Spiral Galaxies in the Near-IR: Proceedings of the ESO/MPA Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 7–9 June 1995

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
When Do Near-IR Colors Help in Studying Stellar Populations?....Pages 3-12
Photometric and Spectrophotometric Models in the NIR....Pages 13-21
Stellar Libraries: Spectral Features in the Near-Infrared....Pages 22-31
New spectrophotometric population synthesis models of ellipticals and early type spirals....Pages 32-34
Infrared Colour Gradients in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 35-42
Colour Gradients in the Optical and Near-IR....Pages 43-47
Stellar Populations of Bulges and Disks: New Insights from Near-IR Colours....Pages 48-57
Determining the Contribution of Young Stars to Near Infrared Light....Pages 58-62
How Much Do Young Stars Contribute to the K-band Light?....Pages 63-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
The Brightest Stars in the Galactic Bulge....Pages 75-84
Imaging of Local Group Bulge Populations in the Near Infrared....Pages 85-94
Origin of Bulges....Pages 95-104
The Milky Way in the Near-IR, First Results of DENIS....Pages 105-107
HST Observations of the Ionizing Star Cluster NGC 595 in the Spiral Galaxy M33....Pages 108-109
Discovery of the Galactic Bar Population....Pages 110-112
Integrated Infrared Colors of Star Clusters in the Galaxy and M31....Pages 113-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Observational Evidence for a Compact Dark Mass at the Galactic Center....Pages 117-123
Applications of a Self-Consistent Model for the Galactic Bar....Pages 124-127
Towards a Three-Dimensional Model of the Galaxy....Pages 128-137
On the Deprojection of Axisymmetric and Triaxial Stellar Systems....Pages 138-146
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Near IR Observations and Dynamics of Barred Galaxies....Pages 147-156
Studying Galaxy Dynamics with IR Images....Pages 157-165
Dynamical Evolution of Disk Galaxies....Pages 166-173
Disk Dynamics Based on Near-IR Photometry....Pages 174-183
Measuring Spiral Arm Torques: M100 in K....Pages 184-185
Galaxy as Dynamical System with Accreting Halo....Pages 186-189
Near-Infrared Measurements of Kinematics in Luminous Galaxies....Pages 190-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Galaxies with the DENIS 2 Micron Survey: A Preliminary Report....Pages 195-199
How Good Is the Near-Infrared Tully-Fisher Relation?....Pages 200-209
Near Infrared Imaging of Late Type Virgo Cluster Galaxies....Pages 210-213
Near-IR Surface Photometry of 400 Late-type Galaxies....Pages 214-215
Nonaxisymmetric Structures in Stellar Disks....Pages 216-225
Azimuthal Color Gradients in M99....Pages 226-232
Spiral Disk Asymmetries and Other Evidence of Accretion in Nearby Galaxies....Pages 233-234
Mass Models from Near-Infrared Surface Photometry....Pages 235-239
NIR imaging and modeling of the core of M100....Pages 240-241
Edge-on Spiral Galaxies: From Optical to Near-Infrared....Pages 242-243
Dynamical Evolution and Population Analysis of Galactic Disks from Optical and Infrared Colour Profiles in Edge-on Galaxies....Pages 244-245
Orbits in the Bar of NGC 4314....Pages 246-247
Multiband analysis of central-region features....Pages 248-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
The history and future of extinction models....Pages 253-262
3D Radiative Transfer Models of Galaxies....Pages 263-268
Near-IR Colors: The Structure of Dust Lanes in Barred Galaxies....Pages 269-276
K’-band observations of the Evil Eye Galaxy and the implied K’-band dust albedo....Pages 277-282
Probing the optical depth of spirals using multi-waveband observations....Pages 283-284
Dust extinction from Paschen-Balmer lines....Pages 285-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Evidence for Biased IMFs....Pages 289-298
IR Spectra and the L/M Ratios in Seyfert and Starburst Galaxies....Pages 299-307
Near Infrared Emission Lines in the Active Nuclei of Spiral Galaxies....Pages 308-314
Near-IR Properties of Quasar and Seyfert Host Galaxies....Pages 315-319
NIR view of the nuclear region of NGC 1808....Pages 320-324
Revealing the origin of nuclear starbursts in late-type spirals: IC 342....Pages 325-327
The nature of nuclear starbursts: M82....Pages 328-330
Near-IR Imaging of the Central Regions in NGC 1068 and NGC 7552....Pages 331-332
Near IR and mm Imaging Spectroscopy of the Nuclear Region of NGC 1068....Pages 333-335
NIR Imaging Spectroscopy of F10214: Evidence for a Starburst Around an AGN at Z = 2.284....Pages 336-338
K-Band Imaging of Arp’s Interacting Spirals....Pages 339-340
Starburst Episodes Near the Galactic Center....Pages 341-345
When Is a Merger not a Merger?....Pages 346-347
Back Matter....Pages 349-350