From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies : Dialogues on a Century of Research.
In order to outline possible future directions in galaxy research, this book wants to be a short stopover, a moment of self-reflection of the past century of achievements in this area. Since the pioneering years of galaxy research in the early 20th century, the research on galaxies has seen a relent...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Preface; Authors' Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Extragalactic Astronomy: From Pioneers to Big Science; 1.1 Outline of the Chapter; 1.2 The Pioneering Time; 1.3 From WWII to the Big Science: Some Geographic Angles; 1.3.1 USA: Preserving the Leadership; 1.3.1.1 The Progresses in Radio Astronomy; 1.3.2 The Extragalactic Research in the Ex Soviet Union; 1.3.3 UK and Commonwealth Countries; 1.3.4 The Dream of European Astronomers After WWII; 1.3.5 The Growth of Extragalactic Astronomy in Latin America; 1.3.6 The Japan Rush to Extragalactic Astronomy.
- 1.4 The Impact of New Detectors and Instruments1.5 Toward a Panchromatic View of Galaxies; 1.5.1 The Ultraviolet Window; 1.5.2 The Infrared Window; 1.5.3 The X-ray Window; 1.6 The Impact of Computing Power on Galaxy Modeling and Theoretical Understanding; 1.7 What Has Changed and What Is Changing in Galaxies Investigation?; 1.8 To Summarize; References; 2 The Milky Way and the Local Group; 2.1 Chapter Overview; 2.2 Milky Way: One of Many; 2.3 The Milky Way Dynamics and the Connection with Spirals; 2.3.1 Background; 2.3.2 Kapteyn's Universe; 2.3.3 Jan Hendrik Oort and Stellar Dynamics.
- 2.3.4 Properties and Evolution of the Velocity Ellipsoid2.3.5 Stellar Orbits; 2.3.6 Stability; 2.3.7 Determinations of Kinematic Properties; 2.3.8 Spiral Galaxies; 2.4 Milky Way: Stellar Population and the Interstellar Medium; 2.4.1 Early Revision of the Two Population Concept; 2.4.1.1 Towards a Galaxy Formation Picture; 2.4.2 Population II Complexity: The Discovery of the Thick Disk; 2.4.3 From Early Times to the Current View of the Milky Way; 2.4.3.1 Setting the Clocks: Age Determination; 2.4.3.2 Thin and Thick Disks, or the Disk?; 2.4.3.3 The Open Clusters as Disk Tracers; 2.4.3.4 The Halo.
- 2.4.3.5 The Globular Cluster Revolution2.4.3.6 The Bulge; 2.5 Milky Way: The Dust Component; 2.6 Beyond the Milky Way; 2.6.1 The Distance Scale Debate; 2.6.2 Primary Indicators; 2.6.2.1 Cepheids; 2.6.2.2 RR Lyrae Variables; 2.6.2.3 Tip of the Red Giant Branch Stars: The TRGB Method; 2.6.2.4 Advantages, Disadvantages and Caveats; 2.6.2.5 Crowding and Confusion; 2.6.3 Secondary Distance Indicators; 2.6.3.1 The Tully-Fisher Relation; 2.6.3.2 Type Ia Supernovæ; 2.7 The Companions of the Milky Way: The Local Group; 2.7.1 Andromeda; 2.7.2 The Dwarf Galaxy Population in the Local Group.
- 2.8 Tracing the Milky Way and the Local Group Co-evolution2.9 Just Outside the Local Group; 2.10 How Far Did We Go in Understanding the Milky Way and Nearby Universe; 2.11 To Summarize; References; 3 Family Traits of Galaxies: From the Tuning Fork to a Physical Classification in a Multi-Wavelength Context; 3.1 Chapter Overview; 3.2 The Varieties of Spiral Galaxies; 3.2.1 Discriminant Parameters in a Multi-Wavelength Context; 3.3 Filling the Abyss Between Ellipticals and Spirals: the S0 problem; 3.4 The Family of Early-Type Galaxies; 3.4.1 Learning from (Deep) Imaging the Outskirts of Galaxies.
