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Galaxies and their Masks

A Conference in Honour of K.C. Freeman, FRS

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. David L. Block

    1. University of the Witwatersrand, Johanne, School of Computational and Applied Math, Wits, South Africa

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  2. Kenneth C. Freeman

    1. Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia

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  3. Ivânio Puerari

    1. Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica,, Santa Maria Tonantzintla, Mexico

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  • Contributions from over 40 astronomers from around the world Honors Ken Freeman, father of dark matter in galaxies and one of the most cited astronomers Contains over 200 color images

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (39 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
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  2. Stars are Small Dark-Coloured Things That Live in Holes in the Ground

    • Pippa Skotnes
    Pages 1-22

  3. Shrouds of the Night – Galaxies and René Magritte

    • David L. Block, Kenneth C. Freeman, Ivâo Puerari
    Pages 23-44

  4. Twin Masks of Spiral Structure? A Local Perspective

    • Thomas Y. Steiman-Cameron
    Pages 45-58

  5. The Mask of Complexity in Disk Galaxies

    • Daniel Pfenniger
    Pages 59-66

  6. Cosmic Magnetic Fields – An Overview

    • Richard Wielebinski, Rainer Beck
    Pages 67-86

  7. The Gaseous Halo Mask

    • Mary E. Putman, M. Ryan Joung, Jana Grcevich, Fabian Heitsch
    Pages 87-96

  8. Molecular Gas Properties of Galaxies: The SMA CO(2-1) B0DEGA Legacy Project

    • Daniel Espada, S. Martin, P.-Y. Hsieh, P.T.P. Ho, S. Matsushita, Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro et al.
    Pages 97-104

  9. The DiVA’s Mask: Iconifying Galaxies and Revealing HI Anomalies

    • Jayanne English, Jason Fiege, Theresa Wiegert, Baerbel Koribalski, Wolfgang Kerzendorf, Kenneth C. Freeman
    Pages 105-112

  10. Enigmatic Masks of Cosmic Dust: Lessons from Nearby Galaxies Through the Eyes of the Spitzer Space Telescope

    • Robert Groess, David L. Block, Giovanni G. Fazio
    Pages 113-120

  11. The Large Magellanic Cloud: A Power Spectral Analysis of Spitzer Images

    • Ivânio Puerari, David L. Block, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Frédéric Bournaud
    Pages 121-128

  12. Light Cores Behind Dark Masks

    • Ruben J. Díaz, Damián Mast, Germán Gimeno, Horacio Dottori, Irapuan Rodrigues, María Paz Agüero et al.
    Pages 129-138

  13. Globalization, Open Access Publishing, and the Disappearance of Print: Threat or Opportunity?

    • J.J. Blom
    Pages 139-146

  14. Super Star Clusters and Supernovae in Interacting LIRGs Unmasked by NIR Adaptive Optics

    • Petri Väisänen, Zara Randriamanakoto, Erkki Kankare, Seppo Mattila, Stuart Ryder
    Pages 147-152

  15. Structure, Mass, and Stability of Galactic Disks

    • Pieter van der Kruit
    Pages 153-168

  16. What Can the Radial Surface Brightness Profiles of Galaxy Discs Tell Us About Their Evolution?

    • John E. Beckman, Leonel Gutiérrez, Peter Erwin, Ruyman Azzollini, Inma Martínez-Valpuesta
    Pages 169-186

  17. The Complex Interplay of Dust and Star Light in Spiral Galaxy Discs

    • Maarten Baes, Dimitri Gadotti, Joris Verstappen, Ilse De Looze, Jacopo Fritz, Edgardo Vidal Pérez et al.
    Pages 187-194

  18. Galaxy Morphology Revealed By SDSS: Blue Elliptical Galaxies

    • Hong Bae Ann
    Pages 195-200

  19. Rings and Bars: Unmasking Secular Evolution of Galaxies

    • Johan H. Knapen
    Pages 201-220

  20. Bars and Bulges Through Masks of Time

    • Isabel Pérez, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, A. Zurita, G. Popping, Bard K. Gibson, Pierre Ocvirk
    Pages 221-232
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About this book

Various kinds of masks obscure our view of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as well as of other galaxies. Masks of interstellar dust affect our measurements within galaxies, on scales ranging from individual supernovae to the galaxies themselves. The “mass mask” (our inability to image mass rather than light) gives astronomers a very incomplete picture of the size and structure of galaxies themselves, because we cannot image the dark matter which provides most of the galactic mass. Another mass is the “dynamical mask”: as galaxies form, much dynamical information is lost in the birthing process. A new thrust in research is to retrieve such information by means of chemical tagging. About 50 astronomers flew into Namibia in April 2010, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor K.C. Freeman, Fellow of the Royal Society. At age 70, Freeman, a father of dark matter in galaxies, continues to be one of planet’s most highly cited astronomers. The current volume affords readers a unique perspective on galaxies by probing the thoughts of some of the greatest astronomers of our age. Contributions focus on galaxies from within our Local Group to those in our high redshift Universe. Approximately 40 in-depth review and contributed papers are contained in the volume, each written by an expert in the field. Two unusual features of the current volume include the “Star Country” of the San people of southern Africa as well as the introduction into astronomy of “The Treachery of Images” by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte. “Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see”, said Magritte. These words resonate the theme of the current volume “Galaxies and their Masks”, which is written at a level to be appreciated by both specialist and doctoral student alike.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of the Witwatersrand, Johanne, School of Computational and Applied Math, Wits, South Africa

    David L. Block

  • Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia

    Kenneth C. Freeman

  • Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica,, Santa Maria Tonantzintla, Mexico

    Ivânio Puerari

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