Galactic bulges

Kluwer Academic

1993

xix, 466 p.

978-0792324256

Review of the Galactic Bulge / I. R. King -- General surveys of the Bulge in the infrared / I. S. Glass -- Long-period variables and carbon stars in the Galactic Bulge / P. Whitelock -- OH/IR stars as tracers of Galactic populations / H. J. Habing -- Kinematics and dynamics of OH/IR stars / H. Dejonghe -- Bulge K and M giants / D. M. Terndrup -- The globular cluster and horizontal branch content of the Bulge and Halo / G. W. Preston -- The global properties of planetary nebulae in the Galactic Bulge / G. Stasinska -- Stellar population synthesis / N. Arimoto -- Formation and evolution of stars in galactic bulges / A. Renzini -- The stellar population of the inner 200 parsecs / R. M. Rich -- Dynamics of the Galactic Bulge / T. de Zeeuw -- Kinematics of extragalactic bulges: evidence that some bulges are really disks / J. Kormendy -- Photometric properties of extragalactic bulges / F. Bertola -- What is the connection between ellipticals and bulges? / M. Franx -- Summary: achievements and open questions / K. C. Freeman -- 3-D gas dynamics in triaxial systems / D. Friedli and S. Udry -- Dynamics of the Galactic Bulge from gas motions / O. E. Gerhard and J. Binney -- The Bulge of the Milky Way and cosmic rays / F. Jansen, K.-P. Wenzel, D. O'-Sullivan and A. Thompson -- Rapid gas fueling in a barred potential by self-gravitational instability / K. Wada and A. Habe -- MgI triplet lines in composite systems / B. Barbuy, R. E. de Souza and S. dos Anjos; Hubble Space Telescope observations of Baade's window / W. A. Baum, R. M. Light, J. Holtzman, D. Hunter, T. Kreidl, E. J. O'Neil, Jr. and E. J. Groth -- Long period variable AGB stars in a field towards the Galactic Bulge / J. A. D. L. Blommaert, A. G. A. Brown, H. J. Habing, W. E. C. J. van der Veen and Y. K. Ng -- Preliminary results of the two micron galactic survey / X. Calbet, T. Mahoney, P. Hammersley, F. Garzon and M. Selby -- Metallicity of two stars in Baade's window / S. Castro, B. Barbuy and T. Richtler -- The Bulge/Halo interface: rotational kinematics from [Fe/H]=-3.0 to Solar / P. Harding and H. Morrison -- Detectability of Bulge stars / M. Hernandez-Pajares, R. Cubarsi, J. Sanz-Subirana and J. M. Juan-Zornoza -- The Bulge-Halo transition region / R. Ibata and G. Gilmore -- SIO maser survey of the Bulge IRAS sources / H. Izumiura, T. Ono, I. Yamamura, K. Okumura, T. Onaka, S. Deguchi, N. Ukita, O. Hashimoto and Y. Nakada -- Cross-correlation of the two micron galactic survey with IRAS / T. Mahoney, F. Garzon, X. Calbet, P. Hammersley and M. J. Selby -- Microlensing towards the Galactic Bulge / A. Udalski, M. Szymanski, J. Kaluzny, M. Kubiak, M. Mateo, G. Preston, W. Krzeminski and B. Paczynski -- TiO bands in composite systems / A. Milone and B. Barbuy -- Kinematics of the Galactic Bulge: the velocity ellipsoid / D. Minniti -- Comparing M and K giants in the Bulge / H. Morrison, P. Harding and P. McGregor; PG3, a field in the Bulge of our Galaxy: description of a galactic model / Y. K. Ng, G. Bertelli, C. Chiosi, A. Bressan, H. Habing and R. S. Le Poole -- Star clusters as tracers of galactic subsystems / B. Barbuy, E. Bica and S. Ortolani -- Stellar population synthesis in the Bulge of our Galaxy / A. C. Robin -- CCD BVRI photometry of stars in the Galactic Bulge / A. Ruelas-Mayorga, S. West and A. Peimbert-Torres -- The IR stellar population around the Galactic Center / A. Ruelas-Mayorga and P. Teague -- Studies of the galactic bulges using the post-theoretical mass method / D. M. Suran and N. A. Popescu -- A study of the abundance distributions along the minor axis of the Galactic Bulge / N. D. Tyson and R. M. Rich -- The UV and optical reddening law to the Galactic Bulge and CNO abundances in Bulge planetary nebulae / N. A. Walton, M. J. Barlow and R. E. S. Clegg -- Do the OH/IR stars within 100 pc of the Galactic Center belong to the disk population? / A. E. Whitford -- Dynamics of OH/IR stars in the Inner Galactic Bulge / A. Winnberg, M. Lindqvist and H. J. Habing -- Synthetic photometric indices for Galactic globular clusters / M. L. Malagnini, L. E. Pasinetti Fracassini, S. Covino and A. Buzzoni -- HB morphology and integrated spectra of globular clusters: a theoretical approach / M. L. Malagnini, G. Bono, C. Morossi, L. Palone and E. Brocato -- Proper motions: what dynamical information can we easily extract from them? / M. Wybo and H. Dejonghe; Kinematical features of the main Bulge in a multi-component galactic model / R. Cubarsi and M. Hernandez-Pajares -- Point-axial mass distribution in the external Galactic Bulge / J. Sanz-Subirana and J. M. Juan-Zornoza -- The contribution of the Galactic Bulge to the Galactic rotation curve / I. V. Petrovskaya and S. Ninkovic -- The construction of Stackel potentials for galactic dynamical modelling / P. Batsleer and H. Dejonghe -- Two-integral distribution functions for axisymmetric galaxies / C. Hunter and E. Qian -- Two-integral models with almost circular orbits / P. Batsleer and H. Dejonghe -- Simple models of galactic bulges / N. W. Evans -- Generalized isochrone models for spherical stellar systems / G. G. Kuzmin and U.-I. K. Veltmann -- Bulge and disk: a simple self-gravitating model / S. A. Kutuzov and L. P. Ossipkov -- Orbital elements of different Galactic population objects / L. P. Ossipkov and S. A. Kutuzov -- Orbital structure of triaxial equilibrium models of various shapes / S. Udry and L. Martinet -- Globally stable equilibria of collisionless self-gravitating matter / H. Wiechen and H. J. Ziegler -- Mixing in collisionfree systems / H. J. Ziegler and H. Wiechen -- On the formation mechanisms for ellipticals and bulges / A. M. Fridman and V. L. Polyachenko -- Analytical models for rotating and flattened perturbations in bulges / H. Dejonghe and P. Vauterin -- Tumbling instability in oblate rotating stellar systems / E. Szuszkiewicz, J. C. B. Papaloizou, A. J. Allen and P. L. Palmer; Investigating a self-consistent Galactic potential with central mass concentration / H. Hasan, J. A. Sellwood and C. A. Norman -- Delayed formation of bulges by dynamical processes / D. Pfenniger -- Peanut shaped bars / J. A. Sellwood -- The influence of a halo on the evolution of elliptical configurations / F. Theede and K. O. Thielheim -- SPH simulations of the chemical and dynamical evolution of the Galactic Bulge / T. Tsujimoto, K. Nomoto, T. Shigeyama and Y. Ishimaru -- Primeval starburst and bulge formation / K. Wada and A. Habe -- Secular evolutionary trends in ellipticals and bulges due to mergers / T. K. Chatterjee -- Analytical models for ellipticals and bulges with rotation / S. N. Nuritdinov -- Bulges and ellipticals: can formation mechanisms be the same? / S. N. Nuritdinov -- The effect of a bar on the kinematics of a central ring structure in NGC 4736 / P. Pismis and E. Moreno -- Kinematic signatures of triaxial stellar systems / R. Arnold, T. de Zeeuw and C. Hunter -- Colour gradients in galaxy bulges / M. Balcells and R. F. Peletier -- Velocity dispersions and metallicities of box-shaped galaxies / R. E. de Souza, S. dos Anjos and B. Barbuy -- Photometric properties of box-shaped galaxies / S. dos Anjos and R. E. de Souza -- Hot stellar populations in the M31 bulge / H. C. Ferguson and A. F. Davidsen -- Line profiles in the bulge of NGC 7217 / K. Kuyken and M. Merrifield -- On the photometric characteristics of ellipticals and bulges of spirals in interacting systems / V. P. Reshetnikov; The counter-rotating twin disks in NGC 4550 / H.-W. Rix, M. Franx, D. Fisher and G. Illingworth -- Stellar kinematica evidence for massive black holes revisited / H.-W. Rix -- Photometric and kinematic properties of disky elliptical galaxies / C. Scorza -- Abundance jump in the inner bulges of galaxies / O. K. Silchenko -- Stellar population in the nuclei of early type galaxies / O. K. Silchenko -- On the difference in formation history between bulges and ellipticals / B. Rocca-Volmerange and O. K. Silchenko -- The velocity fields of elliptical galaxies: constraints on intrinsic shapes / T. S. Statler and A. M. Fry -- Triaxiality in the bulges of spirals: dynamical implications / A. M. Varela, E. Simonneau and C. Munoz-Tunon -- Extracting kinematics from spectra: a new method and NGC 4406 / T. B. Williams and P. Saba -- Nuclear molecular gas in the Virgo Cluster SO galaxy NGC 4710 / J. M. Wrobel and J. D. P. Kenney -- IR imaging of spiral galaxy bulges / D. Zaritsky, M. Rieke and H.-W. Rix -- A triaxial model for the bulge of NGC 4697 / W. W. Zeilinger, M. L. Winsall and H. Dejonghe.

In the early summer of '89 a very informal meeting on the bulge of our Galaxy was held in Leiden. During that meeting Michael Rich proposed to hold a more properly organised symposium on "Galactic Bulges" in a few years time. After some discussion a Scientific Organising Committee was founded and after some manoeuvring a chairman was chosen, a local organiser was assigned and two editors were given instructions. A good thing about the location of the meeting was that Ghent is a very beautiful city and had never before hosted an IAU symposium. It could be that this, plus the fact that he is a very keen amateur astronomer led H. M. the King of Belgium to offer his patronage to the meeting - an offer that we gratefully and - we hope - gracefully accepted. The meeting took place at a resort some 15 km outside Ghent. Most participants were housed on the premises - a very convenient situation. This feeling of togeth­ erness made up for the small shortcomings of the lecture room, which is normally used as a sports hall. The weather was fair, except on the day of the barbecue when pouring rain forced us to go inside.

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