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Kinematics, Dynamics and Structure of the Milky Way

Proceedings of a Workshop on “The Milky Way” Held in Vancouver, Canada, May 17–19, 1982

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. W. L. H. Shuter

    1. Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 100)

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Table of contents (50 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. New Trends in Milky Way Research

    • Bart J. Bok
    Pages 1-7

  3. Magnetic Field Strength Measurements in Two Types of Region

    • Carl Heiles, Thomas H. Troland
    Pages 9-9

  4. A Photometric Study of the Lower Main Sequences of the Hyades and the Field Stars

    • A. R. Upgren, E. W. Weis
    Pages 11-13

  5. The Coordination of Space and Ground-Based Parallax Programs for Improvement of the Stellar Luminosity Function

    • A. R. Upgren
    Pages 15-19

  6. Changes in Interstellar Atomic Abundances from the Galactic Plane to the Halo

    • Edward B. Jenkins
    Pages 21-30

  7. Gamma Radiation as a Tracer of the Local Interstellar Gas

    • J. B. G. M. Bloemen
    Pages 31-41

  8. The Oort Comet Halo and Giant Molecular Clouds

    • Sidney van den Bergh
    Pages 43-45

  9. On the Local Standard of Rest

    • C. Yuan
    Pages 47-52

  10. On the Analysis of Motions Perpendicular to the Galactic Plane

    • Ivan R. King
    Pages 53-54

  11. Local Galactic Structure and Velocity Field

    • Per Olof Lindblad
    Pages 55-58

  12. On the Determination of R o

    • M. W. Ovenden, J. Byl
    Pages 59-66

  13. The Velocity Fields of Gas and Stars within Five KPC of the Sun

    • M. W. Ovenden, M. H. L. Pryce, W. L. H. Shuter
    Pages 67-72

  14. A Comparison of the Velocity Fields of Young Stellar Objects and of Sharpless H II Regions

    • M. H. L. Pryce
    Pages 73-75

  15. Determination of AR⊙

    • W. L. H. Shuter
    Pages 77-79

  16. Velocity Distribution of Stars and Relaxation in the Galactic Disk

    • Roland Wielen, Burkhard Fuchs
    Pages 81-90

  17. The Large-Scale Structure of Atomic Hydrogen

    • F. J. Kerr
    Pages 91-96

  18. Large-Scale Structure of HI in the Outer Galaxy

    • Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Leo Blitz, Carl Heiles
    Pages 97-104

  19. More HI Shells and Supershells or a New Explanation of “Noncircular Motions” in the Galaxy

    • Carl Heiles
    Pages 105-108

  20. Low Latitude Absorption Spectra

    • J. M. Dickey, S. R. Kulkarni, J. H. van Gorkom, J. M. Benson, C. E. Heiles
    Pages 109-114
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About this book

The idea of holding this workshop on "The Jllilky Way" arose at the conference dinner of a meeting on "Regions of Recent Star Formation" held at Penticton in June 1981. Leo Blitz (now at the University of Maryland) and I decided that there was a need, and agreed that we would organize one in Vancouver in the Spring of 1982. The purpose of the workshop was to have an intensive exchange of ideas between some of the most active workers in the field regarding the recent work which has been significantly changing our concepts of the Milky Way. To achieve this we limited the number of participants, and planned the program so that there was ample time for discussion. The meeting appeared to work very well, both scientifically and socially, and this volume contains 50 of the 55 papers that were The discussion was very lengthy, but since the papers were presented. written up after the meeting many of the points raised have been in the publications, and it seems pointless to reproduce it incorporated here. Leo and I would like to thank the many people who helped to make the meeting a success: at UBC) and Frank J. Kerr (Provost of MPSE C.V. Finnegan (Dean of Science at the University of Maryland) who welcomed the participants on behalf of the sponsoring Universities. Bart Bok who opened the scientific proceedings, and Maarten Schmidt who gave the closing summary.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    W. L. H. Shuter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Kinematics, Dynamics and Structure of the Milky Way

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Workshop on “The Milky Way” Held in Vancouver, Canada, May 17–19, 1982

  • Editors: W. L. H. Shuter

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7060-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1540-1Due: 31 January 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-7062-5Published: 15 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7060-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 404

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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