The Stellar Populations of Galaxies: Proceedings of the 149th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Angra Dos Reis, Brazil, August 5–9, 1991

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
The Halo Populations....Pages 1-14
The Ages of the Globular Clusters....Pages 15-21
Population II in the Milky Way Galaxy and the LMC....Pages 23-28
The Stellar Population of the Galactic Bulge....Pages 29-40
Metal-Rich Stars in the Galactic Bulge and Their Implications for Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 41-46
Globular Clusters of the Inner Galactic Bulge....Pages 47-50
Dynamics of the Galactic Spheroid....Pages 51-60
Structure and Kinematics at the North Galactic Pole....Pages 61-64
The Disk of the Galaxy....Pages 65-73
The Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of the Galactic Disk....Pages 75-76
The Galactic Bulge and the Thick Disc....Pages 77-79
Dynamics of Stellar Populations in Galactic Disks....Pages 81-92
The Stellar Content of Spiral Arms....Pages 93-101
Mixture Models for Studying Stellar Populations: Bivariate Relationships and Posterior Mixing Proportions Applicable to the Thick-Disk Problem....Pages 103-108
Stellar Evolution and Stellar Populations in Galaxies....Pages 109-118
The Formation of Disks in Galaxies....Pages 119-122
Trends of Element Abundances in the Stars of our Galaxy....Pages 123-132
Chemical Evolution of Stellar Populations....Pages 133-142
The [O/Fe] Ratio in Halo, Disk and Bulge Stars....Pages 143-146
The Stellar Populations of the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 147-156
Survey of Stellar Populations in the SMC....Pages 157-160
Stellar Populations in M31 and M33....Pages 161-168
The Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies of the Local Group & the Stellar Populations and Age of M32....Pages 169-179
Intermediate Age Populations....Pages 181-190
Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies....Pages 191-200
Surveying Carbon Stars in the Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies....Pages 201-205
Stellar Populations in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies of the Local Group....Pages 207-210
Blue Low Surface-Brightness Galaxies....Pages 211-214
Star and Star Cluster Spectral Libraries....Pages 215-224
Model Atmospheres for Population Synthesis....Pages 225-232
Ultraviolet Observations of Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters and Galaxies....Pages 233-243
The Stellar Content of the Bulges of Spiral Galaxies: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?....Pages 245-254
Absorption-Line Spectra of Elliptical Galaxies and Their Relation to Elliptical Formation....Pages 255-265
1. Evidence for Merger Signatures in the Line-Strength Gradients of Elliptical Galaxies 2. A Universal Relation Between Metallicity and Potential Depth for All Hot Stellar Systems?....Pages 267-270
Young Giant Elliptical Galaxies: where are they?....Pages 271-276
Metallicity of Unresolved Stellar Populations....Pages 277-280
Stellar Populations and Peculiar Velocities of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 281-285
The Stellar Population in Galaxies Observed on the Astrophysical Station “Astron”....Pages 287-290
The Hot Stellar Component in Elliptical Galaxies and Spiral Bulges....Pages 291-295
Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts....Pages 297-309
Evolutionary Population Synthesis....Pages 311-320
Models of Population Synthesis....Pages 321-324
The Age Ladder from Low- to High-Redshift Populations....Pages 325-336
Searches for Primeval Galaxies....Pages 337-347
Some Insights into the Photometric Evolution of Galaxies....Pages 349-352
Testing the World Model Through High Redshift Galaxies in Cluster....Pages 353-356
UV to IR Models of Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology....Pages 357-366
Dark Populations....Pages 367-378
The Neutron Star Population in the Galaxy....Pages 379-382
Chemical Abundances of Galactic Planetary Nebulae....Pages 383-383
Line Asymmetry and Projection Factors in Cepheid Variables....Pages 384-384
Orbital Characteristics of High-Velocity Stars in Two Galactic Mass Distributions....Pages 385-385
Three-Dimensional Picture of the Galactic Disk as Defined by the Young Stellar Component....Pages 386-386
Astration and Production in Chemical Evolution....Pages 387-387
Can the First Stars Formed Be Pre-Galactic?....Pages 388-388
How Many Bursts of Star Formation in M82?....Pages 389-389
Pre Main Sequence Chromospheric Activity....Pages 390-390
Morphology and Colors of Distant Galaxies....Pages 391-391
Integrated UBV Photometry of 624 LMC Clusters....Pages 392-392
Photometric Results for Stellar Fields Inside Supergiant Shell LMC4....Pages 393-393
Synthetic M/L B Ratios for E and S Galaxies....Pages 394-394
New Theoretical Isochrones....Pages 395-395
The HR Diagram of LMC Supergiant Stars....Pages 396-396
Metallicity Distribution of Elliptical Galaxies Through a Quantitative Calibration of the Magnesium Mg 2 Index....Pages 397-397
The Evolution of the Galaxy: The 16 O Gradient and the Surface Gas Density....Pages 398-398
The Outer Disk of the Galaxy....Pages 399-399
Systematic Differences Between the Field and Cluster Ellipticals....Pages 400-400
Metallicity of the Star III-17 in NGC 6553....Pages 401-401
Synthetic Horizontal Branches for Galactic Globular Clusters....Pages 402-402
A Possible Reconcilliation Among Different RR Lyrae Absolute Magnitude Calibrations and Implications for the Age-Metallicity Relation....Pages 403-403
Structure and Colors of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster....Pages 404-404
Galaxy Formation Study Using QSO Absorbers....Pages 405-405
Warmers: Source of Ionization and N Enrichment in AGN....Pages 406-406
The M v (RR)-[Fe/H] Relation from the Baade-Wesselink Method Applied to Field RR Lyrae Stars....Pages 407-407
Separation of Halo and Thick Disc Stars in two Catalogs....Pages 408-408
Spectral Characteristics of Early G-Dwarf Stars Towards the Galactic Poles....Pages 409-409
Searching Significant Signatures of Stellar Population Characteristics in Multivariate Star Count Samples....Pages 410-410
Ultraviolet Studies of the Face-on Galaxy NGC 2217....Pages 411-411
Nova LMC 1991: A Super-Bright Nova in the Large Magellanic Cloud....Pages 412-412
Stellar Population Changes in Post-Core-Collapse Globular Clusters....Pages 413-413
A Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey: A new probe for hidden stellar populations in our Galaxy....Pages 414-414
Synthetic Mg 1 , Mg 2 and Mgb Indices....Pages 415-415
Infrared Detection of Supernova Remnants in the Nucleus of NGC 253?....Pages 416-416
Relative Abundances of Thorium and Europium in Halo Stars....Pages 417-417
He Abundance in Red Giants....Pages 418-418
Mass Loss from Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae with WC Spectrum....Pages 419-419
Models of Emission Line Regions Around Central Cluster Galaxies....Pages 420-420
QSO Absorption Lines and the Gas and Star Content of High Redshift Galaxies....Pages 421-421
Metal Abundances of Magellanic Cloud Clusters....Pages 422-422
A Comparison Between a Color Evolution Model and New Sample of LMC Clusters: Formation Rate....Pages 423-423
Radial population synthesis and the ionization of gas in elliptical galaxies....Pages 424-424
A CCD Search for Faint High-Latitude Carbon Stars: Dwarfs Among the Giants....Pages 425-425
A Spectrophotometric Investigation of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 426-426
QSO Absorption-Line Systems and Star Formation....Pages 427-427
Stellar Abundances in the Outer Galactic Disk....Pages 428-428
NGC 185 and the Extended Faber-Jackson Relation....Pages 429-429
Study of Stellar Populations Using Neural Network Techniques....Pages 430-430
The Spherical Harmonics as an Alternative Tool for Determining the Kinematical Parameters of the Local Milky Way....Pages 431-431
Luminosity Functions and Mass Functions for Massive Stars: Associations in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds....Pages 432-432
The Stellar Populations of Neutron and Strange Stars in the Galaxy....Pages 433-433
Abundances of Long-Period Variables: Initial Results....Pages 434-434
The Time Dependent Radio Sources in Cepheus A....Pages 435-435
Ages and metallicities of M31 star clusters....Pages 436-436
Dark-to-luminous mass ratio in spiral galaxies....Pages 437-437
The Colour Gradient in M31 : Evidence for Disc Formation by Biased Infall ?....Pages 438-438
Moments of Peculiar Velocities in Stellar Systems with Point Axial Symmetry....Pages 439-439
Circumnuclear Star Formation in Seyfert Galaxies....Pages 440-440
Stellar Populations in Seyfert 1 Galaxies....Pages 441-441
Stellar Populations of BCD Galaxies from Spectro-Photometric Evolutionary Synthesis....Pages 442-442
The Halo Metallicity Distribution....Pages 443-443
Blue Stars in the Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy NGC 205....Pages 444-444
Stellar Populations in the Local Group Galaxy NGC 185....Pages 445-445
Evidence for an Old Galactic Bulge from RR Lyrae Stars in Baade’s Window: The Inside-Out Picture of Galaxy Formation....Pages 446-446
Injection of Mass and Energy into the ISM by Massive Stars....Pages 447-447
The distribution function for a new sample of OH/IR stars....Pages 448-448
UBVRI distances and metallicities for a sample of late-type HIPPARCOS stars....Pages 449-449
Color Distribution of Galaxies in the Core Of S0400....Pages 450-450
Planetary Nebulae and Stellar Populations....Pages 451-451
Evolutionary Spectral Synthesis and the UV Upturn in Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 452-452
Star Formation and Stellar Populations in Ring Galaxies....Pages 453-453
The Evolution of the Red Giant Clump and the Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud....Pages 454-454
The Stellar Population and Internal Kinematics of the Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy....Pages 455-455
Color Mapping Cluster Cooling Flow Galaxies....Pages 456-456
The Morphology and Stellar Populations of the Dwarf Amorphous Galaxies Ngc 216 and Ngc 2915....Pages 457-457
CNO Overabundances in 6 Stars of ω Centauri....Pages 458-458
Kinematics of the Galactic Bulge....Pages 459-459
Evolutionary Status of Galaxy Population in Clusters at Intermediate Redshift (z ~ 0.2)....Pages 460-460
A Study of the Properties of Galactocentric Orbits....Pages 461-461
A Color-Magnitude Diagram in Field #3 of the Palomar—Groningen Survey....Pages 462-462
On the Local Velocity Dispersions....Pages 463-463
On the Total Kinetic Energy of Our Galaxy with the Contribution of the Populations....Pages 464-464
A Model of the Galaxy for Star Counts in the Infrared....Pages 465-465
Metallicity Gradients in the Disks of SO Galaxies....Pages 466-466
30 Doradus: The Stellar Content and IMF....Pages 467-467
The RSG and WR Content of the Circumnuclear HII Regions of NGC 3310....Pages 468-468
How Transparent are Spiral Galaxies?....Pages 469-469
The Halo Planetary Nebulae M2-29 and BB-1....Pages 470-470
Moving Clusters Among Galactic Halo Stars....Pages 471-471
Population Synthesis in Starburst Galaxies....Pages 472-472
Carbon Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Positions, Finding Charts and Spectrophotometry....Pages 473-473
Infrared Properties of Galaxies in Clusters: Abell 194, Abell 426 (Perseus) and Abell 2151 (Hercules)....Pages 474-474
Synthetic P-AGB Populations....Pages 475-475
Analysis of Very Rich K Giant Stars....Pages 476-476
Photometry of Galactic Globular Clusters of the Disk System....Pages 477-477
The Wolf-Rayet and O Star Content of Violent Starbursts....Pages 478-478
Grain Cooling in Collapsing Clouds....Pages 479-479
Baade’s Window Photometry and Spectroscopy....Pages 480-480
Massive Star Formation and Chemical Evolution in NGC 1313....Pages 481-481
Star-Formation Histories of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 482-482
CNO Excess in 47 Tucanae from the Integrated Spectrum Synthesis....Pages 483-483
Tests and discussion on the solution uniqueness of population synthesis methods....Pages 484-484
On Main Sequence Distances and the Local Distance Scale....Pages 485-485
Kinematics of Halo and High-Velocity Disk Stars....Pages 486-486
Halo and High-Velocity Disk Stars....Pages 487-487
Correlations Between UBV Colors and Fine Structure in E + SO Galaxies....Pages 488-488
A Method to Derive Velocity Dispersions from Composite Spectra....Pages 489-489
Lithium in Population II Stars....Pages 490-490
A Near-IR Imaging Survey of Interacting Galaxies....Pages 491-491
The Population of Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Bulge....Pages 492-492
CCD Photometry of HII Galaxies....Pages 493-493
Observations of Ly α Emission in Young Galaxies....Pages 494-494
Tools for a New Approach of Stellar Populations....Pages 495-495
The Bolometric Luminosity Function for the Lowest Mass Stars....Pages 496-496
Analysis of the Optical Spectra of Wolf-Rayet Galaxies....Pages 497-497
Evolutionary Population Synthesis....Pages 498-498
The HI Surface Density in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies....Pages 499-499
Abundance Gradients and Physical Properties of Spiral Galaxies....Pages 500-500
Colour-Differences Among Globular Cluster Systems....Pages 501-501
Stellar Evolution in the Magellanic Clouds from Studies of Planetary Nebulae....Pages 502-502
The Shape of the Bulge From Iras Miras....Pages 503-503
The Periods of Miras in the Bulge and Their Latitude Dependence....Pages 504-504
New Wht+Fos Optical Spectra of Wr Stars in M33 & M31....Pages 505-505
Ob Associations in Ngc 6822....Pages 506-506
Chemical Abundances in Old Populations....Pages 507-507
Morphological and Spatial Distributions of High Velocity Molecular Outflows....Pages 508-508
The Stellar Populations and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies in Compact Groups....Pages 509-509
The Pre-Main Sequence Stellar Population in Galaxies....Pages 510-510
Stellar Populations of a Local Sample From Its Velocity Distribution....Pages 511-511
The Group of Be/X-Ray Sources in the Galaxy....Pages 511-511
The Progenitors of Planetary Nebulae....Pages 512-512
A Binary Evolutionary Model for the Progenitor of Sn 1987A....Pages 512-512
Stellar Parameters in the Basel Field Sa 141....Pages 513-513
Near Infrared Imaging of a Giant Red Envelope Galaxy....Pages 513-513
The Distribution of Low Mass Star Forming Regions....Pages 514-514
Back Matter....Pages 515-521