Overview
- Presents expert reviews addressing how the outskirts of galaxies hold the keys to understanding how these regions formed and their evolution
- Offers a compendium of the open questions in the field, and indicates how they may be tackled in future
- Serves as an essential entry point for PhD students and non-specialists, and as an invaluable reference for workers in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 434)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book consists of invited reviews written by world-renowned experts on the subject of the outskirts of galaxies, an upcoming field which has been understudied so far. These regions are faint and hard to observe, yet hide a tremendous amount of information on the origin and early evolution of galaxies. They thus allow astronomers to address some of the most topical problems, such as gaseous and satellite accretion, radial migration, and merging.
The book is published in conjunction with the celebration of the end of the four-year DAGAL project, an EU-funded initial training network, and with a major international conference on the topic held in March 2016 in Toledo. It thus reflects not only the views of the experts, but also the scientific discussions and progress achieved during the project and the meeting. The reviews in the book describe the most modern observations of the outer regions of our own Galaxy, and of galaxies in the local and high-redshift Universe. They tackle disks, haloes, streams, and accretion as observed through deep imaging and spectroscopy, and guide the reader through the various formation and evolution scenarios for galaxies. The reviews focus on the major open questions in the field, and explore how they can be tackled in the future.
This book provides a unique entry point into the field for graduate students and non-specialists, and serves as a reference work for researchers in this exciting new field.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Janice C. Lee is an Associate Astronomer (Tenure-Track) Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, specialising in Extragalactic Astronomy
Armando Gil de Paz is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, specialising in Extragalactic Astronomy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Outskirts of Galaxies
Editors: Johan H. Knapen, Janice C. Lee, Armando Gil de Paz
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56570-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56569-9Published: 18 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85945-3Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56570-5Published: 09 July 2017
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 362
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 65 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Cosmology