New Extragalactic Perspectives in the New South Africa: Proceedings of the International Conference on “Cold Dust and Galaxy Morphology” held in ... (Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 209) - Hardcover
The date: September 30, 1880 The place: A private observatory in Hastings-on-Hudson Profession of the observer: A medical doctor The instrument: An l1-inch Clark refractor. The significance of that night marked one of the truly great turning points in the development of astronomical techniques: Dr Henry Draper, a wealthy New York medical doctor, had secured the first photograph of a nebula: a 51-minute exposure on a dry gelatinobromide plate showing the wispy nebulosity of the Orion Nebula. By March 1882, Draper had secured an exposure of 137 minutes, showing far richer detail of both bright and dark features. The rest is histapy. The photographic era heralded in a universe where hints of the presence of cosmic dust were strongly alluded to: from star-forming regions such as Messier 17, to the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, to the striking dark finger in the Cone Nebula, to the magnificent dark bands in the plane of our Milky Way. "Historically, astromomers from the very beginning have been afraid of dust.
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What is the nature and composition of the dust grains responsible for the visual extinction in our Galaxy and in other galaxies beyond? What are the ranges in temperature of dust grains? Can these be less than 2.7K? Can the distribution of cold grains be studied optically at unprecedented arcsecond resolution? How does the presence of dust affect the morphology of a galaxy? Is this new dust-penetrated view bringing us to the verge of a breakthrough in understanding the connection between galaxy morphology and the underlying physics of galaxies? How large are the amounts of cold molecular hydrogen gas and cold dust in galactic disks? These are some of the key issues addressed in this book, which takes the postgraduate reader and professional researcher to the cutting edge of this rapidly developing field. Unique features of the book include fourteen in-depth invited review papers and twenty-six pages of discussion transcribed from a television tape. The contributions reflect the entire proceedings of an intensive one week International Conference on cold dust and galaxy morphology held in Johannesburg, South Africa, during January 1996.
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- PublisherSpringer
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0792342232
- ISBN 13 9780792342236
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages676
- EditorBlock David L., Greenberg J. Mayo
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