The Evolution of Galaxies: I-Observational Clues

Front Matter....Pages i-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-6
Challenging Observations with the New Generation of Astronomical Facilities....Pages 7-16
The Best Observables from the Point of View of a Model Maker....Pages 17-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-28
Molecular Gas in Galaxies....Pages 29-38
The Structure of Molecular Clouds and Their Global Emission Properties....Pages 39-49
Warm and Hot Gaseous Outflows in Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 51-54
ISOCAM Observations of a Galaxy Merging Sequence....Pages 55-58
The [CII] and [OI] Emission Lines in NGC 6946 and NGC 1313....Pages 59-62
The Infrared Spectral Energy Distribution of Normal Star-Forming Galaxies....Pages 63-66
Environmental Effects in Galaxies: Molecular Gas and Nuclear Activity....Pages 67-70
Pressure and Density Gradients in H ii Regions....Pages 71-74
Submillimeter CI and CO Lines in Galaxies....Pages 75-78
Modelling the Extinction Properties of Galaxies....Pages 79-82
Density Structure of the Giant H ii Region NGC 2363....Pages 83-86
What is the Behavior of the ISM in the SMC?....Pages 87-90
Tracking Down the Processes That Shape the ISM: The Case of the Supergiant Shell in IC 2574....Pages 91-94
CO-Observations of Post-Starburst Galaxies....Pages 95-95
IRS: The Infrared Spectrograph on SIRTF....Pages 97-97
A Spectral Diagnostic for Density-Bounded HII Regions....Pages 99-99
Mid-Infrared Spectral Decomposition between Starbursts and AGNs....Pages 101-101
Mid-Infrared Observations of NGC 1068 with ISOCAM....Pages 103-103
Front Matter....Pages 27-28
Dust in the Dwarf Galaxy NGC 1569: Evidence for an Enhancement of Small Grains....Pages 105-105
The H i Morphology of Low-Mass Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 107-107
Expanding Ionized Shells around Star Forming Regions in the Most Metal-Poor Blue Compact Galaxies....Pages 109-109
Chemodynamical Mixing Cycles in Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 111-111
Multiwalength Studies of Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 113-113
The Mid-Infrared Properties of Nearby Spiral Galaxies....Pages 115-115
Evolution of the X-Ray Luminosity and Metallicity of Starburst Blown Superbubbles....Pages 117-117
Hot Gas in Starburst Galaxies — X-Rays from NGC 2903 and NGC 4569....Pages 119-119
The Effect of Violent Star Formation on the State of the Molecular Gas in M 82....Pages 121-124
The Interstellar Medium and the Intergalactic Medium....Pages 125-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-136
From Stellar Spectra to Abundances....Pages 137-146
Chemical Abundances in Our Galaxy and Other Galaxies Derived from H ii Regions....Pages 147-156
Abundance Anomalies in RGB Stars as Probes of Galactic Chemical Evolution....Pages 157-160
The First Stars: Evolution and Nucleosynthesis....Pages 161-164
Chemical Evidence for Evolution of Galaxies....Pages 165-168
On the Cosmic Origins of Carbon and Nitrogen....Pages 169-172
Abundances in Ellipticals Traced by Globular Clusters....Pages 173-176
Abundance Analysis in the near IR: Stellar Clusters and Galaxies....Pages 177-182
On Ionisation Effects and Abundance Ratios in Damped Lyman- α Systems....Pages 183-187
Can Giant HII Regions Serve as Abundance Indicators at High Metallicities?....Pages 189-192
Front Matter....Pages 135-136
Element Abundance Patterns of Metal-Poor Halo Stars....Pages 193-193
Chemical Evolution Models of Local dSph Galaxies....Pages 195-195
Empirical Abundance Determination for Ionized Nebulae....Pages 197-197
PNe Abundances: Galactic Bulge Versus the Disc....Pages 199-199
Oxygen Abundance Distribution in a New Well-Selected Sample of Blue Compact Galaxies....Pages 201-201
Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 203-204
Chemical Evolution of Bulges....Pages 205-205
 3 He and 7 Li in Low- and Intermediate Mass Stars....Pages 207-207
Abundance Ratios in Hierarchical Galaxy Formation....Pages 209-209
Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Halo....Pages 211-211
Abundances in Galaxies....Pages 213-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-220
Stellar Populations in Local and Distant Galaxies....Pages 221-230
Star Formation Histories of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 231-239
The Impact of Chemical Evolution on the Observable Properties of Stellar Populations....Pages 241-250
Mid Infrared Colors of Early Type Galaxies....Pages 251-254
The Stellar Populations of the Milky Way Satellites: The Early Universe through the Color-Magnitude Diagram....Pages 255-258
Multiwavelength Analysis of Active Star Forming Regions: The Case of NGC 604....Pages 259-262
Properties of the Z =2.73 Galaxy, MS1512-CB58....Pages 263-266
NIR Census of the Stellar Content of Nearby Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies with HST....Pages 267-272
White Dwarfs as Tracers of Galactic Evolution....Pages 273-276
Front Matter....Pages 219-220
Wolf-Rayet Stellar Populations in the Most Metal-Deficient Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 277-280
Are There Any Young Galaxies in Our Local Universe?....Pages 281-286
The Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 287-290
Massive Star Populations and Chemical Abundances from New Models with Rotation....Pages 291-294
Strong Balmer Lines in Old Ellipticals....Pages 295-298
The IMF of Starbursts....Pages 299-303
The Physical Relation between Age and Metallicity in Galaxies....Pages 305-308
The Star Formation Histories of Blue Compact Galaxies: Where are the GAPs?....Pages 309-312
Structure and Evolution of the Inner Milky Way Galaxy....Pages 313-316
IZw18: Ideal Laboratory for the Study of the Evolution of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies....Pages 317-317
The Near-IR Calcium Triplet: Empirical Calibration and Stellar Populations Models....Pages 319-319
Evolutionary Synthesis Models: Gamma-Ray Emission....Pages 321-321
H-Band Observation of the Stellar Population in Seyfert Galaxies....Pages 323-323
Ultraviolet Observations of Galaxies....Pages 325-325
Quantitative Properties of the Local Star-Forming Galaxies....Pages 327-327
Ultra-Deep Near Infrared Surface Photometry of Edge-on Disk Galaxies....Pages 329-329
Old Stellar Populations in Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 331-331
Age Metallicity Relation in the LMC....Pages 333-333
Stellar Ages and Metallicities along the Bars of Barred Spirals....Pages 335-335
Star-Formation in Ring Galaxies: Multi-Band Observations....Pages 339-339
Front Matter....Pages 219-220
Do Luminous Elliptical Galaxies Have Young Disks?....Pages 341-341
Age Constraints for Blue LSBGs....Pages 343-343
Photometrical Constraints on the Age of IZw18....Pages 345-345
Circumnuclear Ring of the Starburst Galaxy NGC 253. An Infrared View....Pages 347-347
The Simultaneous Multiple Constraints of the IMF and SFR History in Star Formation Complexes....Pages 349-349
The λ4000Å Break in Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 351-351
Stellar Populations in BL Lac Type Objects....Pages 353-353
Stellar Populations in Nuclei and Bulges of Early-Type Disk Galaxies: Ages and Magnesium-to-Iron Ratios....Pages 355-355
Optical/Near-IR Colors of HII Galaxies....Pages 357-357
The Origin of the CMR in Virgo....Pages 359-359
The Evolution of Stellar Populations....Pages 361-368
Front Matter....Pages 369-370
The Role of Mergers in Galaxy Evolution....Pages 371-382
Observational Constraints on the Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 383-392
Ram Pressure Stripping and Galaxy Orbits....Pages 393-396
Ionizing the Diffuse Interstellar Medium in Late-Type Galaxies....Pages 397-400
The History of Star Formation in Normal Late-Type Galaxies....Pages 401-404
The Formation of Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in Interacting Systems: The Case of Arp 245 (NGC 2992/93)....Pages 405-408
Kinematics of Gas and Stars in Gas-Rich Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 409-412
ULIRGs: Tidal-Induced Star Formation and Implications for Scuba Sources....Pages 413-416
Evolution of Galaxy Morphologies in Clusters....Pages 417-420
Front Matter....Pages 369-370
NIR Properties of Isolated Spirals with and Without an AGN....Pages 421-424
Searching for Tidal Tails in Galactic Dwarf Spheroidal Satellites....Pages 425-428
The Fundamental Properties of Early-Type Galaxies in the Coma Cluster....Pages 429-432
Kinematics of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies....Pages 433-436
The Ages of Galactic Bulges in the Local Universe....Pages 437-440
On the Origin of the Luminosity — Metallicity Relation for Late-Type Galaxies: Spirals to Irregulars Transition....Pages 441-444
The Role of External Trigger for SF in Blue Compact Galaxies: Implications from Statistics of Companion Galaxies....Pages 445-448
An Empirical Picture for the Evolution of Galaxies Outside of Clusters....Pages 449-452
Spectrophotometric Observations of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: Mkn 370, Mkn 600 and Mkn 36....Pages 453-453
2D Kinematics of Nuclear Bars....Pages 455-455
NGC 4340: Double Bar + Fossil Nuclear Ring....Pages 457-457
Integral Field Spectroscopy of Active Galaxies....Pages 459-459
Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of BCDs: MRK 370....Pages 461-461
Ram Pressure Stripping of Dwarf Satellites in Disc Galaxies....Pages 463-463
On the Bulge-to-Disk Size Ratio for Spiral Galaxies....Pages 465-465
A K -Band μ 0 —Log h Relation for Early-Type Spiral Galaxy Disks....Pages 467-467
Sub-KPC Stellar Kinematics of AGN as Revealed by Isaac (VLT/ANTU) Spectroscopy....Pages 469-469
The Kinematics of the LMC from its Carbon Stars....Pages 471-471
Clues to the Formation and Evolution of Tidal Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 473-473
Structural Parameters and Morphology of a Subsample of BCGs from the First and Second Byurakan Surveys....Pages 475-475
Front Matter....Pages 369-370
Properties of Galaxies with Universal Density Profile....Pages 477-477
Galaxy Formation Clues from Globular Cluster Systems: Preliminary Results for Coma....Pages 479-479
Two Physical Laws for Elliptical Galaxies: Photometrical Consequences....Pages 481-481
Observations of Near-Infrared Selected LSB Galaxies....Pages 483-483
Looking for Intermediate Age Populations in Merger Remnant Galaxies: The Case of NGC 7252....Pages 485-485
Cometary Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 487-487
Radial Redistribution of Gas Connected to a Distant Galaxy versus Galaxy Encounter....Pages 489-489
Star Formation and Feedback Processes in Numerical Simulations: Outflows, Galactic Winds and the Fate of Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 491-491
Modeling Gas and Stellar Kinematics in Disc Galaxies....Pages 493-493
Genes and Galaxies....Pages 495-495
Galaxy Recycling: The First Sample of TDG Candidates....Pages 497-497
The Ionized Intergalactic Gas: Baryonic Dark Matter....Pages 499-499
Structure, Dynamics and Environment of Galaxies....Pages 501-504
Front Matter....Pages 505-506
The Masses of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts....Pages 507-516
Metals at High Redshifts....Pages 517-525
ISO Observations of Faint Radio Sources....Pages 527-530
Is the Deficit of Z > 1 Field Ellipticals Real?....Pages 531-534
High Z Evolution of Optically and IR-Selected Galaxies....Pages 535-538
The FORS Deep Field....Pages 539-542
A Proto-Cluster around a Radio Galaxy at Redshift 2.16....Pages 543-546
Front Matter....Pages 505-506
Properties of High- Z Galaxies Seen through Lensing Clusters....Pages 547-550
The Evolution and Space Density of Damped Lyman- α Galaxies....Pages 551-554
Metals in the Intergalactic Medium....Pages 555-560
Morphological Classification of High Redshift Galaxies....Pages 561-564
Galaxy Evolution: The ISOCAM View....Pages 565-569
Gas Metallicities and Early Evolution of Distant Radio Galaxies....Pages 571-574
The Evolution of the Star Formation Rate in Galaxies....Pages 575-575
Detection Limits for the Cosmos Survey: K Corrections for B, R, K Bands....Pages 577-577
Field Galaxy Evolution with the MUNICS Survey....Pages 579-579
The Evolution of the Luminosity Function of Field Galaxies from Z = 1 To Z = 0....Pages 581-581
The H α SFR of the Universe at Z = 0.24 and Z = 0.4....Pages 583-583
The UCM-CIDA-YALE Survey: Looking for the Current Star-Forming Galaxies....Pages 585-585
Evolution of Galaxies in Poor Clusters....Pages 587-587
Modelling the Extinction Properties of Galaxies....Pages 589-592
Massive Star Formation in Luminous Compact Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts....Pages 593-596
Global Star Formation History in Rich Cluster Cores....Pages 597-597
The CADIS Picture of Galaxy Evolution in the Range 0< z < 1 ....Pages 599-599
Applications of Evolutionary Synthesis Models: From Nearby to High-Z Galaxies....Pages 601-601
Are the Submillimeter and X-Ray Backgrounds Related Phenomena?....Pages 603-603
The L-σ Relation in HII Galaxies: Cosmological Relevance....Pages 605-605
Front Matter....Pages 505-506
Number Counts and Colors of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South....Pages 607-607
The Properties of High Redshift Galaxies....Pages 609-617
Front Matter....Pages 619-619
The Evolution of Galaxies: Unsolved Problems and Future Prospects....Pages 621-630
Back Matter....Pages 631-636