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Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications

Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 18–20 November 1996

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  1. Luiz Nicolaci Costa

    1. European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

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  2. Alvio Renzini

    1. European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

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Table of contents (59 papers)

  1. Evolution

    1. The Luminosity-Width Relation of Spiral Galaxies

      • Riccardo Giovanelli
      Pages 146-157

    2. A Comparison of Tully-Fisher and Fundamental Plane Distances for Nearby Clusters

      • Marco Scodeggio, Riccardo Giovanelli, Martha P. Haynes
      Pages 158-163

    3. The Infrared Tully-Fisher Relation in Abell 1367 and Cancer

      • R. F. Peletier, S. P. Willner
      Pages 164-169

    5. The Fundamental Plane at z = 0.18

      • Inger Jørgensen, Jens Hjorth
      Pages 175-184

    6. Measuring the Evolution of the Mass-to-Light Ratio from z = 0 to z = 0.6 from the Fundamental Plane

      • Marijn Franx, Dan Kelson, Pieter van Dokkum, Garth Illingworth, Dan Fabricant
      Pages 185-196

    7. The Near-Infrared Fundamental Plane of Elliptical Galaxies and Its Evolution

      • M. A. Pahre, S. G. Djorgovski, R. R. de Carvalho
      Pages 197-202

    12. The 3CR Radio Galaxies at z ~ 1: Old Stellar Populations in Central Cluster Galaxies

      • Philip Best, Malcolm Longair, Huub Röttgering
      Pages 232-241

  2. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    3. Large Scale Flows from the Mark III Tully-Fisher Data

      • Adi Nusser, Marc Davis, Jeffrey A. Willick
      Pages 286-295

    4. Peculiar Motions of Clusters in the Perseus-Pisces Region

      • R. J. Smith, M. J. Hudson, J. R. Lucey, J. Steel
      Pages 296-305

    5. The EFAR Project: Monte Carlo Testing of the Fundamental Plane Distance Estimator

      • R. P. Saglia, Matthew Colless, G. Baggley, Edmund Bertschinger, David Burstein, Roger L. Davies et al.
      Pages 306-315

  3. Posters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317
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    3. Comparing the Mark III and Abell/ACO Density and Velocity Fields

      • Enzo Branchini, Manolis Plionis, Idit Zehavi, Avishai Dekel
      Pages 322-324
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About this book

At close inspection every galaxy appears to have its own individuality.A galaxy can be warped, lop-sided, doubly-nucleated, boxy or disky, ... in its own specific, peculiar way. Hence, for a complete description, galaxy taxonomy may ask for finer and finer classification schemes. However, for some applications it may be more fruitful to let details aside and focus on some global properties of galaxies. One is then seeking to measure just a few quantities for each galaxy, a minimum set of globalobservables that yet captures some essential aspect of these objects. One very successful example of this approach is offered by the scaling rela­ tions of galaxies, the subject of the international workshop held at ESO head­ quarters in Garching on November 19-21, 1996. Discovered in the late 1970's, the Tully-Fisher relation for the spirals and the Faber-Jackson relation, or its more recent version the Fundamental Plane, for ellipticals have now become flourishing fields of astronomical research in their own right, as well as being widely used tools for a broad range of astronomical investigations. The work­ shop was designed to address three key issues on galaxy scaling relations, i.e., their Origins, Evolution, and Applications in astronomy. The Origins of galaxy scaling relations still escape our full understanding.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

    Luiz Nicolaci Costa, Alvio Renzini

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 18–20 November 1996

  • Editors: Luiz Nicolaci Costa, Alvio Renzini

  • Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69654-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-21934-8Published: 18 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69654-4Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1431-2433

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 404

  • Number of Illustrations: 303 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Geophysics/Geodesy

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