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Toward a New Millennium in Galaxy Morphology

From z=0 to the Lyman Break

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Table of contents (87 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Cosmic Masks Still Dance

    • David L. Block, Ivânio Puerari, Jay A. Frogel, Paul B. Eskridge, Alan Stockton, Burkhard Fuchs
    Pages 5-32
  3. Cosmic Dust in The 21st Century

    • J. Mayo Greenberg, Chuanjian Shen
    Pages 33-58
  4. Resonance Rings and Galaxy Morphology

    • Ronald Buta
    Pages 79-99
  5. The Morphology of Nearby Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

    • Erwin De Blok, Fabian Walter, Eric Bell
    Pages 101-108
  6. Line Strengths and Line Strength Gradients in Bulges Along the Hubble Sequence

    • Paul Goudfrooij, Javier Gorgas, Pascale Jablonka
    Pages 109-118
  7. On The Origin of the Hubble Sequence

    • K. C. Freeman
    Pages 119-137
  8. Evolution of Galaxies in the Hubble Sequence

    • Daniel Pfenniger
    Pages 149-164
  9. Galaxies at High Redshift

    • Garth Illingworth
    Pages 165-181
  10. Metals in the Lyα Forest

    • Sara L. Ellison, Max Pettini, F. Lewis Geraint, Antoinette Songaila, Lennox L. Cowie
    Pages 201-208
  11. The Star Formation History as a Function of Type: Constraints from Galaxy Counts

    • Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange, Michel Fioc
    Pages 233-242
  12. Young and Old Galaxies at High Redshift

    • R. Windhorst, S. Odewahn, C. Burg, S. Cohen, I. Waddington
    Pages 243-262

About this book

South Africa - a land of paradigm shifts. A land where we are willing to leave behind the old, to bravely accept the new. What do we need to exit the dark ages in the morphology of galaxies? How prevalent is the cherishing of old concepts? Traditional morphology has been `mask-oriented', focusing on masks of dust and gas which may constitute only 5 percent of the dynamical mass of a galaxy.
Some of the world's foremost astronomers flew to South Africa to address morphologically related issues at an International Conference, the proceedings of which are contained in this volume. Examine predicted extinction curves for primordial dust at high redshift. Stars evolve; why not dust? Read about the breakdown of the Hubble sequence at a redshift of one. Explore the morphology of rings; the mysteries of metal-rich globular clusters; vigorous star-formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud; the world of secular evolution, where galaxies change their shapes within one Hubble time. And much more. Examine a new kinematical classification scheme of the unmasked, dust-penetrated near-infrared images of spiral galaxies.
This volume contains over 80 refereed contributions (including 18 in-depth keynote review articles), 40 pages of questions and answers, a panel discussion transcribed from tape and 24 colour plates. The volume is unique in that contributions from both high and low redshift experts are represented at a level readily accessible to postdoctoral students entering the exciting world of morphology - whether it be of the local, or more distant, Universe.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    David L. Block

  • Optica y Electrónica, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Tonantzintla, Puebla, México

    Ivânio Puerari

  • Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

    Alan Stockton

  • Dorandia, Pretoria, South Africa

    Dewet Ferreira

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Toward a New Millennium in Galaxy Morphology

  • Book Subtitle: From z=0 to the Lyman Break

  • Editors: David L. Block, Ivânio Puerari, Alan Stockton, Dewet Ferreira

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4114-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6185-5Published: 31 July 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5801-8Published: 21 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4114-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 821

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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