Barred Galaxies and Circumnuclear Activity: Proceedings of the NOBEL SYMPOSIUM 98 Held at Stockholm Observatory, Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, 30 November – 3 December 1995

Some historical remarks on Bertil Lindblad's work on galactic dynamics....Pages 1-5
Formation and evolution mechanisms of barred spiral galaxies....Pages 7-18
Orbits in barred galaxies....Pages 19-41
Secular evolution in barred galaxies....Pages 43-58
The fate of barred galaxies in interacting and merging systems....Pages 59-66
H i in barred spirals....Pages 67-74
H i Observations of a sample of barred spirals....Pages 75-82
Hydrodynamical simulations of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365....Pages 83-90
Evolution of galaxies along the Hubble sequence....Pages 91-100
Rings, lenses, nuclear bars: the fundamental role of gas....Pages 101-123
The barred galaxy NGC 1530....Pages 125-132
A circumnuclear molecular torus in NGC 1365....Pages 133-140
Dynamics of inner galactic disks: The striking case of M 100....Pages 141-150
Dynamical substructures in two nearby galaxy nuclei....Pages 151-156
The spheroidal component of Seyfert galaxies....Pages 157-164
The pattern speed of the Galactic bulge....Pages 165-174
The central Parsec of the Milky Way: Star formation and central dark mass....Pages 175-184
Radio continuum and molecular gas in the Galactic Center....Pages 185-192
The galactic center dynamics....Pages 193-200
Observational evidence for the AGN paradigm....Pages 201-222
Bar triggered nuclear activity and the anisotropic radiation fields of Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 223-232
Circumnuclear starbursts in barred galaxies....Pages 233-240
Circumnuclear activity....Pages 241-262
Outflows from the nearest barred galaxies....Pages 263-281
The nuclear high excitation outflow cone in NGC 1365....Pages 283-291
Hubble Space Telescope observations of the centers of elliptical galaxies....Pages 293-306