Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Names and addresses of participants......Page 11
Conference photograph......Page 16
Spiral waves in Saturn's rings......Page 19
Structure of the Uranian rings......Page 35
Planetary rings: theory......Page 37
Simulations of light scattering in planetary rings......Page 43
Accretion discs around young stellar objects and the proto-Sun......Page 45
The [GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA] Pictoris disc: a planetary rather than a protoplanetary one......Page 61
Optical polarimetry and thermal imaging of the disc around [GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA] Pictoris......Page 63
Observations of discs around protostars and young stars......Page 67
VLA observations of ammonia toward molecular outflow sources......Page 79
Derivation of the physical properties of molecular discs by an MEM method......Page 83
Masers associated with discs around young stars......Page 85
The nature of polarisation discs around young stars......Page 87
The correlation between the main parameters of the interstellar gas (including Salpeter's spectrum of masses) as a result of the development of turbulent Rossby waves......Page 89
Discs in cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries......Page 91
A disc instability model for soft X-ray transients containing black holes......Page 97
X-ray variability from the accretion disc of NGC 5548......Page 99
Viscously heated coronae and winds around accretion discs......Page 101
Optical emission line profiles of symbiotic stars......Page 103
The effect of formation of Fell in winds confined to discs for luminous stars......Page 105
Observational evidence for accretion discs in active galactic nuclei......Page 107
The fuelling of active galactic nuclei by non-axisymmetric instabilities......Page 117
The circum-nuclear disc in the Galactic centre......Page 119
Non-axisymmetric instabilities in thin self-gravitating differentially rotating gaseous discs......Page 121
Non-linear evolution of non-axisymmetric perturbations in thin self-gravitating gaseous discs......Page 133
Eccentric gravitational instabilities in nearly Keplerian discs......Page 137
Gravity mode instabilities in accretion tori......Page 139
The stability of viscous supersonic shear flows -- critical Reynolds numbers and their implications for accretion discs......Page 141
Asymptotic analysis of overstable convective modes of uniformly rotating stars......Page 143
Polytropic models in very rapid rotation......Page 145
Distribution and kinematics of gas in galaxy discs......Page 147
Are the smallest galaxies optically invisible?......Page 151
Can we understand the constancy of rotation curves?......Page 153
How well do we know the surface density of the Galactic disc?......Page 155
On the heating of the Galactic disc......Page 157
The bulge-disc interaction in galactic centres......Page 159
Dynamics of the large-scale disc in NGC 1068......Page 161
The flow of gas in barred galaxies......Page 163
The warped dust lane in A1029-459......Page 165
Structure and evolution of dissipative non-planar galactic discs......Page 167
Non-axisymmetric magnetic fields in turbulent gas discs......Page 169
Non-axisymmetric disturbances in galactic discs......Page 171
Spiral instabilities in N-body simulations......Page 173
Long-lived spiral waves in N-body simulations......Page 191
Overstable modes in stellar disc systems......Page 193
Galactic seismological approach to the spiral galaxy NGC 3198......Page 195
Characteristics of bars from 3-D simulations......Page 197
Spirals and bars in linear theory......Page 199
Stellar hydrodynamical solutions for Eddington discs......Page 201
Theory of gradient instabilities of the gaseous Galactic disc and rotating shallow water......Page 203
Stability criteria for gravitating discs......Page 217
Stability of two-component galactic discs......Page 227
The smoothed particle hydrodynamics of galactic discs......Page 229
Tidal triggering of active disc galaxies by rich clusters......Page 231
The formation of spiral arms in early stages of galaxy interaction......Page 233
Formation of leading spiral arms in retrograde galaxy encounters......Page 235
The influence of galaxy interactions on stellar bars......Page 237
Disc galaxies -- work in progress in Gothenburg......Page 239
Motion of a satellite in a disc potential......Page 241
Observer's summary......Page 243
Common processes and problems in disc dynamics......Page 249
Citation index......Page 257
Index of authors......Page 271
Subject index......Page 273