Research Catalog

Title

Pathways through an eclectic universe : proceedings of a conference held at Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain, 23-27 April 2007 to celebrate John Beckman's 40 years in astrophysics / edited by J.H. Knapen, T.J. Mahoney, and A. Vazdekis.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Beckman, J. E.
• Knapen, Johan Hendrik.
• Mahoney, T. J.
• Vazdekis, Alexandre.

Description

xxv, 588 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 390

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 390.

Subject

• Stars > Formation > Congresses
• Galaxies > Formation > Congresses
• Molecular clouds > Congresses
• Galaxies > Evolution > Congresses
• 39.40 stars and star systems: general
• Galaxies > Evolution
• Galaxies > Formation
• Molecular clouds
• Stars > Formation
• Evolution of stars

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Contents

• Sess. I. The Star Formation Process -- The IMF of Simple and Composite Populations / P. Kroupa -- From Massive Cores to Massive Stars / M. Krumholz -- Competitive Accretion and the Formation of Massive Stars / I. A. Bonnell -- Molecular Cloud Formation and Magnetic Fields in Spiral Galaxies / C. L. Dobbs, D. J. Price and I. A. Bonnell -- Star Cluster Formation / L. J. Smith -- Dynamical Masses of Young Star Clusters: Constraints on the Stellar IMF and Star Formation Efficiency / N. Bastian -- Star Formation in Molecular Clouds? / N. J. Evans II -- Infrared Bubbles: The Environments of Massive Stars / E. Churchwell -- Molecular Cloud Structure and the Origin of Stellar Masses / J. Alves -- The Formation of Extreme Mass Ratio Binary Stars: A Tribute to Eduardo Delgado Donate / C. J. Clarke -- Internal Chemo-dynamical Modeling of Gas Exchange within Galaxies and with their Environment / G. Hensler, S. Recchi, D. Kroeger and T. Freyer -- Metals in H II Regions: The Determination of Chemical Abundances / J. M. Vilchez -- Collisional Enhancement of H I Lines in Ionized Nebulae / V. Luridiana -- Medium-term Variability in Emission from the Orion Nebula / J. E. Beckman, L. Gutierrez and C. Giammanco -- Galactic Interstellar Gas Cloud Mass Functions: A Simple Quantitative Approach / E. Casuso and J. E. Beckman -- The Effects of Spatially Distributed Ionization Sources on the Temperature Structure of H II Regions / B. Ercolano -- Determination of Time Dependence in the Temperature Structure of Ionized Interstellar Gas / C. Giammanco, L. Gutierrez and J. E. Beckman -- Young Stellar Clusters in Nearby Spiral Galaxies / P. Grosbol and H. Dottori -- Star Clusters as Diaries of Galaxies / Th. Maschberger and P. Kroupa -- Modeling Dust Evolution in the Interstellar Medium / S. Zhukovska and H.-P. Gail -- Sess. II. Star Formation Rates -- Star Formation Rate Determinations / D. Calzetti -- Circumnuclear Regions of Star Formation in Early-type Galaxies / A. I. Diaz, E. Terlevich, G. F. Hagele and M. Castellanos -- A Consistent Picture of Gas Kinematics within Nuclear Rings / L. M. Mazzuca, R. A. Swaters, S. Veilleux and J. H. Knapen -- Star Formation and Molecular Gas in M83 / A. A. Lundgren, H. Olofsson, T. Wiklind and R. Beck -- The Schmidt Law: Is it Universal and What Are its Implications? / R. C. Kennicutt, Jr. -- The Star Formation Law as a Function of Galactic Properties / S. Komugi, Y. Sofue, S. Onodera, F. Egusa, K. Muraoka, H. Nakanishi and J. S. Young -- Star Formation in Nuclear Rings / T. Boker -- GHaFaS: Galaxy H alpha Fabry-Perot Spectrometer for the WHT / C. Carignan, O. Hernandez, J. E. Beckman and K. Fathi -- Molecular Gas and Star Formation in M81 / V. Casasola, F. Combes, G. Galletta and D. Bettoni -- Discovery of Four New Ultra-compact Nuclear Rings in Three Spiral Galaxies / S. Comeron, J. H. Knapen and J. E. Beckman -- A Statistical Study of Circumnuclear Morphology of Sigma-Drop Galaxies / S. Comeron, J. H. Knapen and J. E. Beckman -- Kinematic Analysis of the Double-Barred Galaxy NGC 357 / A. de Lorenzo-Caceres, A. Vazdekis and J. A. L. Aguerri -- Star Formation Efficiency in Galaxy Interactions and Mergers: A Statistical Study / P. Di Matteo, F. Combes, A. L. Melchior and B. Semelin -- Determination of Star Formation Timescale and Pattern Speed of Spiral Galaxies / F. Egusa, Y. Sofue, S. Komugi and H. Nakanishi -- Fabry-Perot Interferometry and Spiral Galaxy Dynamics / K. Fathi, J. E. Beckman, C. Carignan and O. Hernandez -- The Evolution of Supernova Remnants in the M82 Central Starburst / D. Fenech, T. W. B. Muxlow, A. Pedlar, R. Beswick and M. K. Argo -- Disentangling Interacting Galaxy Pairs and Entangling Them Back / J. Fuentes-Carrera, P. Amram, C. Balkowski, H. Flores, M. Puech, Y. Yang, M. Rosado and H. Hernandez-Toledo -- Interactions and Star Formation in Galaxies / J. H. Knapen and P. A. James -- Interactions aud Star Formation Activity in Wolf-Rayet Galaxies / A. R. Lopez-Sanchez and C. Esteban -- Integral Field Spectroscopy of Nearby Starbursts / A. Monreal-Ibero, C. Munoz-Tunon, N. Caon, L. M. Cairos, V. Melo, B. Garcia-Lorenzo, P. Weilbacher, G. Tenorio-Tagle and M. M. Roth -- Calibration of Star Formation Rate Tracers with Population Synthesis Models: The L[subscript X]/L[subscript FIR] Ratio / H. Oti-Floranes and J. M. Mas-Hesse -- Converting H[alpha] Luminosities into Star Formation Rates / J. Pflamm-Altenburg, C. Weidner and P. Kroupa -- Two Extremely Compact Starbursts Inhabiting Clusters of Galaxies: Abell 539 and Abell 634 / D. Reverte, J. M. Vilchez, J. D. Hernandez-Fernandez and J. Iglesias-Paramo -- Supernovae and Star Formation in the ULIRG Arp 220 / H. Thrall -- Sess. III. Star Formation Histories -- The Role of Starbursts in the Star Formation History of the Universe / R. M. Gonzalez Delgado -- Recent Star Formation in Nearby Early-type Galaxies / M. Sarzi, R. Bacon, M. Cappellari, R. L. Davies, P. T. de Zeeuw, E. Emsellem, J. Falcon-Barroso, D. Krajnovic, H. Kuntschner, R. M. McDermid, R. F. Peletier and G. van de Ven -- Towards a New Classification of Early-type Galaxies: An Integral-field View / J. Falcon-Barroso, R. Bacon, M. Cappellari, R. L. Davies, P. T. de Zeeuw, E. Emsellem, D. Krajnovic, H. Kuntschner, R. M. McDermid, R. F. Peletier, M. Sarzi and G. van de Ven -- On Classical and Pseudo-bulges: The Nature of Bulges of Early-type Spirals / R. F. Peletier -- The Star Formation History of Late-type Galaxies / P. A. James and M. Prescott -- Three Types of Galaxy Disks / M. Pohlen, P. Erwin, I. Trujillo and J. E. Beckman -- The Outer Structure of Galactic Disks: Connections Between Bars, Disks, and Environments / P. Erwin, M. Pohlen, J. E. Beckman, L. Gutierrez and R. Aladro -- Resolving the Age-Metallicity Degeneracy / A. Vazdekis -- Disky Nuclei in Early- to Intermediate-type Disk Galaxies / M. Balcells -- The Origin of Star Formation since z = 1 / F. Hammer, M. Puech, Y. B. Yang and H. Flores -- The ACS LCID Project: Old Main Sequence Turnoff Photometry of Isolated Local Group Dwarf Galaxies / C. Gallart -- Distinguishing Active Galactic Nuclei and Star Formation / B. Groves and L. Kewley -- Classification of Galaxies by Their Radial Profiles: Unbarred Early Types / R. Aladro, L. Gutierrez, P. Erwin and J. E. Beckman -- The Structural Properties of a Sample of Blue Compact Galaxies / R. O. Amorin, J. A. L. Aguerri and C. Munoz-Tunon -- The Calcium Triplet Gradient of M32 / A. J. Cenarro, N. Cardiel and J. Gorgas -- Dark Matter in Low Mass Surface Density Galaxies / L. Chemin, G. Carignan and P. Amram -- Low Luminosity Early-type Galaxies in the NGC128 Group / I. Chilingarian, O. Sil'chenko, V. Afanasiev and P. Prugniel -- Properties of H I-selected Galaxies: The Contribution of Gas-rich, LSB Galaxies to the Local Universe / D. A. Garcia-Appadoo, A. A. West, J. J. Dalcanton and M. J. Disney -- A Preliminary Budget for the Ionizing Photons in the H II Regions of M51 / L. Gutierrez and J. E. Beckman -- Age, Metallicity and [alpha]-element Abundances in Stellar Populations / M. Koleva, R. Gupta, Ph. Prugniel and H. Singh -- Ansae in Barred Galaxies / I. Martinez-Valpuesta, J. H. Knapen and R. Buta -- The Cepheid Variable Population in the Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Pegasus / J. Meschin, C. Gallart, S. Cassisi, A. Aparicio and A. Rosenberg -- Stellar Populations in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies / D. Michielsen, M. Koleva, S. De Rijcke, W. W. Zeilinger, P. Prugniel, H. Dejonghe, A. Pasquali, I. Ferreras and V. P. Debattista -- The Role of Star Formation in Nitrogen Abundance Evolution / M. Molla, J. M. Vilchez, A. I. Diaz and M. Gavilan -- A New Grid of Evolutionary Synthesis Models / M. Molla, M. L. Garcia-Vargas, A. Bressan and P. Gomez-Alvarez -- Stellar Line-strength Index Gradients along Bars / I. Perez, P. Sanchez-Blazquez and A. Zurita
• What Hydrodynamical Simulations Tell Us about the Radial Properties of the Stellar Populations in Ellipticals / A. Pipino, A. D'Ercole and F. Matteucci -- Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relation from IMAGES / M. Rodrigues, H. Flores, F. Hammer and Y. C. Liang -- Comparison of Bar Strengths in the Optical and Near-infrared / T. Speltincx, E. Laurikainen, H. Salo, R. J. Buta and J. H. Knapen -- The Pattern Speeds of NGC 6946 / S. Toonen, K. Fathi, J. Falcon-Barroso, J. E. Beckman and P. T. de Zeeuw -- The Gemini Library of Late Spectral Templates for Stellar Kinematics Analysis in the CO 2.3 [mu]m Region / C. Winge, R. A. Riffel and T. Storchi-Bergmann -- Stellar Populations of Nearby Elliptical Galaxies / Y. Yamada, N. Arimoto, A. Vazdekis and R. F. Peletier -- New Clues to Unveiling the Recent Massive Star Formation History in the Bar of NGC 1530 / A. Zurita, I. Perez and M. Relano -- Panel Discussion I. Star Formation in Galaxies: How Do We Continue? / J. H. Knapen -- Sess. IV. Feedback and Infall -- Feedback in Galaxy Formation / J. Silk -- The Earliest Star Formation History: Learning from Globular Cluster Systems / M. Kissler-Patig -- On the Origin of Early-type Galactic Nuclei / R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta and P. Miocchi -- Galactic Disk Warps due to Intergalactic Accretion Flows onto the Disk / M. Lopez-Corredoira, J. Betancort-Rijo and J. E. Beckman -- Total Contribution of the Warm/Hot Intergalactic Medium to the X-ray Background / A. M. Soltan -- Infall and Accretion / F. Combes -- Gas Feedback and Angular Momentum Redistribution in Barred Galaxies within Dark Matter Halos / J. Berentzen, I. Shlosman, I. Martinez-Valpuesta and C. H. Heller -- Observations of Complex H, a High Velocity Cloud Close to the Galactic Plane / V. Buenrostro, J. Lockman and J. E. Beckman -- Triggering of Cloud Collapse in a Galactic Disk by Infall of a High Velocity Cloud / E. Casuso, J. E. Beckman and V. Buenrostro -- Supernova Feedback in Galaxy Formation / Y. Dubois and R. Teyssier -- FUSE and Chandra Observations of VV114 and Haroll: Feedback in Local Lyman Break Analogs / J. Grimes, T. Heckman and D. Strickland -- Feeding Active Galaxies: Gas Dynamics from the Outskirts to the Very Center / S. Haan, E. Schinnerer, C. G. Mundell, F. Combes, S. Garcia-Burillo and E. Emsellem -- Tidal Tails around Globular Clusters / M. Montuoti, R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, P. Di Matteo and P. Miocchi -- High Redshift Radio Galaxies: AGN Feedback in Extreme Starbursts / N. P. H. Nesvadba, M. D. Lehnert, C. De Breuck, A. Gilbert and W. van Breugel -- Mapping the Roots of the Galactic Wind in NGC 1569 with the Gemini GMOS IFU / M. S. Westmoquette, K. M. Exter, L. J. Smith and J. S. Gallagher -- Sess. V. Galaxy Evolution -- The Assembly History of Massive Galaxies: What Do We Know? / C. J. Conselice -- Strong Size Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies since z [is equilavent to] 2 / I. Trujillo and C. J. Conselice -- Evolution of Dust Attenuation and Star Formation Activity from z = 0.7 to z = 0.2 for a Sample of UV-selected Galaxies / J. Iglesias-Paramo, J. Hernandez-Fernandez, V. Buat, D. Burgarella, A. Boselli, C. K. Xu and T. T. Takeuchi -- The Redshift Evolution of Bulges and Disks of Spiral Galaxies in COSMOS / K. Sheth, L. Spalsbury and N. Scoville -- The Physical Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies at z > 5: Outflows and the "Pre-enrichment Problem" / M. D. Lehnert, M. Bremer, A. Verma, L. Douglas and N. Forster Schreiber -- The FIR-Radio Relationship at High and Low Redshifts / C. Vlahakis, S. Eales and L. Dunne -- Disk-Halo Interplay in Galaxy Evolution / I. Shlosman -- Formation and Evolution of Bulges / E. Athanassoula and I. Martinez-Valpuesta -- Boxy/Peanut Bulges and Stellar Bars / I. Martinez-Valpuesta and E. Athanassoula -- Downsizing in Elliptical Galaxies: Some Clues from Self-consistent Hydrodynamical Simulations / R. Dominguez-Tenreiro, J. Onorbe, A. Serna and A. C. Gonzalez-Garcia -- Primordial Light Element Abundances / P. Molaro -- Where Are the Missing Baryons and Metals? / B. E. J. Pagel -- A Quantitative Analysis of the Morphology of Star Formation in Galaxies at Different Redshifts / R. Azzollini and J. E. Beckman -- Self-consistent Models of Triaxial Cuspy Galaxies with Dark Matter Halos / R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, L. Leccese, D. Merritt and A. Vicari -- Hot GRB-selected Submillimeter Galaxies / M. J. Michalowski, J. Hjorth, J. M. Castro Ceron and D. Watson -- The ALHAMBRA Survey / M. Moles, J. A. L. Aguerri, E. J. Alfaro, N. Benitez, T. Broadhurst, J. Cabrera-Cano, F. J. Castander, J. Cepa, M. Cervino, A. Fernandez Soto, R. M. Gonzalez Delgado, L. Infanta, V. J. Martinez, J. Masegosa, I. Marquez, A. del Olmo, J. Perea, F. Prada, J. M. Quintana and S. F. Sanchez -- The Luminous Matter Profiles in Ellipticals since z [is equivalent to] 1.5: The Photometric Plane and its Evolution / J. Onorbe, R. Dominguez-Tenreiro and A. Serna -- Modeling the Formation and Evolution of Disk Galaxies / M. J. Stringer and A. J. Benson -- IMAGES I. Classification of Galaxy Kinematics since z = 1 / Y. Yang, H. Flores, F. Hammer, B. Neichel, M. Puech and N. Nesvadba -- Panel Discussion II. Reconciling Observations and Modeling of Star Formation at High Redshifts / J. H. Knapen -- Sess. VI. Eclectics -- An Eclectic Look at Stellar Compositions / D. L. Lambert -- Bolivia y America Latina: Tendencias de su desarrollo economico, social, y politico (Bolivia and Latin America: Trends in Economic, Social, and Political Development) / C. Quiroga Blanco -- Biogas at 4000 m above Sea Level: The pioneering work of Tecnologias en Desarrollo / J. E. Beckman and O. Campero -- Cosmology Between Physics and Philosophy -- Galileo to Einstein / J. Buttner and J. Renn -- Pathways through Interstellar Matter: From the Closest Stars to the Most Distant Quasars / J. Vladilo -- An Eclectic Summary of an Eclectic Conference / M. G. Edmunds.

ISBN

• 9781583816509
• 158381650X
• 9781583816516
• 1583816518

LCCN

2008926836

OCLC

• ocn241292012
• 241292012
• SCSB-1483719

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library