Overview
- Contains 20 review articles and over 75 invited papers by top scientists
- Focus on longevity of the bar phenomenon, the duty cycle of bars, bars at high redshift, the secular evolution of galaxies, galaxy disks as open systems...and much more
- Includes unique historical perspectives by Dr. Allan Sandage and a 90-minute panel discussion, transcribed from tape
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 319)
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THE EDITORS: DAVID L. BLOCK AND KENNETH C. FREEMAN (SOC CO-CHAIRS), IVANIO PUERARI, ROBERT GROESS AND LIZ K. BLOCK 1. Harvard College Observatory, 1958 The past century has truly brought about an explosive period of growth and discovery for the physical sciences as a whole, and for astronomy in particular. Galaxy morphology has reached a renaissance . . The year: 1958. The date: October 1. The venue: Harvard College Observatory. The lecturer: Walter Baade. With amazing foresight, Baade penned these words: "Young stars, supergiants and so on, make a terrific splash - lots of light. The total mass of these can be very small compared to the total mass of the system". Dr Layzer then asked the key question: " . . . the discussion raises the point of what this classification would look like if you were to ignore completely all the Population I, and just focus attention on the Population II . . . " We stand on the shoulders of giants. The great observer E. E. Barnard, in his pioneering efforts to photograph the Milky Way, devoted the major part of his life to identifying and numbering dusty "holes" and dust lanes in our Milky Way. No one could have dreamt that the pervasiveness of these cosmic dust masks (not only in our Galaxy but also in galaxies at high redshift) is so great, that their "penetration" is truly one of the pioneering challenges from both space-borne telescopes and from the ground.
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Table of contents (85 papers)
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust
Book Subtitle: The Hubble Tuning Fork strikes a New Note
Editors: David L. Block, Ivânio Puerari, Kenneth C. Freeman, Robert Groess, Elizabeth K. Block
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2862-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2861-8Published: 29 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-7085-5Published: 04 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2862-5Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 881
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Particle and Nuclear Physics