The Evolution of Galaxies: III - From Simple Approaches to Self-Consistent Models / Edition 1

by G. Hensler, G. Stasinska, S. Harfst, P. Kroupa, C. Theis

Overview

Galaxies have a history. This has become clear from recent sky surveys which have shown that distant galaxies, formed early in the life of the Universe, differ from the nearby ones. New observational windows at ultraviolet, infrared and millimetric wavelengths (provided by ROSAT, IRAM, IUE, IRAS, ISO) have revealed that galaxies contain a wealth of components: very hot gas, atomic hydrogen, molecules, dust, dark matter... A significant advance is expected from the results of new instruments (VLT, FIRST, XMM) which will allow one to explore the most distant Universe.

Three Euroconferences were planned to punctuate this new epoch in galactic research, bringing together specialists in various fields of Astronomy. This book contains the proceedings of the third conference and presents the actual state-of-the-art of modelling galaxy evolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402011825
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	07/31/2003
Edition description:	Reprinted from ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, 284:2, 2003
Pages:	686
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	1
	Introduction
	Requirements for observations from chemodynamical models (Review)	19
	Formation and Early Evolution of Galaxies
	Early formation and evolution of galaxies (Review)	31
	Non-standard structure formation scenarios	41
	Galaxy formation: Warm dark matter, missing satellites, and the angular momentum problem	47
	Numerical modeling of galaxy evolution	51
	The formation of the first luminous objects in the universe	55
	Tests and constraints on theories of galaxy formation and evolution	59
	Illuminating protogalaxies? The discovery of extended Lyman-[alpha] emission around a QSO at z = 4.5	63
	Modeling the Ly[alpha] radiation of high-redshift galaxies	67
	Recombination emission from protoglobular clouds on high redshifts	71
	Galics: A direct link between theory and observations	75
	Predicting multi-wavelength properties of Lyman break galaxies with GalICS	79
	Clustering evolution between z = 1 and today	83
	Photometric redshifts for an optical/near-infrared catalogue in the Chandra Deep Field South	87
	The FORS Deep Field: the photometric catalog	91
	A survey searching for the epoch of assembling of Hubble types	95
	Large-scale structure in the NIR-selected MUNICS survey	99
	Clues on the Hubble sequence formation from self-consistent hydrodynamical simulations	103
	The mix of disky and boxy ellipticals	107
	Modelling the formation of individual galaxies: A morphology problem for CDM?	111
	Early-type galaxies at low z from self-consistent hydrodynamical simulations	117
	Pregalactic metal enrichment (Review)	121
	Chemical enrichment of the intra-cluster medium	131
	The evolution of cosmic star formation, metals and gas	135
	Dust formation in damped Ly-alpha systems	139
	Evidence for chemical evolution in spectra of high redshift galaxies	143
	Large-Scale and Environmental Effects
	Scale interactions and galaxy evolution (Review)	151
	Hints on the energetics of ICM	161
	Environmental effects on galaxy properties	165
	Evolutionary synthesis models for galaxy transformation in clusters	169
	The gaseous Halo of the Virgo Cluster Galaxy NGC 4569	173
	Infrared galaxies in compact groups	177
	The influence of mergings on galaxy evolution	181
	Collisions and mergers of disk galaxies: Hydrodynamics of star forming gas	185
	On the nature of high luminosity ULIRGs	189
	Merging of low-mass systems and the origin of the fundamental plane	193
	Evolution and destruction of bars	197
	M51 revisited: A genetic algorithm approach of its interaction history	201
	The gigantic interacting galaxy NGC 6872	205
	Probing the physics of interacting galaxies	209
	I Zwicky 1: Decomposition and dynamics of the nearby QSO host	213
	The warped gas and dust lane in NGC 3718	217
	Dynamical evolution of galactic disks driven by interaction with a satellite	221
	The system of the Milky Way, LMC and SMC	225
	Outer bulge and in-plane bar of the milky way	229
	A new challenge: Bar formation and secular evolution in lenticular galaxies	233
	Bar dissolution in non-spherical halos	237
	What can biologists say about galaxy evolution?	241
	What determines galactic evolution? (Discussion)	245
	Galactic Centers
	Formation and evolution of galactic nuclei, black holes (Review)	257
	How black holes turn cusps into cores	267
	Probing the nuclear activity with supermassive black holes	271
	The dynamical interaction of AGN with their galaxian environments	275
	Ground-based mid infra-red observations of nearby starburst and AGN galaxies	279
	Dwarf Galaxies
	Dwarf galaxies: Important clues to galaxy formation (Review)	285
	Star formation histories of local group dwarf galaxies	295
	The extended structure of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy	301
	Kinematics and stellar populations of 17 dwarf early-type galaxies	305
	Kinematics of diffuse elliptical galaxies	309
	The dynamical structure of dwarf elliptical galaxies	313
	Spectrophotometric investigations of the blue compact dwarf galaxy Mrk 35	317
	New insights into the photometric structure of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies from a deep Near-Infrared study	321
	Photometric studies of very metal-deficient blue compact dwarf galaxies: the exponential ionized gas halo of I Zw 18	325
	The effect of star formation on the evolution of Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies	329
	X-ray emission from dwarf galaxies: IC 2574 revisited	333
	Low-mass cluster galaxies: A cornerstone of galaxy evolution	337
	H[alpha] regions in FCC046 and FCC207	341
	Optical and NIR investigation of a sample of tidal dwarf candidates	345
	[omega] Cen--An ultra compact dwarf galaxy?	349
	Searching for an intrinsic stellar population in compact high-velocity clouds	353
	Understanding dwarf galaxies as galactic building blocks (Discussion)	357
	Disk Galaxies
	Formation and evolution of disk galaxies (Review)	369
	Disk galaxy evolution: from the Milky Way to high-redshift disks (Review)	381
	Local galactic evolution	391
	Scaling relations of field spirals at intermediate redshift	396
	X-ray, Ly[alpha] and H[alpha] emission from simulated disk galaxies	399
	The origin of the correlation between the spin parameter and the baryon fraction of galactic disks	403
	Tidal torques and galactic warps	407
	Kinematics of disc galaxies using photometrically calibrated N-body models	413
	Isolated and mildly interacting spiral galaxies: Rotation curves and metallicities	417
	The constraints on dark matter distribution in the isolated spiral NGC 4414	421
	Massive disks in low surface brightness galaxies	425
	The mass to light ratio and the initial mass function in galactic discs	429
	The SFR and IMF of the galactic disk	433
	On the evolution of the SFR in galactic disks	437
	Properties of star formation in the spiral arms of barred galaxies	441
	Application of the global modal approach to the spiral galaxies	445
	Investigation of colour gradients in non-active and active spiral galaxies	449
	Generation of warps by accretion flows	453
	Comparing peanut-shaped 'bulges' to N-body simulations and orbital calculations	459
	3D global simulations of galactic magnetic fields and gas flows	463
	Magnetic fields and radio polarization of barred galaxies	467
	Chemical Models
	Galactic evolution along the hubble sequence	473
	CNO evolution: Milky way, dwarf galaxies and DLAs	477
	The bends in the slopes of radial abundance gradients in the disks of spiral galaxies--do they exist?	481
	Chemical enrichment in the early galaxy	485
	The chemical composition of the halo and evolutionary problems	489
	Galaxy evolution: Inhomogeneous halo collapse	493
	Inhomogeneous chemical evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies	497
	Search for and study of extremely metal-deficient galaxies	501
	Chemical evolution of Elliptical Galaxies and the ICM	505
	The ages and metallicities of ellipticals from continuum colors	509
	Gas-Phase Processes and Chemodynamical Models
	Galaxies as complex systems (Review)	515
	Gas phase processes affecting galactic evolution (Review)	525
	Star formation in a multi-phase interstellar medium	539
	A comparison of chemical and chemodynamical models	543
	The chemo-dynamical evolution of a disk galaxy	547
	On the origin of high-eccentricity halo stars	551
	Chemical and dynamical evolution of spiral galaxies	555
	The origin of elliptical galaxies inferred from their metallicity gradients	559
	Feedback and late star formation in elliptical galaxies	563
	Chemodynamical gas flow cycles and their influence on the chemical evolution of dwarf irregular galaxies	567
	A multi-phase chemo-dynamical SPH code for galaxy evolution. Testing the code	571
	Star formation in a multi-phase ISM	575
	Expanding shells in low and high density environments	579
	Clues to starburst evolution: The tale of dense gas	583
	Between simple and chemodynamical models of galaxies (Discussion)	587
	Spectrum Synthesis Models
	Chemically consistent evolutionary synthesis	599
	On the self-consistency of evolutionary synthesis models	603
	Star formation histories across hubble types	607
	Empirical population synthesis for 74 blue compact galaxies	611
	The resolved red giant branches of E/S0 galaxies	615
	From spirals to low surface brightness galaxies	619
	The properties of low surface brightness galaxies	623
	Photometric evolution of N-body + SPH + star formation simulations of isolated disc galaxies	627
	The stellar content of a prototype double barred galaxy	631
	UV and optical spectral properties in early-type galaxies	635
	High resolution spectra of galaxies	639
	Evolutionary synthesis modelling of young star clusters in merging galaxies	643
	Dust-enshrouded super star-clusters	647
	Observational Tasks
	New aspects for new generation telescopes (Discussion)	653
	The next generation stellar population synthesis library	663
	Galaxies at the detection limits of deep X-ray surveys	667
	Towards a new galaxy template library for multi-colour classification	671
	Spectro-morphology of galaxies	675
	3D spectroscopy of z - 1 galaxies with Gemini	679
	Author Index	683