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Jonathan E. Grindlay
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
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A. G. Davis Philip
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Van Vleck Observatory and Union College, Schenectady, USA
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Table of contents (169 papers)
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Poster Papers Cluster Systems in Nearby Galaxies
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- E. Kontizas, M. Kontizas, A. Dapergolas, D. Hatzidmitriou
Pages 573-574
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- J. Buttress, R. D. Cannon, W. K. Griffiths
Pages 575-576
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- R. A. Schommer, Doug Geisler
Pages 577-578
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- Bruce W. Carney, P. Seitzer
Pages 581-581
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- Robert M. Light, P. Seitzer
Pages 583-584
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- Michael M. Shara, Michael Potter, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Amelia Wehlau
Pages 585-586
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- C. Cacciari, G. Clementini, L. Prevot
Pages 587-588
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- Rodney V. Jones, Bruce W. Carney, David W. Latham, Robert L. Kurucz
Pages 589-590
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- Christine M. Clement, James M. Nemec, Robert J. Dickens, Elizabeth A. Bingham
Pages 591-592
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- Jonathan E. Grindlay, A. G. Davis Philip
Pages 595-600
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Poster Papers Cluster Systems in Distant Galaxies Deep Photometry, CM Diagrams
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Front Matter
Pages 601-602
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- H. Zinnecker, C. J. Keable, J. S. Dunlop, R. D. Cannon, W. K. Griffiths
Pages 603-604
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- Tod R. Lauer, John Kormendy
Pages 607-608
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- Laird A. Thompson, F. Valdes
Pages 611-612
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- Hugh G. Harris, Gregory D. Bothun, James E. Hesser
Pages 613-614
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- E. V. Held, M. Capaccioli
Pages 615-616
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
Jonathan E. Grindlay
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Van Vleck Observatory and Union College, Schenectady, USA
A. G. Davis Philip