A new chemodynamical tool to study the evolution of galaxies in the local Universe: a quick and accurate numerical technique to compute gas cooling rate for any chemical composition

Abstract

We have developed a quick and accurate numerical tool to compute gas cooling whichever its chemical composition.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of "Heating vs. Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies", August 2006, Garching (Germany), Eds. Boehringer, Schuecker, Pratt, Finoguenov, Springer-Verlag series "ESO Astrophysics Symposia