The Galaxy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Galactic Distance Scales

   • M. W. Feast

   Pages 1-25

3. Comparison of the Galaxy with External Spiral Galaxies

   • P. C. van der Kruit

   Pages 27-50

4. The Galactic Center

   • Reinhard Genzel

   Pages 51-79

5. The High Energy Galaxy

   • Catherine J. Cesarsky

   Pages 81-104

6. Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy

   • P. M. Solomon, A. R. Rivolo

   Pages 105-140

7. The Morphology of Cool, Diffuse Gas and Dust in the Galaxy

   • W. B. Burton, E. R. Deul

   Pages 141-172

8. Highly Evolved Stars in the Galaxy as Seen by Iras and in OH Surveys

   • H. J. Habing

   Pages 173-197

9. Nonlinear Phenomena in Spiral Galaxies

   • G. Contopoulos

   Pages 199-210

10. Stellar Superclusters and Groups

    • Olin J. Eggen

    Pages 211-227

11. An Investigation of the Relations Between Age, Chemical Composition and Parameters of Velocity Distribution Based on uvbyβ Photometry of F Stars within 100 Parsec

    • Bengt Strömgren

    Pages 229-246

12. The Multivariate Stellar Distribution Function

    • Gerard Gilmore, Rosemary F. G. Wyse

    Pages 247-279

13. The Structure of the Galactic Halo

    • F. D. A. Hartwick

    Pages 281-290

14. Kinematics of Old Stars

    • K. C. Freeman

    Pages 291-295

15. Population Studies of the Galaxy — Constraints on the Thin Disk, the Thick Disk, and the Halo

    • John Norris

    Pages 297-320

16. Kinematics and Galactic Structure

    • Allan Sandage

    Pages 321-340

17. Galactic Chemical Evolution

    • B. E. J. Pagel

    Pages 341-364

18. Mass Loss from Single and Close Binary Stars

    • Icko Iben Jr

    Pages 365-374

19. Dynamical Evolution of the Galactic Disk

    • Burkhard Fuchs, Roland Wielen

    Pages 375-398

20. The Galaxy in Action Space

    • James Binney

    Pages 399-412

The Milky Way Galaxy offers a unique opportunity to study the structure and contents of a major stellar system in three dimensions, at high spatial and spectral resolution, and to very large galactocentric distances. This potential can be realised only by statistical surveys of large areas of the sky, and by detailed study of specific regions with exceptional properties, such as the Galactic centre, and of specific classes of object, such as the globular clusters. The acquisition of such data from a variety of ground-based and satellite surveys has been a primary topic of Galactic research for some years. Several such surveys have been completed recently, and have led to a substantial modification of our understanding of Galactic structure and evolution. The importance of the ability of satellite observatories to survey and to study wavelengths which are inaccessible from the ground is evident in the wealth of data discussed and analysed in this volume which is derived from satellites, specifically COS-B, HEAD-I, HEAO-3, IRAS, PIONEER-lO, SAS-2, and TENMA. The cru­ cial role of ground-based observations to complement and comprehend the satellite data is also well evident. Similarly, the major ground-based studies whose results are reported here illustrate the necessity for carefully conceived and executed very large scale surveys of many types of object and many parts of parameter space before a coherent picture of the Galaxy will be available.

• Galaxy
• Population
• galaxies
• milky way
• observatory
• photometry
• stellar

`... the editors can be proud of the results of what must have been a prodigious effort; they point the way for future productions.
The scientific content fully deserves such presentation.'
The Observatory, Vol. 108.

• Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK

  Gerry Gilmore, Bob Carswell

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