The Evolution of Galaxies
by Vilchez, Jose M.; Stasinska, Grazyna; Perez, EnriqueFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Kluwer Academic Pub
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Summary
Galaxies have a history. This has become clear from recent sky surveys, which have shown that distant galaxies, formed early in the life of the Universe, differ from the nearby ones. New observational windows at ultraviolet, infrared and millimetric wavelengths (provided by ROSAT, IRAM, IUE, IRAS, ISO) have revealed that galaxies contain a wealth of components: very hot gas, atomic hydrogen, molecules, dust, dark matter. A significant advance is expected due to new instruments (VLT, FIRST, XMM) which will allow one to explore the most distant Universe. Three Euroconferences have been planned to punctuate this new epoch in galactic research, bringing together specialists in various fields of Astronomy. The first, held in Granada (Spain) in May 2000, addressed the observational clues. The second will take place in October 2001 in St Denis de la Réunion (France) and will review the basic building blocks and small-scale processes in galaxy evolution. The third will take place in July 2002 in Kiel (Germany) and will be devoted to the overall modelling of galaxy evolution. This book contains the proceedings of the first conference. It is recommended to researchers and PhD students in Astrophysics.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 1 |
| Introduction | |
| Challenging Observations with the New Generation of Astronomical Facilities | p. 7 |
| The Best Observables from the Point of View of a Model Maker | p. 17 |
| The Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium | |
| Molecular Gas in Galaxies | p. 29 |
| The Structure of Molecular Clouds and Their Global Emission Properties | p. 39 |
| Warm and Hot Gaseous Outflows in Dwarf Galaxies | p. 51 |
| ISOCAM Observations of a Galaxy Merging Sequence | p. 55 |
| The [CII] and [OI] Emission Lines in NGC 6946 and NGC 1313 | p. 59 |
| The Infrared Spectral Energy Distribution of Normal Star-Forming Galaxies | p. 63 |
| Environmental Effects in Galaxies: Molecular GAs and Nuclear Activity | p. 67 |
| Pressure and Density Gradients in H[subscript II] Regions | p. 71 |
| Submillimeter CI and CO lines in Galaxies | p. 75 |
| Modelling the Extinction Properties of Galaxies | p. 79 |
| Density Structure of the Giant H[subscript II] Region NGC 2363 | p. 83 |
| What is the Behavior of the ISM in the SMC? | p. 87 |
| Tracking Down the Processes that Shape the ISM: The Case of the Supergiant Shell in IC 2574 | p. 91 |
| CO-Observations of Post-Starburst Galaxies | p. 95 |
| IRS: The Infrared Spectrograph on SIRTF | p. 97 |
| A Spectral Diagnostic for Density-Bounded H[subscript II] Regions | p. 99 |
| Mid-Infrared Spectral Decomposition Between Starbursts and AGNs | p. 101 |
| Mid-Infrared Observations of NGC 1068 with ISOCAM | p. 103 |
| Dust in the Dwarf Galaxy NGC 1569: Evidence for an Enhancement of Small Grains | p. 105 |
| The Hi Morphology of Low-Mass Dwarf Galaxies | p. 107 |
| Expanding Ionized Shells around Star Forming Regions in the Most Metal-Poor Blue Compact Galaxies | p. 109 |
| Chemodynamical Mixing Cycles in Dwarf Galaxies | p. 111 |
| Multiwalength Studies of Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds | p. 113 |
| The Mid-Infrared Properties of Nearby Spiral Galaxies | p. 115 |
| Evolution of the X-ray Luminosity and Metallicity of Starburst Blown Superbubbles | p. 117 |
| Hot Gas in Starburst Galaxies - X-rays from NGC 2903 and NGC 4569 | p. 119 |
| The Effect of Violent Star Formation on the State of the Molecular Gas in M 82 | p. 121 |
| The Interstellar Medium and the Intergalactic Medium: Discussion of Session One | p. 125 |
| Element Abundancies in Galaxies | |
| From Stellar Spectra to Abundances | p. 137 |
| Chemical Abundances in our Galaxy and Other Galaxies Derived from H[subscript II] Regions | p. 147 |
| Abundance Anomalies in RGB Stars as Probes of Galactic Chemical Evolution | p. 157 |
| The First Stars: Evolution and Nucleosynthesis | p. 161 |
| Chemical Evidence for Evolution of Galaxies | p. 165 |
| On the Cosmic Origins of Carbon and Nitrogen | p. 169 |
| Abundances in Ellipticals Traced by Globular Clusters | p. 173 |
| Abundance Analysis in the Near IR: Stellar Clusters and Galaxies | p. 177 |
| On Ionisation Effects and Abundance Ratios in Damped Lyman-[alpha] Systems | p. 183 |
| Can Giant H[subscript II] Regions Serve as Abundance Indicators at High Metallicities? | p. 189 |
| Element Abundance Patterns of Metal-Poor Halo Stars | p. 193 |
| Chemical Evolution Models of Local dSph Galaxies | p. 195 |
| Empirical Abundance Determination for Ionized Nebulae | p. 197 |
| PNe Abundances: Galactic Bulge Versus the Disc | p. 199 |
| Oxygen Abundance Distribution in a New Well-Selected Sample of Blue Compact Galaxies | p. 201 |
| Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds | p. 203 |
| Chemical Evolution of Bulges | p. 205 |
| [superscript 3]He and [superscript 7]Li in Low- and Intermediate Mass Stars | p. 207 |
| Abundance Ratios in Hierarchical Galaxy Formation | p. 209 |
| Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Halo | p. 211 |
| Abundances in Galaxies: Discussion of Session Two | p. 213 |
| Evolution of Stellar Populations | |
| Stellar Populations in Local and Distant Galaxies | p. 221 |
| Star Formation Histories of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies | p. 231 |
| The Impact of Chemical Evolution on the Observable Properties of Stellar Populations | p. 241 |
| Mid Infrared Colors of Early Type Galaxies | p. 251 |
| The Stellar Populations of the Milky Way Satellites: The Early Universe through the Color-Magnitude Diagram | p. 255 |
| Multiwavelength Analysis of Active Star Forming Regions: The Case of NGC 604 | p. 259 |
| Properties of the Z=2.73 Galaxy, MS1512-cB58 | p. 263 |
| NIR Census of the Stellar Content of Nearby Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies with HST | p. 267 |
| White Dwarfs as Tracers of Galactic Evolution | p. 273 |
| Wolf-Rayet Stellar Populations in the Most Metal-Deficient Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies | p. 277 |
| Are there any Young Galaxies in Our Local Universe? | p. 281 |
| The Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies | p. 287 |
| Massive Star Populations and Chemical Abundances from New Models with Rotation | p. 291 |
| Strong Balmer Lines in Old Ellipticals | p. 295 |
| The IMF of Starbursts | p. 299 |
| The Physical Relation between Age and Metallicity in Galaxies | p. 305 |
| The Star Formation Histories of Blue Compact Galaxies: Where are the GAPs? | p. 309 |
| Structure and Evolution of the Inner Milky Way Galaxy: Results from ISOGAL | p. 313 |
| IZw 18: Ideal Laboratory for the Study of the Evolution of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies | p. 317 |
| The Near-IR Calcium Triplet: Empirical Calibration and Stellar Populations Models | p. 319 |
| Evolutionary Synthesis Models: Gamma-ray Emission | p. 321 |
| H-band Observation of the Stellar Population in Seyfert Galaxies | p. 323 |
| Ultraviolet Observations of Galaxies | p. 325 |
| Quantitative Properties of the Local Star-Forming Galaxies | p. 327 |
| Ultra-Deep Near Infrared Surface Photometry of Edge-on Disk Galaxies | p. 329 |
| Old Stellar Populations in Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies | p. 331 |
| Age Metallicity Relation in the LMC | p. 333 |
| Stellar Ages and Metallicities Along the Bars of Barred Spirals | p. 335 |
| Star-Formation in Ring Galaxies: Multi-Band Observations | p. 339 |
| Do Luminous Elliptical Galaxies Have Young Disks? | p. 341 |
| Age Constraints for Blue LSBGs | p. 343 |
| Photometrical Constraints on the Age of IZw18 | p. 345 |
| Circumnuclear Ring of the Starburst Galaxy NGC 253. An Infrared View | p. 347 |
| The Simultaneous Multiple Constraints of the IMF and SFR History in Star Formation Complexes | p. 349 |
| The [lambda]4000A Break in Elliptical Galaxies | p. 351 |
| Stellar Populations in BL Lac Type Objects | p. 353 |
| Stellar Populations in Nuclei and Bulges of Early-Type Disk Galaxies: Ages and Magnesium-to-Iron Ratios | p. 355 |
| Optical/Near-IR Colors of HII Galaxies: Super Stellar Clusters and the Underlying Galaxy | p. 357 |
| The origin of the CMR in Virgo | p. 359 |
| The Evolution of Stellar Populations: Discussion of Session Three | p. 361 |
| Structure, Dynamics and Environment of Galaxies | |
| The Role of Mergers in Galaxy Evolution | p. 371 |
| Observational Constraints on the Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies | p. 383 |
| Ram Pressure Stripping and Galaxy Orbits | p. 393 |
| Ionizing the Diffuse Interstellar Medium in Late-Type Galaxies | p. 397 |
| The History of Star Formation in Normal Late-Type Galaxies | p. 401 |
| The Formation of Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in Interacting Systems: The Case of Arp 245 (NGC 2992/93) | p. 405 |
| Kinematics of Gas and Stars in Gas-Rich Early-Type Galaxies | p. 409 |
| ULIRGs: Tidal-induced Star Formation and Implications for SCUBA Sources | p. 413 |
| Evolution of Galaxy Morphologies in Clusters | p. 417 |
| NIR Properties of Isolated Spirals With and Without an AGN | p. 421 |
| Searching for Tidal Tails in Galactic Dwarf Spheroidal Satellites | p. 425 |
| The Fundamental Properties of Early-Type Galaxies in the Coma Cluster | p. 429 |
| Kinematics of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies | p. 433 |
| The Ages of Galactic Bulges in the Local Universe | p. 437 |
| On the Origin of the Luminosity - Metallicity Relation for Late-Type Galaxies: Spirals to Irregulars Transition | p. 441 |
| The Role of External Trigger for SF in Blue Compact Galaxies Implications from Statistics of Companion Galaxies | p. 445 |
| An Empirical Picture for the Evolution of Galaxies Outside of Clusters | p. 449 |
| Spectrophotometric Observations of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: MKN 370, MKN 600 and MKN 36 | p. 453 |
| 2D Kinematics of Nuclear Bars | p. 455 |
| NGC 4340: Double Bar + Fossil Nuclear Ring | p. 457 |
| Integral Field Spectroscopy of Active Galaxies | p. 459 |
| Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of BCDS: MRK 370 | p. 461 |
| Ram Pressure Stripping of Dwarf Satellites in Disc Galaxies | p. 463 |
| On the Bulge-to-Disk Size Ratio for Spiral Galaxies | p. 465 |
| A K-Band [mu]0-Log h Relation for Early-Type Spiral Galaxy Disks | p. 467 |
| Sub-KPC Stellar Kinematics of AGN as Revealed by Isaac (VLT/ANTU) Spectroscopy | p. 469 |
| The Kinematics of the LMC from its Carbon Stars | p. 471 |
| Clues to the Formation and Evolution of Tidal Dwarf Galaxies | p. 473 |
| Structural Parameters and Morphology of a Subsample of BCGS from the First and Second Byurakan Surveys | p. 475 |
| Properties of Galaxies with Universal Density Profile | p. 477 |
| Galaxy Formation Clues from Globular Cluster Systems: Preliminary Results for Coma | p. 479 |
| Two Physical Laws for Elliptical Galaxies: Photometrical Consequences | p. 481 |
| Observations of Near-Infrared Selected LSB Galaxies | p. 483 |
| Looking for Intermediate Age Populations in Merger Remnant Galaxies: The Case of NGC 7252 | p. 485 |
| Cometary Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: Clues to Dwarf Galaxy Evolution? | p. 487 |
| Radial Redistribution of Gas Connected to a Distant Galaxy versus Galaxy Encounter | p. 489 |
| Star Formation and Feedback Processes in Numerical Simulations: Outflows, Galactic Winds and the Fate of Dwarf Galaxies | p. 491 |
| Modeling Gas and Stellar Kinematics in Disc Galaxies | p. 493 |
| Genes and Galaxies | p. 495 |
| Galaxy Recycling: The First Sample of TDG Candidates | p. 497 |
| The Ionized Intergalactic Gas: Baryonic Dark Matter | p. 499 |
| Structure, Dynamics and Environment of Galaxies: Discussion of Session Four | p. 501 |
| Evolution with Redshift | |
| The Masses of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts | p. 507 |
| Metals at High Redshifts | p. 517 |
| ISO Observations of Faint Radio Sources | p. 527 |
| Is the Deficit of Z ] 1 Field Ellipticals Real? | p. 531 |
| High Z Evolution of Optically and IR-Selected Galaxies | p. 535 |
| The Fors Deep Field | p. 539 |
| A Proto-Cluster around a Radio Galaxy at Redshift 2.16 | p. 543 |
| Properties of High-Z Galaxies Seen Through Lensing Clusters | p. 547 |
| The Evolution and Space Density of Damped Lyman-[alpha] Galaxies | p. 551 |
| Metals in the Intergalactic Medium | p. 555 |
| Morphological Classifications of High Redshift Galaxies: GASPHOT: A Tool for Galaxy Automated Surface PHOTometry | p. 561 |
| Galaxy Evolution: The ISOCAM View | p. 565 |
| Gas Metallicities and Early Evolution of Distant Radio Galaxies | p. 571 |
| The Evolution of the Star-Formation Rate in Galaxies | p. 575 |
| Detection Limits for the Cosmos Survey: K Corrections for B, R, K Bands | p. 577 |
| Field Galaxy Evolution with the Munics Survey | p. 579 |
| The Evolution of the Luminosity Function of Field Galaxies from Z = 1 to Z = 0 | p. 581 |
| The H[alpha] SFR of the Universe at Z = 0.24 and Z = 0.4 | p. 583 |
| The UCM-CIDA-Yale Survey: Looking for the Current Star-Forming Galaxies | p. 585 |
| Evolution of Galaxies in Poor Clusters | p. 587 |
| Modelling the Extinction Properties of Galaxies | p. 589 |
| Massive Star Formation in Luminous Compact Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts | p. 593 |
| Global Star Formation History in Rich Cluster Cores | p. 597 |
| The CADIS Picture of Galaxy Evolution in the Range 0 [ z 1 | p. 599 |
| Applications of Evolutionary Synthesis Models: From Nearby to High-Z Galaxies | p. 601 |
| Are the Submillimeter and X-Ray Backgrounds Related Phenomena? | p. 603 |
| The L-[sigma] relation in HII Galaxies: Cosmological Relevance | p. 605 |
| Number Counts and Colors of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South | p. 607 |
| The Properties of High Redshift Galaxies | p. 609 |
| Summary and Future Prospects | |
| The Evolution of Galaxies: Unsolved Problems and Future Prospects | p. 621 |
| List of Participants | p. 631 |
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