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Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications

Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 18–20 November 1996

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  1. Luiz Nicolaci Costa

    1. European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

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  2. Alvio Renzini

    1. European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

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Table of contents (59 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Origins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    3. Can the Tully-Fisher Relation Be the Result of Initial Conditions?

      • Daniel J. Eisenstein, Abraham Loeb
      Pages 15-24

    5. A Universal IMF: Tilt of the Fundamental Plane

      • Cesare Chiosi, Alessandro Bressan
      Pages 30-37

    7. The Role of Photoionization During Galaxy Formation

      • Alain Blanchard, Simon Prunet
      Pages 44-51

    8. Semianalytic Modelling of Galaxy Evolution

      • C. M. Baugh, S. Cole, C. S. Frenk, C. G. Lacey
      Pages 52-63

    9. Dark Halo Scaling from Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing

      • Peter Schneider
      Pages 64-72

  3. Evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. The Fundamental-Plane and Tully-Fisher Relations Viewed in κ-Space

      • Ralf Bender, David Burstein, Sandra M. Faber
      Pages 95-102

    3. Photometric Scaling Relations of Dwarf Galaxies

      • Bruno Binggeli, Helmut Jerjen
      Pages 103-112

    4. The Scaling Laws of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies

      • Enrico V. Held, Jeremy R. Mould, Kenneth C. Freeman
      Pages 113-118

    5. Bimodality of Freeman’s Law

      • R. Brent Tully, Marc A. W. Verheijen
      Pages 119-125

    6. On the Phenomenology of Disk Galaxies

      • Giuseppe Gavazzi
      Pages 126-131

    7. Origin of the Colour-Magnitude Relation of Elliptical Galaxies

      • Nobuo Arimoto, Tadayuki Kodama
      Pages 132-139

    8. Stellar Populations in Bulges of Spiral Galaxies

      • Pascale Jablonka
      Pages 140-145
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About this book

At close inspection every galaxy appears to have its own individuality.A galaxy can be warped, lop-sided, doubly-nucleated, boxy or disky, ... in its own specific, peculiar way. Hence, for a complete description, galaxy taxonomy may ask for finer and finer classification schemes. However, for some applications it may be more fruitful to let details aside and focus on some global properties of galaxies. One is then seeking to measure just a few quantities for each galaxy, a minimum set of globalobservables that yet captures some essential aspect of these objects. One very successful example of this approach is offered by the scaling rela­ tions of galaxies, the subject of the international workshop held at ESO head­ quarters in Garching on November 19-21, 1996. Discovered in the late 1970's, the Tully-Fisher relation for the spirals and the Faber-Jackson relation, or its more recent version the Fundamental Plane, for ellipticals have now become flourishing fields of astronomical research in their own right, as well as being widely used tools for a broad range of astronomical investigations. The work­ shop was designed to address three key issues on galaxy scaling relations, i.e., their Origins, Evolution, and Applications in astronomy. The Origins of galaxy scaling relations still escape our full understanding.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

    Luiz Nicolaci Costa, Alvio Renzini

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 18–20 November 1996

  • Editors: Luiz Nicolaci Costa, Alvio Renzini

  • Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69654-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-21934-8Published: 18 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69654-4Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1431-2433

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 404

  • Number of Illustrations: 303 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Geophysics/Geodesy

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