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Chemical Evolution of Galaxies

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Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Evolution of Early Universe

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Initial conditions are probably set by results of Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBNS) without intervening com­plications affecting the composition of visible matter so that extrapolation of observed abundances to BBNS products seems fairly secure. Primordial helium and deuterium abundances deduced in this way place upper and lower limits on baryonic density implying that both baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter exist and predicting no more than 3 neutrino flavours as recently confirmed in accelerator experiments. The validity of simple galactic chemical evolution models assumed in extrapolating back to the Big Bang is examined in the light of the frequency distribution of iron or oxygen abundances in the Galactic halo, bulge and disk.

Invited talk to IUAP Conference on Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Evolution of Early Universe, Tokyo, 4-8 Sepetmber 1990. K. Sato (ed.). Kluwer publication.

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Pagel, B.E.J. (1991). Chemical Evolution of Galaxies. In: Sato, K., Audouze, J. (eds) Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Evolution of Early Universe. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 169. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3410-1_5

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