Comets to Cosmology: Proceedings of the Third IRAS Conference Held at Queen Mary College, University of London July 6–10, 1987

The impact of IRAS on asteroidal science....Pages 3-18
Iras observations of asteroids....Pages 19-26
Models for infrared emission from zodiacal dust....Pages 27-39
Separating the solar system and galactic contributions to the diffuse infrared background....Pages 40-43
Zodiacal dust properties as deduced by inversion of iras observations....Pages 44-47
The infrared spectrum of Comet P/Halley....Pages 48-59
Halley’s Comet....Pages 60-65
The albedo of large refractory particles from p/Tempel 2....Pages 66-72
Infrared studies of solar system bodies....Pages 73-77
The large scale distribution of infrared radiation in our Galaxy....Pages 81-88
Large scale structure of dust and gas in the Galaxy....Pages 89-96
Model for the galactic infrared emission....Pages 97-104
The nature of the Galactic bulge....Pages 105-108
A procedure for distinguishing thermal and synchrotron components of the radio continuum emission of the Galactic disc....Pages 109-112
Infrared cirrus....Pages 113-121
Infrared emission from the solar neighborhood....Pages 122-129
A post-iras interstellar dust model....Pages 130-133
The excitation of the infrared emission from visual reflection nebulae....Pages 134-139
Extended infrared emission near stars....Pages 140-143
Beyond the asymptotic giant branch....Pages 144-147
The study of star formation with IRAS....Pages 148-158
The luminosity functions of taurus and chamaeleon....Pages 159-163
Infrared spectra of young stellar objects....Pages 164-170
High luminosity galaxies in the IRAS survey....Pages 172-176
Starbursts: Nature and environment....Pages 177-185
Star formation in normal galaxies....Pages 186-193
The association between stellar bars and enhanced activity in the central kiloparsec of spiral galaxies....Pages 194-197
Global properties of star formation in spiral galaxies....Pages 198-201
Radio and optical studies of a complete sample of IRAS galaxies....Pages 202-205
Optical and far infrared properties of a 60µm flux limited sample of IRAS galaxies....Pages 206-209
IRAS observations of normal galaxies: The UGC redshift sample....Pages 210-212
Separation of nuclear and disk components in IRAS observations of spiral galaxies....Pages 213-216
A post IRAS view of active galaxies....Pages 217-229
Far infrared emission of type 2 seyferts....Pages 230-233
Starbursts in interacting galaxies....Pages 234-245
The role of bars in starburst galaxies....Pages 246-252
Are starbursts the result of the fine tuning of dynamical timescales?....Pages 253-256
IRAS observations of an optical sample of interacting galaxies....Pages 257-261
Cosmological background radiation in the infrared....Pages 265-278
Rocket observation of the diffuse infrared radiation....Pages 279-288
Spectrum of the cosmic microwave background....Pages 289-296
From star formation to galaxy formation....Pages 297-311
Galaxies as tracers of the mass distribution....Pages 312-319
Young galaxies....Pages 320-325
Infrared and optical observations of distant radio galaxies....Pages 326-339
A very deep IRAS survey at the North Ecliptic Pole....Pages 340-343
Cosmological evolution of starburst galaxies and IRAS counts at 60 µm ....Pages 344-347
The IRAS dipole....Pages 348-360
A redshift survey of IRAS galaxies....Pages 361-369
The impact of infrared astronomy on the distance scale....Pages 370-383
Conference summary....Pages 385-391