Warped disks and inclined rings around galaxies

Author(s)

• Casertano, Stefano
• Sackett, Penny D.
• Briggs, Franklin H.

Bibliographic Information

Warped disks and inclined rings around galaxies

edited by Stefano Casertano, Penny D. Sackett, Franklin H. Briggs

Cambridge University Press, 1991

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Most galaxies are in clusters, where tidal interactions are not uncommon. Tidal and dynamical interaction in galaxies are of importance in studying evolution. A large amount of data has been collected on dust-lane ellipticals, polar ring galaxies, spirals with extended warps, and galaxies with inclined HI rings or unusual 'tails'. This book is a record of a meeting which was held at the University of Pittsburgh. It provided an informal, yet focused environment for the interaction of astronomers who have addressed these questions with a wide variety of skills, techniques and points of view.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Workshop participants
• Group photograph
• 1. The intergalactic HI supply F. Briggs
• 2. Neutral gas infall into NGC 628 J. Kamphuis and F. Briggs
• 3. VLA HI observations of the radio galaxy Centaurus A J. M. van der Hulst, J. H. van Gorkom, A. D. Haschick and A. D. Tubbs
• 4. A geometric model for the dust-band of Centaurus A R. A. Nicholson, K. Taylor and J. Bland
• 5. The circumgalactic ring of gas in Leo S. E. Schneider
• 6. Using gas kinematics to measure M/L in elliptical galaxies T. de Zeeuw
• 7. Velocity fields of disks in triaxial potentials P. J. Teuben
• 8. Modeling the atomic gas in NGC 4278 J. F. Lees
• 9. A few statistics from the catalog of polar-ring galaxies B. C. Whitmore
• 10. Dynamics of polar rings L. S. Sparke
• 11. Mergers and the structure of disk galaxies L. Hernquist
• 12. Formation of polar rings H.-W. Rix and N. Katz
• 13. Gas-dynamical models of settling disks D. Christodoulou and J. E. Tohline
• 14. Evolutionary processes affecting galactic accretion disks T. Steiman-Cameron
• 15. Particle simulations of polar rings T. Quinn
• 16. A bending instability in prolate stellar systems D. Merritt
• 17. The Milky Way: lopsided or barred? K. Kuijken
• 18. Merger origin of starburst galaxies L. Hernquist
• 19. Warped and flaring HI disks A. Bosma
• 20. Behaviour of warps in extended disks F. Briggs and J. Kamphuis
• 21. Observational constraints for the explanation of warps E. Battaner, E. Florido, M.-L. Sanchez-Saavedra and M. Prieto
• 22. Warps in S0s: observations versus theories G. Galletta
• 23. Warps and bulges J. Pitesky
• 24. Time evolution of galactic warps P. Hofner and L. S. Sparke
• 25. Are warps normal modes? S. Casertano
• 26. Disk warping in a slewing potential E. C. Ostriker
• 27. Concluding discussion Moderator: K. C. Freeman
• Name index
• Object index
• Subject index.

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Details

• NCID: BA12730671
• ISBN:
  • 0521401844
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 291 p.
• Size: 25 cm