC 5044-N50: a Link Between Blue Compact Galaxies and Dwarf Ellipticals; S.A. Cellone, A. Buzzoni. Star Formation in Ring Galaxies; Y.D. Mayya, R. Romano. Part V: Population Synthesis and Galaxy Models. Recent Star Formation in Galaxies; A. Bressan. Extinction and Star Formation Histories of Nearby Starburst Galaxies; Y.D. Mayya, et al. Dust and Nebular Emission in Star Forming Galaxies; P. Panuzzo, et al. Modeling the Radio to X-ray SED of Galaxies; L. Silva, et al. Population Synthesis in the Blue and the Spectroscopic Age of 47 Tucanae; R.P. Schiavon, et al. On the Properties of Population III Stars and 'Galaxies'; D. Schaerer. Population Synthesis and the Diagnostics of High-Redshift Galaxies; A.