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1 Near Field Cosmology: The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group |
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1.2.1 The Cosmic Microwave Background |
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1.2.3 The First Black Holes |
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1.2.4 The First Dark Haloes |
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1.2.5 Reionization and the First Galaxies |
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1.3 Lessons from Galaxy Redshift Surveys |
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1.3.1 Evolution and Environment |
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1.3.2 Accretion and Feedback |
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1.3.3 Baryon Inventory and Metal Enrichment |
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1.3.4 Chemical Evolution in Galaxies |
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1.3.5 Milky Way and Local Group Analogues in the Real Universe |
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1.3.6 Milky Way and Local Group Analogues in Simulated Universes |
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1.4 Gas Accretion onto Galaxies |
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1.4.2 Earliest Epoch of Gas Accretion |
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1.4.3 Early Ideas on Galaxy Accretion |
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1.4.8 Accretion via Major and Minor Mergers |
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1.4.9 Accretion of High Velocity Clouds |
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1.5.2 A Working Model of How the Galaxy Formed |
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1.5.3 Timescales and Fossils |
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1.5.5 Goals of Near Field Cosmology |
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1.6 Structure of the Galaxy |
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1.7 Signatures of Galaxy Formation |
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1.7.1 Zero Order Signatures: Information Preserved Since Dark Matter Virialized |
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1.7.2 First Order Signatures: Information Preserved Since the Main Epoch of Baryon Dissipation |
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1.7.3 Second Order Signatures: Major Processes Involved in Subsequent Evolution |
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1.8 Reconstructing the Past Through Chemical Tagging |
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1.8.1 Unravelling a Dissipative Process |
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1.8.2 How Many Star Clusters? |
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1.8.4 Chemical Homogeneity |
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1.8.5 Unique Chemical Signatures |
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1.8.6 Primary Requirements of Chemical Tagging |
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1.8.7 Candidates for Chemical Tagging |
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1.8.8 Short-Term Goal: Size and Structure in a Multi-Dimensional C-Space |
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1.8.9 Long-Term Goal: Reconstructing Ancient Star Groups from Unique Chemical Signatures |
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1.9 Epilogue: Challenges for the Future |
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1.9.1 The Limitations of Near Field Cosmology: Are We Really Putting ˆCDM to the Test? |
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Appendix A The Discovery of Dark Matter in Galaxies |
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Appendix B Stellar Data: Sources and Techniques |
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B.1 Data Needed for Galactic Archaeology |
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2 Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way and Its Satellites |
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2.1 How to Model Galactic Chemical Evolution |
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2.1.1 The Initial Conditions |
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2.2 Basic Equations for Chemical Evolution |
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2.2.1 Yields per Stellar Generation |
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2.2.3 Detailed Numerical Models |
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2.3.1 The Formation of the Milky Way |
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2.3.2 The Two-Infall Model |
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2.3.3 Detailed Recipes for the Two-Infall Model |
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2.3.4 The Chemical Enrichment History of the Solar Vicinity |
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2.4 What We Have Learned About the Milky Way |
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2.5 The Time-Delay Model and the Hubble Sequence |
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2.5.1 Star Formation and Hubble Sequence |
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2.6 Dwarf Spheroidals of the Local Group |
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2.6.2 Observations of dSphs |
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2.6.3 Chemical Evolution of dSphs |
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2.6.4 What Have we Learned About dSphs? |
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2.7 Ultra-Faint Dwarfs in the Local Group |
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2.8.1 Chemical Models for External Spirals |
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2.9 Cosmic Chemical Evolution |
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