Lithium across the universe /

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"Version: 20230901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Background -- 1.1. A brief history of lithium -- 1.2. Atomic lithium in the gas phase -- 1.3. The lithium isotope ratio -- 1.4. Lithium in molecules -- 1.5. Lithium in solids2. Creation, destruction and preservation of lithium -- 2.1. Big bang lithium synthesis -- 2.2. Galactic sources of lithium -- 2.3. Where is lithium destroyed? -- 2.4. Where is lithium preserved?3. Lithium transport mechanisms -- 3.1. Convection -- 3.2. Overshooting -- 3.3. Rotationally induced mixing -- 3.4. Diffusion -- 3.5. Gravity waves -- 3.6. Mass loss -- 3.7. Mass accretion4. Lithium in the ISM and new-formed stars -- 4.1. Lithium in the ISM -- 4.2. Lithium in new-formed stars -- 4.3. Pre-main-sequence lithium burning -- 4.4. Lithium as a chronometer in very young stars5. Lithium in main and post-main-sequence stars -- 5.1. Lithium in solar-type stars -- 5.2. Lithium in stars more massive than the sun -- 5.3. Lithium in orange dwarfs -- 5.4. Lithium in red dwarfs -- 5.5. Lithium in evolved stars -- 5.6. Lithium as a stellar chronometer6. Lithium in halo stars and chemical evolution -- 6.1. The primordial lithium abundance and the cosmological tension -- 6.2. Evolution of lithium on cosmic scale7. Lithium in failed stars (brown dwarfs) -- 7.1. Discovery of lithium in UX Tau C -- 7.2. The lithium test for brown dwarf candidates -- 7.3. The first lithium brown dwarfs -- 7.4. Lithium abundances in brown dwarfs -- 7.5. The substellar lithium depletion boundary -- 7.6. Lithium in brown dwarf binaries -- 7.7. Lithium in metal-poor brown dwarfs8. Lithium in exoplanets and their stellar hosts -- 8.1. Lithium in exoplanet hosts -- 8.2. Lithium as a tracer of planetary accretion onto main-sequence stars -- 8.3. Lithium as a relic of substellar companion engulfment by red giants -- 8.4. Lithium in exoplanetary atmospheres.Lithium depletion in the Universe remains a matter of investigation This book aims to carry out a wide-ranging inquisitive review of over half a century of astronomical observations of lithium and astrophysical developments to understand its behaviour in diverse environments across the Universe. The scope is wide, from the primordial nucleosynthesis in the early universe, to the evolution in the Milky Way and other galaxies and the internal processes that determine the depletion or preservation in stars, brown dwarfs and exoplanets. The approach is to focus on the basic concepts, to describe the chronology of key observations and theoretical developments, with as little mathematical equations as possible, and to provide critical assessment of ongoing controversies and unsolved problems.Students and researchers in astronomy.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Eduardo Mart?in has been a CSIC professor since 2009. He carried out his doctoral studies and research at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and at the IAC. He has been a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Anton Pannekoek Institut of the University of Amsterdam and a professor at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Hawaii. He was one of the proposers of the successful lithium test for brown dwarfs in the early 1990s, and he has investigated lithium in X-ray binaries, exoplanet hosts, halo stars, young solar-type stars, T Tauri stars, substellar-mass objects, and red giants.Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 3, 2023).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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9780750336239

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Galaxies & stars.
SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy.
Cosmochemistry.
Lithium.
Cosmic abundances.

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