The World of Galaxies: Proceedings of the Conference “Le Monde des Galaxies” Held 12–14 April 1988 at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris in Honor of Gérard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Galaxy Catalogues and Surveys....Pages 1-15
The Updated Version of the Catalogue of Radial Velocities of Galaxies....Pages 16-17
A Survey Catalogue of Ultraviolet-Excess Galaxies....Pages 18-20
The Edinburgh/Durham Southern Sky Galaxy Survey....Pages 21-24
The AAO Distant Galaxy Cluster Survey....Pages 25-28
Galaxy Morphology and Classification....Pages 29-47
CCD Observations of a Sample of Emission Line Galaxies....Pages 48-49
The Manifold of Galaxian Parameters....Pages 50-52
Toward an Automatic Classification of Galaxies....Pages 53-74
Quantitative Classification of Galaxies....Pages 75-94
An Objective Classification System for Spiral Galaxies and Its Relationship to the [N II]/[S II] Ratio....Pages 95-98
The Magellanic Clouds as Late-Type Barred Spirals....Pages 99-107
New Results on the Geometrical Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud....Pages 108-111
The Magellanic Irregular Galaxy DDO 50....Pages 112-115
Photometry and Kinematics of the Magellanic Type Galaxy NGC 4618....Pages 116-117
Chemical Abundance and Age in the Magellanic Clouds; with Special Reference to SN 1987A....Pages 118-140
Ages of Star Clusters in the Bok Region of the Large Magellanic Cloud....Pages 141-144
Dynamical and Spectral Properties of Some Double Clusters in the LMC....Pages 145-148
Clusters of the Small Magellanic Cloud: L 113 and NGC 411....Pages 149-151
Automated Identification of Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 152-154
Star Cluster Population of M 33....Pages 155-159
Neutral Hydrogen in the Magellanic System....Pages 160-167
The Origin of the Magellanic Stream....Pages 168-169
H II Regions in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 170-187
De Vaucouleurs’s Galaxy....Pages 188-197
Dark Halos In Virialized Two-Component Systems of Galactic Mass....Pages 198-201
Kinematics and Chemical Properties of the Old Disk of the Galaxy....Pages 202-205
Complex Instability of Simple Periodic Orbits in a Realistic Galactic Potential....Pages 206-207
Photometry of Early-Type Galaxies and the r 1/4 Law....Pages 208-228
Box- and Peanut-Shaped Bulges of Disk Galaxies....Pages 229-231
The Luminosity Law of Ellipticals; A Test of a Family of Anisotropic Models on Eight Galaxies....Pages 232-234
“Box/Peanut”- Shaped Galactic Bulges....Pages 235-239
Surface Photometry of NGC 3379 with a Tektronix 2048 × 2048 CCD Camera — Comparison with the Luminosity Profile of de Vaucouleurs and Capaccioli....Pages 240-243
The Geometrical Parameters of Early-Type Galaxies and the Local Density....Pages 244-246
On the Nature of Compact Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 247-249
Two-Color Studies of Isophotal Contours in E — S0 Galaxies....Pages 250-251
Models of Spectral Energy Distribution of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 252-255
Photometry of Disks in Galaxies....Pages 256-275
A Study of the Sombrero Galaxy (NGC 4594)....Pages 276-278
Visible and Near Infrared Photometry of NGC 4736....Pages 279-282
Computer Processed Color Images of Spiral Galaxies....Pages 283-285
Modelling the Luminosity Distributions of Edge-On Spiral and Lenticular Galaxies....Pages 286-289
Near-Infrared Imaging of Edge-On Galaxies....Pages 290-292
Photometric Decomposition of Galaxies....Pages 293-311
The Kinematics of Early Type Galaxies....Pages 312-331
Models of the r 1/4 Law....Pages 332-338
Rotating Cores in Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 339-340
NGC 4546, the Double-Spin SB0....Pages 341-343
Radio Emission and Optical Properties of Early Type Galaxies....Pages 344-347
Interacting Pairs of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 348-350
Isophotal Twisting in Isolated Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 351-355
The Formation of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 356-358
Imaging Fabry-Perot Interferometry in Extragalactic Astronomy....Pages 359-372
A Circumnuclear Ring of Enhanced Star Formation in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 4321....Pages 373-376
An Intensive Study of M 81....Pages 377-386
H I and CO Emission in the Hot-Spot Barred Spiral NGC 4314....Pages 387-389
Optical and Radio Properties of Nearby, Non-Cluster Spirals....Pages 390-392
A Physical Model of the Gaseous Dust Band of Centaurus A....Pages 393-396
CCD Observations of Gas and Dust in NGC 4696: Implications for Cooling Flows?....Pages 397-400
NGC 2777: Amorphous — and Young?....Pages 401-403
VLA Observations of Unusual H I Distributions for Coma Cluster Spirals....Pages 404-407
Support for Three Controversial Claims Made by Gérard de Vaucouleurs....Pages 408-419
A Connection between the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster and the Abell 569 Cloud?....Pages 420-422
Automatic Algorithms for Grouping Nearby Galaxies....Pages 423-425
A Study of the Southern Supercluster....Pages 426-427
Dwarf Galaxies, Voids, and the Topology of the Universe....Pages 428-430
The Local Supercluster and Anisotropy of the Redshifts....Pages 431-452
Local Supercluster Velocity Field from Unbiased B -band T-F Distances....Pages 453-455
Spiral Galaxies as Indicators of the Hubble Flow....Pages 456-458
Flat Edge-On Galaxies and Large-Scale Streamings....Pages 459-460
On the de Vaucouleurs Density-Radius Relation and the Cellular Intermediate Large-Scale Structure of the Universe....Pages 461-472
Analytical Models for Large-Scale Structure in the Universe....Pages 473-476
The Distance-Redshift Relation in the Inhomogeneous Universe....Pages 477-479
The Impact of Space Projects on Extragalactic Research....Pages 480-488
Radial Distribution of Radio Emitting Galaxies in Clusters....Pages 489-491
An Unusual Red Envelope Galaxy in an X-ray Selected Cluster....Pages 492-495
Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies in the W Cloud of Virgo....Pages 496-498
Intergalactic Dust as Seen in Emission....Pages 499-501
Spectral Evolution of Galaxies....Pages 502-504
Distance Relationships....Pages 505-509
Local Calibrators and Globular Clusters....Pages 510-530
Distances to the Galaxies M 81 and NGC 2403 from CCD I -Band Photometry of Cepheids....Pages 531-532
Distances From H I Line Widths in Disk Galaxies....Pages 533-546
The D n — Log σ Relation for Elliptical Galaxies: Present Status and Future Work....Pages 547-566
Concluding Remarks....Pages 567-568
Back Matter....Pages 569-570