The Harlow-Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Review Papers Harlow Shapley

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Shapley’s Debate

      • Michael Hoskin

      Pages 3-9

   3. Shapley’s Era

      • Helen Sawyer Hogg

      Pages 11-22

   4. Shapley’s Impact

      • Owen Gingerich

      Pages 23-30

   5. Discussion

      • Jonathan E. Grindlay, A. G. Davis Philip

      Pages 31-33

3. Review Papers Globular Clusters in the Milky Way

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-36

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   2. An Overview of the Globular Cluster System of the Galaxy

      • Robert Zinn

      Pages 37-46

   3. Discussion

      • Jonathan E. Grindlay, A. G. Davis Philip

      Pages 47-48

   4. Kinematics of the Galactic Globular Cluster System

      • R. F. Webbink

      Pages 49-59

   5. Discussion

      • Jonathan E. Grindlay, A. G. Davis Philip

      Pages 60-60

   6. Globular Cluster Color-Magnitude Diagrams

      • James E. Hesser

      Pages 61-76

   7. Discussion

      • Jonathan E. Grindlay, A. G. Davis Philip

      Pages 77-78

   8. The Overall Abundances of Globular Clusters

      • R. A. Bell

      Pages 79-90

   9. Discussion

      • Jonathan E. Grindlay, A. G. Davis Philip

      Pages 91-92

   10. The Chemical Inhomogeneity within Globular Clusters

       • John Norris

       Pages 93-105

   11. Discussion

       • Jonathan E. Grindlay, A. G. Davis Philip

       Pages 106-106

   12. Ages of the Galactic Globular Clusters

       • Don A. Vandenberg

       Pages 107-117

   13. Discussion

       • Jonathan E. Grindlay, A. G. Davis Philip

       Pages 118-120

   14. Globular Cluster Luminosity Functions

       • Pierre Demarque

       Pages 121-130

In the centennial year, 1985-86, of Harlow Shapley's birth, the study of globular clusters was no less important to the development of astronomy than in 1915, when Shapley first noted their concentration on the sky. By 1917 Shapley had used the properties of the system of globular clusters to complete the Copernican revolution and locate the solar system, and its Earth-bound observers, far from the center of the Galaxy and the globular cluster distribution. Seven decades later, in the year of these proceedings, globular cluster research and the study of the system of globular clusters in our own and distant galaxies is undergoing a renaissance of activity. The introduction of new observational tools, particularly CCD imagers and digital spectrographs, as well as powerful theoretical methods have transformed the study of globular clusters into one of the main line areas of modern astrophysics. Thus it seemed particularly appropriate to one of us, when considering how the Harvard College Observatory might mark the Shapley centennial, to propose and plan for an IAU Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies. Planning for the Shapley Symposium, as it came to be called, was even more drawn out than the preparation of this volume. The Symposium was originally proposed to the IAU Secretariat in time for it to be held in August, 1985, so that it might occur in the centennial (calendar) year.

• CCD
• astronomy
• astrophysics
• galaxy
• interstellar matter
• milky way
• observatory
• photometry
• solar system
• star
• star cluster
• stellar evolution
• telescope

• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA

  Jonathan E. Grindlay

• Van Vleck Observatory and Union College, Schenectady, USA

  A. G. Davis Philip

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