The World of Galaxies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Galaxy Catalogues and Classification

   1. Galaxy Catalogues and Surveys

      • Harold G. Corwin Jr.

      Pages 1-15

   2. The Updated Version of the Catalogue of Radial Velocities of Galaxies

      • G. G. C. Palumbo, G. Vettolani, G. Baiesi-Pillastrini, A. P. Fairall

      Pages 16-17

   3. A Survey Catalogue of Ultraviolet-Excess Galaxies

      • B. Takase, N. Miyauche-Isobe

      Pages 18-20

   4. The Edinburgh/Durham Southern Sky Galaxy Survey

      • C. A. Collins, N. H. Heydon-Dumbleton, H. T. MacGillivray

      Pages 21-24

   5. The AAO Distant Galaxy Cluster Survey

      • Warrick J. Couch, Richard S. Ellis, David F. Malin

      Pages 25-28

   6. Galaxy Morphology and Classification

      • Ronald Buta

      Pages 29-47

   7. CCD Observations of a Sample of Emission Line Galaxies

      • P. Focardi, R. Merighi

      Pages 48-49

   8. The Manifold of Galaxian Parameters

      • P. Brosche, F.-Th. Lentes

      Pages 50-52

   9. Toward an Automatic Classification of Galaxies

      • Monique Thonnat

      Pages 53-74

   10. Quantitative Classification of Galaxies

       • S. Okamura, M. Watanabe, K. Kodaira

       Pages 75-94

   11. An Objective Classification System for Spiral Galaxies and Its Relationship to the [N II]/[S II] Ratio

       • Bradley C. Whitmore, Duncan A. Forbes

       Pages 95-98

3. The Magellanic Clouds

   1. The Magellanic Clouds as Late-Type Barred Spirals

      • K. C. Freeman

      Pages 99-107

   2. New Results on the Geometrical Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud

      • D. Hatzidimitriou, M. R. S. Hawkins

      Pages 108-111

   3. The Magellanic Irregular Galaxy DDO 50

      • C. Moss, M. J. Irwin

      Pages 112-115

   4. Photometry and Kinematics of the Magellanic Type Galaxy NGC 4618

      • Stephen C. Odewahn

      Pages 116-117

   5. Chemical Abundance and Age in the Magellanic Clouds; with Special Reference to SN 1987A

      • M. W. Feast

      Pages 118-140

   6. Ages of Star Clusters in the Bok Region of the Large Magellanic Cloud

      • Gonzalo Alcaino, William Liller

      Pages 141-144

   7. Dynamical and Spectral Properties of Some Double Clusters in the LMC

      • M. Kontizas, M. Chrysovergis, E. Kontizas, D. Hatzidimitriou

      Pages 145-148

   8. Clusters of the Small Magellanic Cloud: L 113 and NGC 411

      • Antonella Vallenari

      Pages 149-151

From 12 April to 14 April 1988, 120 of Gerard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs's friends and colleagues gathered at the Institut d' Astrophysique in Paris to cel­ ebrate Gerard's 70th birthday and his remarkable career in Astronomy. The gathering also honored the memory of Antoinette (who died 29 August 1987 after a long illness) and her own no less remarkable career. This volume collects the 24 invited review papers and the 60 contributed poster papers presented at the meeting. Gerard de Vaucouleurs Gerard de Vaucouleurs was born on 25 April 1918 in Paris, where he spent his boyhood. He became an active amateur astronomer in the early 1930's, making extensive observations of Mars, Jupiter, and variable stars (including the bright supernova of 1937 in IC 4182). He also began life-long interests in astronomical photography and galaxy cataloguing during this period. In 1939, he met the director of the Paris transport system and an equally avid amateur astronomer, Julien Peridier. De Vaucouleurs worked at Peridier's private observatory at Le Houga in southwestern France on and off throughout the next decade. His undergraduate work was in mathematics, astronomy, and experimental physics; this, combined with his interest in observational astronomy, formed his life-long empirical approach to science. After spending 18 months in the French army early in 1939 - 41, Gerard returned to the Peridier observatory and then, in 1943, to his studies at the Sorbonne, where he met Antoinette.

• CCD
• Population
• Redshift
• Supernova
• astronomy
• galaxies
• interferometry
• observatory
• photometry
• star
• star formation
• universe

• Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin, USA

  Harold G. Corwin

• Section de Meudon, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France

  Lucette Bottinelli

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