IAR   05382
INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE RADIOASTRONOMIA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
libros
Título:
From the First Structures to the Universe Today
Autor/es:
DE ROSSI, M.E.; PEDROSA, S.; PELLIZZA, L.
Editorial:
Asociación Argentina Astronomía
Referencias:
Año: 2013 p. 154
ISSN:
978-987-24948-1-0
Resumen:
Our knowledge of how cosmic structures formed and evolved has improved in the last decades as new and more precise observations are being achieved. Moreover, the development of more sophisticated theoretical models and the advent of high-resolution numerical simulations have contributed a great deal to the comprehension of the physical universe. Therefore, the confrontation of observations and theoretical models is crucial to improve our understanding of galaxy formation within the hierarchical clustering scenario. In November 2011, the ?Second Workshop on Numerical and Observational Astrophysics: From the First Structures to the Universe Today? was held in the Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. This international workshop brought together about seventy active scientists working in both areas to discuss about new results and future challenges. Stimulating discussions were fostered among participants in a friendly at mosphere to obtain new insight into different open issues which include: ? The physical processes which might regulate the star formation activity over Hubble time. ? The role of metals in galaxy formation. ? The interplay between environmental effects and internal processes to shape a galaxy. ? The impact of galaxy formation on the properties of the intergalactic and intracluster media. The meeting also included extended talks focused on providing students and researchers with new knowledge on the very high-redshift universe and on challenges posed by current state-of-arts numerical models. This is an exciting and promising field of research for the next years given the development of new observational instruments which will yield unprecedented results about the first stages of structure formation. This book contains the proceedings arising from this fruitful meeting. In order to improve the scientific content and editorial quality, all published manuscripts were subject to a referee process by experts in the different fields. The Editorial Committe is very grateful to all the collegues who contributed by reviewing these proceedings. Finally, we would like to deeply thank all participants for making this meeting such a success and especially, our invited lecturers and speakers whose presentations were excellent. This success was also possible thanks to our Scientific vii Organizing Committe composed by leading expert in the field and the enthusiastic work of the Local Organizing Committe. We would also like to express our gratitude to our collegues at IAFE and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (Universidad de Buenos Aires) for providing a friendly atmosphere during the meeting and also helping us with some organization tasks. Likewise we are grateful to our sponsors that partially supported this meeting.