Ebook: Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork strikes a New Note

THE EDITORS: DAVID L. BLOCK AND KENNETH C. FREEMAN (SOC CO-CHAIRS), IVANIO PUERARI, ROBERT GROESS AND LIZ K. BLOCK 1. Harvard College Observatory, 1958 The past century has truly brought about an explosive period of growth and discovery for the physical sciences as a whole, and for astronomy in particular. Galaxy morphology has reached a renaissance . . The year: 1958. The date: October 1. The venue: Harvard College Observatory. The lecturer: Walter Baade. With amazing foresight, Baade penned these words: "Young stars, supergiants and so on, make a terrific splash - lots of light. The total mass of these can be very small compared to the total mass of the system". Dr Layzer then asked the key question: " . . . the discussion raises the point of what this classification would look like if you were to ignore completely all the Population I, and just focus attention on the Population II . . . " We stand on the shoulders of giants. The great observer E. E. Barnard, in his pioneering efforts to photograph the Milky Way, devoted the major part of his life to identifying and numbering dusty "holes" and dust lanes in our Milky Way. No one could have dreamt that the pervasiveness of these cosmic dust masks (not only in our Galaxy but also in galaxies at high redshift) is so great, that their "penetration" is truly one of the pioneering challenges from both space-borne telescopes and from the ground.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
A Tribute to Cosmic Dust Pioneer: J. Mayo Greenberg....Pages 1-14
The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note....Pages 15-38
Episodes in the Development of the Hubble Galaxy Classification....Pages 39-56
Secular Evolution Versus Hierarchical Merging: Galaxy Evolution Along the Hubble Sequence, in the Field and Rich Environments....Pages 57-74
Dense Gas and Star Formation in Bars....Pages 75-80
On the Origin of S0 Galaxies....Pages 81-100
Gravitational bar Torques in the Spiral/S0 Divide....Pages 101-110
Direct Measurement of Pattern Speeds in Double-Barred SB0’s....Pages 111-118
Gas Flows, Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution....Pages 119-138
Bar-Driven Evolution and 2D Spectroscopy of Bulges....Pages 139-148
Bar-Driven Fueling of Galactic Nuclei: A 2D View....Pages 149-154
Dust Penetrated Arm Classes: Insight from Rising and Falling Rotation Curves....Pages 155-164
Bar Dissolution and Reformation Mechanisms....Pages 165-174
Dynamics of Doubly Barred Galaxies, Also with the Inner Bar Retrograde....Pages 175-178
A Coordinated Episode of AGB Star Production at Large Galactocentric Distances in the Andromeda Galaxy?....Pages 179-188
Fuelling Starbursts and AGN....Pages 189-206
Penetrating Dust Tori in AGN....Pages 207-212
Bars from the Inside Out: An HST Study of Their Dusty Circumnuclear Regions....Pages 213-222
Morphology of Bar and Spiral Modes: Do They Relate?....Pages 223-230
Bar Formation by Galaxy-Galaxy Interactions....Pages 231-240
Triggering AGNs — Interactions or Bars?....Pages 241-250
Triggered Star Formation: From Large to Small Scales....Pages 251-254
Investigation of Age and Metallicity Gradients in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 255-260
Secular Evolution and the Growth of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies....Pages 261-280
Bars and Lenses in Spiral Galaxies: Clues for Secular Evolution....Pages 281-290
Evolution and Impact of Bars over the Last Nine Gyr: Early Results from GEMS....Pages 291-300
First Phylogenetic Analyses of Galaxy Evolution....Pages 301-305
A Unified Picture of Disk Galaxies Where Bars, Spirals and Warps Result from the Same Fundamental Causes....Pages 307-316
On the Generation of the Hubble Sequence Through an Internal Secular Dynamical Process....Pages 317-328
The Angular Momentum Problem and the Formation of Bulgeless Galaxies....Pages 329-334
Disks Evolution in a Cosmological Framework....Pages 335-340
Galaxy Formation and the Cosmological Angular Momentum Problem....Pages 341-358
The Problems with Galaxy Formation....Pages 359-376
The Interplay between Bars and Dark Matter Halos....Pages 377-388
Recent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of Galaxy Morphology and Classification....Pages 389-404
Using Bars as Signposts of Galaxy Evolution at High and Low Redshifts....Pages 405-414
An HSTACS/WFC H? Imaging Survey of Nearby Galaxies....Pages 415-422
HST MID-UV Imaging of Nearby Galaxies....Pages 423-428
Bulges, Disks, and Kinematics of Galaxies at Z ? 1....Pages 429-440
Fourier Decompositions of Galaxies....Pages 441-451
The Evolutionary Status of Clusters of Galaxies at Z ? 1....Pages 453-458
Distant Z > 2 Protoclusters and Their Galaxies....Pages 459-476
The Galaxy Structure-Redshift Relationship....Pages 477-488
The Cosmic Background: Evolution of Infrared Galaxies and Dust Properties. A Lecture Dedicated to the Memory of Mayo Greenberg....Pages 489-510
The Physical Evolution of Mass and Dust in Distant Galaxies....Pages 511-522
The Warm, Cold and Very Cold Dusty Universe....Pages 523-534
Turbulence and Galactic Structure....Pages 535-560
Chaos in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 561-580
Obtaining Statistics of Turbulent Velocity from Astrophysical Spectral Line Data....Pages 581-600
Estimating Power Spectra of Galaxy Structure: Can Statistics Help?....Pages 601-612
From Z > 6 to Z ? 2: Unearthing Galaxies at the Edge of the Dark Ages....Pages 613-618
Masks in the Milky Way....Pages 619-638
The Hierachical Formation of the Galactic Disk....Pages 639-654
The Sings View of Barred Galaxies....Pages 655-660
Quantifying Bar Strength: Morphology Meets Methodology....Pages 661-665
Estimation of Bar Strengths from Near-IR Images....Pages 667-672
Bar Strengths Measured for the Osubgs Sample: Active vs. Non-Active Galaxies....Pages 673-677
Globular Clusters: Galactic and Internal Motions....Pages 679-684
Evolution of Self-Gravitating Gas Disks Driven by a Rotating Bar Potential....Pages 685-701
Stellar Disk Truncations: Where Do We Stand?....Pages 703-712
On the Unification of Dwarf and Giant Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 713-722
Photodissociation and the Morphology of Hi in Galaxies....Pages 723-730
The True H2 Content of Spiral Galaxies....Pages 731-748
X-ray Perspectives of Early Type Galaxies....Pages 749-758
Spiral Arm Star Formation in Barred Galaxies....Pages 759-768
Galaxy Types and Luminosity Functions in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 769-770
Globular Cluster Systems and Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 771-772
Pseudobulges in Barred S0 Galaxies....Pages 773-774
Bar and Spiral Torques in the Triangulum Galaxy M33....Pages 775-776
Bar Parameters from H? Observations....Pages 777-780
Molecular Gas in Classical Elliptical Radio Galaxies....Pages 781-782
Bars and Dust in Multiwavelength Maps of Simulations of Galaxy Formation....Pages 783-784
How Barred is the NIR Nearby Universe? An Analysis Using 2MASS....Pages 785-786
Truncation of Stellar Disks at High Redshift....Pages 787-788
Is there a Large Stellar Bar in the LSB Galaxy UGC 7321 ?....Pages 789-790
Spiral Structure of the Milky Way: The State of Affairs....Pages 791-792
Uncovering Morphology from Dust: A NIR View of the Interacting Galaxy Pair NGC 5394/95....Pages 793-794
Scuba Local Universe Galaxy Survey....Pages 795-798
How JWST Can Measure First Light, Reionization and Galaxy Assembly....Pages 799-800
High Resolution Velocity Fields in the Strongly Barred Galaxy NGC 1530....Pages 801-804
Eyes to the Future: Penetrating the Dust Mask — Panel Discussion....Pages 805-806
Concluding Conference Thoughts …....Pages 807-834
The Noblest Scientific Problem of the Age: Perspectives on the Transits of Venus, 1882 and 2004....Pages 835-838
Description of the Commemorative Medallion, Struck to Celebrate the Transit of Venus, Observed from South Africa on 8 June 2004....Pages 839-843
Back Matter....Pages 845-848
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