The Impact of HST on European Astronomy

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Hot Massive Stars: The Impact of HST....Pages 3-10
HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs....Pages 11-14
Key Abundance Tracers in the UV: From the Lightest to the Heaviest....Pages 15-18
UV Spectroscopy of Metal-Poor Massive Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud....Pages 19-22
Star Formation Histories of Resolved Galaxies....Pages 23-30
HST’s View of the Youngest Massive Stars in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 31-36
Planetary Nebulae and Their Central Stars in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 37-40
A Look at Neutron Stars with HST: From Positions to Physics....Pages 41-45
The HST Contribution to Neutron Star Astronomy....Pages 47-50
Exotic Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters....Pages 51-54
The Stellar Mass Function in Globular Clusters....Pages 55-59
Early Phases of Protoplanetary Disk Evolution....Pages 61-64
Unveiling the Role of Jets in Star Formation....Pages 65-69
A Hubble View of Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 71-75
A Preliminary Budget for the Ionizing Photons in HII Regions of M51....Pages 77-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
New HST Views at Old Stellar Systems....Pages 83-90
Young Massive Star Clusters in the Era of the Hubble Space Telescope....Pages 91-94
The Central Regions of Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 95-98
Nuclear Star Clusters Across the Hubble Sequence....Pages 99-104
Stellar Populations in the Outskirts of M31: The View from HST....Pages 105-112
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Variable Stars in “Nearby” Galaxies with HST....Pages 113-117
Extremely Metal-Poor Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 119-122
Resolved Stellar Populations in Nearby Galaxy Halos....Pages 123-126
The Kinematics of Core and Cusp Galaxies: Comparing HST Imaging and Integral-Field Observations....Pages 127-131
Resolving Extragalactic Star Clusters with HST/ACS....Pages 133-136
Tracing Galaxy Evolution in Clusters and Groups at z ≈1....Pages 137-140
The Dawn of Galaxies....Pages 141-154
A Simple Physical Model for Young Galaxies in the Early Universe....Pages 155-159
Diffuse Ionized Gas Halos Seen with HST....Pages 161-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
The Host Galaxy Properties of Powerful Radio Sources Across Cosmic Time....Pages 167-173
A New View of the Origin of the Radio-Quiet/Radio-Loud AGN Dichotomy?....Pages 175-178
The Bright and the Dark Side of Malin 1....Pages 179-182
Cluster Lensing with Hubble....Pages 183-190
HST Observations of Gravitationally Lensed QSOs....Pages 191-195
Study of Quasar Host Galaxies Combining HST/ACS Images and VLT Spectra....Pages 197-201
Local Lyman α Emitters and Their Relevance to High Redshift Ones....Pages 203-206
The HST View of Low Luminosity AGN....Pages 207-211
The Black Hole Masses in Galactic Nuclei....Pages 213-220
The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Treasury Survey....Pages 221-224
Discovery of a Population of Evolved and Massive Galaxies at High Redshift....Pages 225-230
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Searching for High Redshift Galaxies Using Population Synthesis Models....Pages 231-235
The ACS Grism Mode and ACS Grism Observations of Deep Fields and High z Ly- α Galaxies....Pages 237-241
The Role of HST in the Study of Near- and Mid-infrared-selected Galaxies....Pages 243-246
Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Evolution in COSMOS....Pages 247-254
Mass Estimations of Supermassive Black Holes in Brightest Cluster Galaxies....Pages 255-257
Near-UV Study of Active Galactic Nuclei with Advanced Camera for Surveys....Pages 259-261
A Quantitative Analysis of the Morphology of Star Formation in a Sample of GOODS-HST/ACS Galaxies....Pages 263-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Visiting Hubble in Orbit....Pages 267-271
HST and JWST: Present and Future....Pages 273-280
Enabling Science with the Hubble Legacy Archive....Pages 281-284
Advanced Calibration Using Physical Instrument Models: HST, VLT and Beyond....Pages 285-287
The Hubble Constant and HST....Pages 289-296
Recent Progress on the Cepheid Distance Scale with HST ....Pages 297-300
Seeing Dark Energy....Pages 301-307
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Closing Remarks....Pages 311-312