Kinematics, Dynamics and Structure of the Milky Way: Proceedings of a Workshop on “The Milky Way” Held in Vancouver, Canada, May 17–19, 1982

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
New Trends in Milky Way Research....Pages 1-7
Magnetic Field Strength Measurements in Two Types of Region....Pages 9-9
A Photometric Study of the Lower Main Sequences of the Hyades and the Field Stars....Pages 11-13
The Coordination of Space and Ground-Based Parallax Programs for Improvement of the Stellar Luminosity Function....Pages 15-19
Changes in Interstellar Atomic Abundances from the Galactic Plane to the Halo....Pages 21-30
Gamma Radiation as a Tracer of the Local Interstellar Gas....Pages 31-41
The Oort Comet Halo and Giant Molecular Clouds....Pages 43-45
On the Local Standard of Rest....Pages 47-52
On the Analysis of Motions Perpendicular to the Galactic Plane....Pages 53-54
Local Galactic Structure and Velocity Field....Pages 55-58
On the Determination of R o ....Pages 59-66
The Velocity Fields of Gas and Stars within Five KPC of the Sun....Pages 67-72
A Comparison of the Velocity Fields of Young Stellar Objects and of Sharpless H II Regions....Pages 73-75
Determination of AR ⊙ ....Pages 77-79
Velocity Distribution of Stars and Relaxation in the Galactic Disk....Pages 81-90
The Large-Scale Structure of Atomic Hydrogen....Pages 91-96
Large-Scale Structure of HI in the Outer Galaxy....Pages 97-104
More HI Shells and Supershells or a New Explanation of “Noncircular Motions” in the Galaxy....Pages 105-108
Low Latitude Absorption Spectra....Pages 109-114
The Distribution of Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy....Pages 115-125
Kinematics of Molecular Clouds: Evidence for Agglomeration in Spiral Arms....Pages 127-133
 13 CO in the Galactic Plane: The Cloud-To-Cloud Velocity Dispersion in the Inner Galaxy....Pages 135-142
How Confidently do We Know the CO Rotation Curve of the Outer Galaxy?....Pages 143-150
The Distribution of HII Regions in the Outer Galaxy....Pages 151-158
CO(J=2-1) Observations of Galactic HII-Regions....Pages 159-163
Distribution of CO in the Southern Milky Way....Pages 165-170
Galactic Emission of OH at 1720 MHz as a Tracer of Spiral Arms....Pages 171-178
Galactic HII Regions, Anomalous 1720 MHz OH Clouds and Spiral Structure in the Galaxy....Pages 179-182
The Large Scale Dust Distribution in the Inner Galaxy....Pages 183-195
Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Fields in the Galaxy....Pages 197-207
The Distribution of Stars in the Galaxy....Pages 209-216
Optical Spiral Structure between 1 = 30° and 70°....Pages 217-222
Cos-B Gamma-Ray Measurements and the Large-Scale Distribution of Interstellar Matter....Pages 223-231
The Rotation Curve of the Galaxy....Pages 233-247
A Model for the Galaxy with Rising Rotational Velocity....Pages 249-257
Radial Distribution of Atomic and Molecular Hydrogen from Propagating Star Formation....Pages 259-263
Cloud-Particle Galactic Gas Dynamics and Star Formation....Pages 265-276
Spiral Modes and the Milky Way....Pages 277-281
A Modal Approach to Spiral Structure: Two Examples....Pages 283-287
A Theory of Bending Waves with Applications to Disk Galaxies....Pages 289-302
On Corotating High-Z HI....Pages 303-313
The Mount Wilson Halo Mapping Project....Pages 315-324
Orbital and Chemical Properties of Globular Clusters and Halo Stars....Pages 325-331
Comments on the Galactic Halo....Pages 333-334
Globular Clusters and the Distance to the Galactic Centre....Pages 335-341
Globular Clusters and the Potential Well of the Galaxy....Pages 343-348
Masses and Mystery in the Local Group....Pages 349-363
Carbon Stars as a Constraint on Models of the Magellanic Stream and as a Kinematical Probe of the Large Magellanic Cloud....Pages 365-366
Molecular Clouds in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 367-377
NGC 3200: Is This What Our Galaxy is Like?....Pages 379-384
Back Matter....Pages 385-396