Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust

1. Bar Formation by Galaxy-Galaxy Interactions

   • Masafumi Noguchi

   Pages 231-240

2. Triggering AGNs — Interactions or Bars?

   • Jeremy Lim, Cheng-Yu Kuo, Ya-Wen Tang, Jenny Greene, Paul T. P. Ho

   Pages 241-250

3. Triggered Star Formation: From Large to Small Scales

   • Jan Palous, Pavel Jachym, Sona Ehlerova

   Pages 251-254

4. Investigation of Age and Metallicity Gradients in Spiral Galaxies

   • Barbara Cunow

   Pages 255-260

5. Secular Evolution and the Growth of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies

   • John Kormendy, Mark E. Cornell

   Pages 261-280

6. Bars and Lenses in Spiral Galaxies: Clues for Secular Evolution

   • Leslie K. Hunt, Carlo Giovanardi, Matthew A. Malkan

   Pages 281-290

7. Evolution and Impact of Bars over the Last Nine Gyr: Early Results from GEMS

   • Shardha Jogee, Fabio D. Barazza, Hans-Walter Rix, James Davies, Inge Heyer, Marco Barden et al.

   Pages 291-300

8. First Phylogenetic Analyses of Galaxy Evolution

   • Didier Fraix-Burnet

   Pages 301-305

9. A Unified Picture of Disk Galaxies Where Bars, Spirals and Warps Result from the Same Fundamental Causes

   • Daniel Pfenniger, Yves Revaz

   Pages 307-316

10. On the Generation of the Hubble Sequence Through an Internal Secular Dynamical Process

    • Xiaolei Zhang

    Pages 317-328

11. The Angular Momentum Problem and the Formation of Bulgeless Galaxies

    • Elena D’Onghia, Andreas Burkert

    Pages 329-334

12. Disks Evolution in a Cosmological Framework

    • Anna Curir, Paola Mazzei, Giuseppe Murante

    Pages 335-340

13. Galaxy Formation and the Cosmological Angular Momentum Problem

    • Andreas M. Burkert, Elena D’Onghia

    Pages 341-358

14. The Problems with Galaxy Formation

    • George Lake

    Pages 359-376

15. The Interplay between Bars and Dark Matter Halos

    • Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

    Pages 377-388

16. Recent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of Galaxy Morphology and Classification

    • Giovanni G. Fazio, Michael A. Pahre, Steven P. Willner, Matthew L. N. Ashby

    Pages 389-404

17. Using Bars as Signposts of Galaxy Evolution at High and Low Redshifts

    • Kartik Sheth, Karin Menendez-Delmestre, Nick Scoville, Tom Jarrett, Linda Strubbe, Michael W. Regan et al.

    Pages 405-414

18. The Vimos Vlt Deep Survey: Redshift Distribution of a I _AB ≤ 24 Sample, and the Effect of Environment on Galaxy Evolution

    • Olivier Le Fevre, O. Ilbert, C. Marinoni, S. Paltani, G. Vettolani, L. Tresse et al.

    Pages 415-422

19. An HSTACS/WFC Hα Imaging Survey of Nearby Galaxies

    • Rolf A. Jansen

    Pages 423-428

20. HST MID-UV Imaging of Nearby Galaxies

    • Rogier A. Windhorst, Violet A. Taylor, Rolf A. Jansen

    Pages 429-440

THE EDITORS: DAVID L. BLOCK AND KENNETH C. FREEMAN (SOC CO-CHAIRS), IVANIO PUERARI, ROBERT GROESS AND LIZ K. BLOCK 1. Harvard College Observatory, 1958 The past century has truly brought about an explosive period of growth and discovery for the physical sciences as a whole, and for astronomy in particular. Galaxy morphology has reached a renaissance . . The year: 1958. The date: October 1. The venue: Harvard College Observatory. The lecturer: Walter Baade. With amazing foresight, Baade penned these words: "Young stars, supergiants and so on, make a terrific splash - lots of light. The total mass of these can be very small compared to the total mass of the system". Dr Layzer then asked the key question: " . . . the discussion raises the point of what this classification would look like if you were to ignore completely all the Population I, and just focus attention on the Population II . . . " We stand on the shoulders of giants. The great observer E. E. Barnard, in his pioneering efforts to photograph the Milky Way, devoted the major part of his life to identifying and numbering dusty "holes" and dust lanes in our Milky Way. No one could have dreamt that the pervasiveness of these cosmic dust masks (not only in our Galaxy but also in galaxies at high redshift) is so great, that their "penetration" is truly one of the pioneering challenges from both space-borne telescopes and from the ground.

• Accretion
• Dark matter
• Gravity
• Redshift
• Universe

• University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  David L. Block, Robert Groess

• Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico

  Ivânio Puerari

• The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  Kenneth C. Freeman

• Rand Afrikaans University (Soweto), South Africa

  Elizabeth K. Block

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