New Extragalactic Perspectives in the New South Africa Proceedings of the International Conference on “Cold Dust and Galaxy Morphology” held in Johannesburg, South Africa, January 22–26, 1996
The date: September 30, 1880 The place: A private observatory in Hastings-on-Hudson Profession of the observer: A medical doctor The instrument: An l1-inch Clark refractor. The significance of that night marked one of the truly great turning points in the development of astronomical techniques: Dr H...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1996, 1996
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1996 |
| Series: | Astrophysics and Space Science Library
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Table of Contents:
- The opacity of low surface brightness galaxies and their contribution to Quasar absorption
- The morphology of massive, gas-rich low surface brightness galaxies
- 38 micron images of galaxies: The infrared luminosity
- Poster Papers
- Dust in early-type galaxies: New results on the wavelength dependence of the extinction
- New radiative transfer models of disc galaxies and the scale-length test for dust diagnostics
- The distribution of cold dust within the Galaxy
- Detection of extended dust in a radioquiet galaxy at redshift 2.38
- Extinction in the direction of the end-of-bar star formation region
- Sampling the bar population
- Chasing shadows in the TMGS
- Imaging the inner Galaxy
- Fabry-Perot imaging of dust grain processing in M82
- The HI content of a complete sample of Sa galaxies
- Massive galactic halos and dark matter: Unusual properties of neutrinos in the de Sitter Universe
- Dust in a radio galaxy at z=4.25
- Dust in galaxies: A far infrared perspective
- Search for cold molecular gas
- Galactic structure and morphology of the Milky Way from the TMGS
- Unveiling large-scale structures behind the Milky Way
- The distribution of dust and gas in elliptical galaxies
- The ionized gas in early-type galaxies
- HST imaging of the dust in kinematically distinct core ellipticals
- Dust and gas in the outer parts of galaxies
- Dust spectra of the Milky Way: Primordial molecular hydrogen and helium in the outer Galaxy
- Fundamental aspects of the ISM fractality
- The DM-HI connection
- Very cold gas and dark matter
- Constraints on the surface density of gas in outer galaxy disks from stability analyses
- The changing circumstellar environment of young stars
- Interstellar dust in the solar system
- Pre-stellar cores and the initial conditions for star formation
- Dust and Morphology of high redshift radio galaxies: Clues from scattering
- Dust obscured Quasars
- Changing perceptions of the morphology and dust content in galaxies
- How cold could galaxies be?
- Temperature fluctuations and very cold dust
- The interstellar medium as observed by COBE
- Molecular gas in spiral galaxies
- Cold dust signatures on SNR gamma ray spectra
- Optical and infrared images of galaxies: What’s to be learned?
- Optical, IR and HI observations of a large complete cluster sample
- The relationship between near IR extinction and CO emission
- Extinction and dust column density in spiral disks from FIR vs UV-Optical comparison
- The effects of supergiants on the infrared light distribution in galaxies
- Reflections at the Registration Desk
- Distribution and Content of dust in overlapping galaxy systems
- Evolution and emission of cold, warm and hot dust populations in diffuse and molecular clouds
- Organics and ices in galactic dust
- Studies of NIR dust absorption features in the nuclei of Active and IRAS galaxies
- Tiny grains and large molecules in the Milky Way and other galaxies
- The role of UV observations in understanding dust and its morphology
- Studies of interstellar dust and gas with the far ultraviolet cameras and far ultraviolet imaging spectrograph space shuttle investigations
- High spatial resolution 50 and 100 micron KAO observations of infrared-bright galaxies
- Infrared photometry and dust absorption in highly inclined spiral galaxies
- The nature of interstellar dust in Local Group galaxies from observations of extinction and polarization
- Structure in the distribution of the dust and its impact on extragalactic studies
- Determination of the 3D dust distribution in spiral galaxies
- A 3D dust model for the Sombrero galaxy
- Doubling of the infrared flux from NGC1068: a circumnuclear dust torus?
- Resolving the faintgalaxy excess with HST: Results from the Medium Deep Survey
- Spiral structure in galaxies: Competition and cooperation of gas and stars
- Color gradients in M99: Stellar populations or dust?
- Amplitude and shape of spiral arms in K'
- The bulge/disk connection in late-type spirals
- Dust in starburst galaxies: From the ultraviolet to the near infrared
- Near-infrared surface photometry of barred spiral galaxies
- Barred galaxies in the near-IR: Observations and dynamical implications
- Morphology and dynamics of a few giant galaxies with low surface brightness disks
- Secular evolution of galaxy morphologies
- Dusty disks and the structure of early-type galaxies
- Dust and gas in Local Group galaxies
- The nuclear regions of M31, M32 and M33 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
- Gas and dust in normal and active galaxies
- mm observations of IRAS galaxies: Dust properties, luminosity functions and contributions to the sub-mm background
- Mapping the cold dust in edge-on galaxies at 1.2mm wavelength
- Internal absorption in spiral galaxies using four colours
- Voyager observations of dust scattered starlight
- Dust and stars in the nuclear region of M51
- Gaseous and stellar responses to spiral perturbations detected in the NIR
- Attenuation and stellar population gradients in spiral galaxies
- FIR and CII emissions in NGC6946
- The composition of interstellar dust
- Dust in radio galaxies: Clues to activity
- Defining spiral structure in the flocculent galaxy NGC5055
- Where does dust absorb most light?
- On the angular-momentum transport in spiral and barred galaxies
- Dust, stars and nuclear activity in the centres of Sbc galaxies
- The polarizing properties of dust in NGC5128
- Concluding Thoughts
- Astronomy at the University of the Witwatersrand
- Eyes to the Future: An Interactive Panel/Audience Discussion
- Each Chairperson Reflects on their Session
- The Riddle
- ‘Where dust is stars’
- The Participants
- The Colour Plates