New Extragalactic Perspectives in the New South Africa: Proceedings of the International Conference on “Cold Dust and Galaxy Morphology” held in Johannesburg, South Africa, January 22–26, 1996

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Changing Perceptions of the Morphology and Dust Content in Galaxies....Pages 1-20
How Cold Could Galaxies Be?....Pages 21-28
Temperature Fluctuations and Very Cold Dust....Pages 29-33
The Interstellar Medium as Observed by COBE....Pages 34-49
Molecular Gas in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 50-60
Cold Dust Signatures on SNR Gamma Ray Spectra....Pages 61-64
Optical and Infrared Images of Galaxies: What’s to be Learned?....Pages 65-83
Optical, IR, and HI Observations of a Large Complete Cluster Sample....Pages 84-97
The Relationship Between Near IR Extinction and CO Emission....Pages 98-104
Extinction and Dust Column Density in Spiral Disks from FIR vs. UV-Optical Comparison....Pages 105-108
The Effects of Supergiants on the Infrared Light Distribution in Galaxies....Pages 109-112
Reflections at the Registration Desk: Ray White....Pages 113-113
Distribution and Content of Dust in Overlapping Galaxy Systems....Pages 114-117
Evolution and Emission of Cold, Warm and Hot Dust Populations in Diffuse and Molecular Clouds....Pages 118-134
Organics and Ices in Galactic Dust....Pages 135-142
Studies of NIR Dust Absorption Features in the Nuclei of Active and IRAS Galaxies....Pages 143-150
Tiny Grains and Large Molecules in the Milky Way and Other Galaxies....Pages 151-154
The Role of UV Observations in Understanding Dust and Its Morphology....Pages 155-158
Studies of Interstellar Dust and Gas with the Far Ultraviolet Cameras and Far Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph Space Shuttle Investigations....Pages 159-169
High Spatial Resolution 50 and 100 Micron KAO Observations of Infrared-Bright Galaxies....Pages 170-177
Infrared Photometry and Dust Absorption in Highly Inclined Spiral Galaxies....Pages 178-182
The Nature of Interstellar Dust in Local Group Galaxies from Observations of Extinction and Polarization....Pages 183-186
Structure in the Distribution of the Dust and Its Impact on Extragalactic Studies....Pages 187-194
Determination of the 3D Dust Distribution in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 195-202
A 3D Dust Model for the Sombrero Galaxy....Pages 203-206
Doubling of the Infrared Flux from NGC 1068: A Circumnuclear Dust Torus?....Pages 207-210
Resolving the Faint Galaxy Excess with HST: Results from the Medium Deep Survey....Pages 211-226
Spiral Structure in Galaxies: Competition and Cooperation of Gas and Stars....Pages 227-242
Color Gradients in M99: Stellar Populations or Dust?....Pages 243-250
Amplitude and Shape of Spiral Arms in K’....Pages 251-254
The Bulge/Disk Connection in Late-Type Spirals....Pages 255-270
Dust in Starburst Galaxies: From the Ultraviolet to the Near Infrared....Pages 271-274
Near-Infrared Surface Photometry of Barred Spiral Galaxies....Pages 275-282
Barred Galaxies in the Near-IR: Observations and Dynamical Implications....Pages 283-286
Morphology and Dynamics of a Few Giant Galaxies with Low Surface Brightness Disks....Pages 287-290
Secular Evolution of Galaxy Morphologies....Pages 291-300
Dusty Disks and the Structure of Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 301-308
Dust and Gas in Local Group Galaxies....Pages 309-324
The Nuclear Regions of M31, M32, and M33 Imaged by HST....Pages 325-328
Gas and Dust in Normal and Active Galaxies....Pages 329-344
MM Observations of IRAS Galaxies: Dust Properties, Luminosity Functions and Contributions to the Sub-MM Background....Pages 345-348
Mapping the Cold Dust in Edge-On Galaxies at 1.2 mm Wavelength....Pages 349-352
Internal Absorption in Spiral Galaxies Using Four Colours....Pages 353-356
Dust in Galaxies....Pages 357-372
Search for Cold Molecular Gas....Pages 373-387
Galactic Structure and Morphology of the Milky Way from the TMGS....Pages 388-395
Unveiling Large-Scale Structures Behind the Milky Way....Pages 396-399
The Distribution of Dust and Gas in Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 400-407
The Ionized Gas in Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 408-415
HST Imaging of the Dust in Kinematically Distinct Core Ellipticals....Pages 416-421
Dust and Gas in the Outer Parts of Galaxies....Pages 422-434
Dust Spectra of the Milky Way: Primordial Molecular Hydrogen and Helium in the Outer Galaxy....Pages 435-438
Fundamental Aspects of the ISM Fractality....Pages 439-446
The DM-HI Connection....Pages 447-450
Very Cold Gas and Dark Matter....Pages 451-466
Constraints on the Surface Density of Gas in Outer Galaxy Disks from Stability Analyses....Pages 467-479
The Changing Circumstellar Environment of Young Stars....Pages 480-484
Interstellar Dust in the Solar System....Pages 485-488
Pre-Stellar Cores and the Initial Conditions for Star Formation....Pages 489-492
Dust and Morphology of High Redshift Radio Galaxies: Clues from Scattering....Pages 493-500
Dust Obscured Quasars....Pages 501-504
The Opacity of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies and Their Contribution to Quasar Absorption....Pages 505-508
The Morphology of Massive, Gas-Rich Low Surface Brightness Galaxies....Pages 509-512
38 Micron Images of Galaxies: The Infrared Luminosity....Pages 513-520
Dust in Early-Type Galaxies: New Results on the Wavelength Dependence of the Extinction....Pages 521-522
New Radiative Transfer Models of Disc Galaxies and the Scale-Length Test for Dust Diagnostics....Pages 523-524
The Distribution of Cold Dust within the Galaxy....Pages 525-527
Detection of Extended Dust in a Radio-Quiet Galaxy at Redshift 2.38....Pages 528-529
Extinction in the Direction of the End-of-Bar Star Formation Region....Pages 530-531
Sampling the Bar Population....Pages 532-533
Chasing Shadows in the TMGS....Pages 534-535
Imaging the Inner Galaxy....Pages 536-538
Fabry-Perot Imaging of Dust Grain Processing in M82....Pages 539-541
The HI Content of a Complete Sample of SA Galaxies....Pages 542-543
Massive Galactic Halos and Dark Matter: Unusua Properties of Neutrinos in the De Sitter Universe....Pages 544-546
Dust in A Radio Galaxy At Z=4.25....Pages 547-548
Voyager Observations of Dust Scattered Starlig....Pages 549-551
Dust and Stars in the Nuclear Region of M51....Pages 552-553
Gaseous and Stellar Responses to Spiral Perturbations Detected in the NIR....Pages 554-555
Attenuation and Stellar Population Gradients in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 556-558
FIR and CII Emissions in NGC6946....Pages 559-560
The Composition of Interstellar Dust....Pages 561-563
Dust in Radio Galaxies: Clues to Activity....Pages 564-565
Defining Spiral Structure in the Flocculent Galaxy NGC 5055....Pages 566-567
Where does Dust Absorb most Light?....Pages 568-569
On the Angular-Momentum Transport in Spiral and Barred Galaxies....Pages 570-572
Dust, Stars and Nuclear Activity in the Centres of SBC Galaxies....Pages 573-575
The Polarizing Properties of Dust in NGC 5128....Pages 576-577
Astronomy at the University of the Witwatersrand....Pages 578-584
Eyes to the Future....Pages 585-611
Each Chairperson Reflects on Their Session.......Pages 612-626
The Riddle…....Pages 626-626
‘Where Dust is Stars’....Pages 627-628
Back Matter....Pages 629-653