Overview
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David L. Block
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johanne, School of Computational and Applied Math, Wits, South Africa
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Kenneth C. Freeman
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Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
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Ivânio Puerari
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Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica,, Santa Maria Tonantzintla, Mexico
Contributions from over 40 astronomers from around the world Honors Ken Freeman, father of dark matter in galaxies and one of the most cited astronomers Contains over 200 color images
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (39 papers)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxxiv
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- David L. Block, Kenneth C. Freeman, Ivâo Puerari
Pages 23-44
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- Thomas Y. Steiman-Cameron
Pages 45-58
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- Richard Wielebinski, Rainer Beck
Pages 67-86
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- Mary E. Putman, M. Ryan Joung, Jana Grcevich, Fabian Heitsch
Pages 87-96
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- Daniel Espada, S. Martin, P.-Y. Hsieh, P.T.P. Ho, S. Matsushita, Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro et al.
Pages 97-104
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- Jayanne English, Jason Fiege, Theresa Wiegert, Baerbel Koribalski, Wolfgang Kerzendorf, Kenneth C. Freeman
Pages 105-112
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- Robert Groess, David L. Block, Giovanni G. Fazio
Pages 113-120
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- Ivânio Puerari, David L. Block, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Frédéric Bournaud
Pages 121-128
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- Ruben J. Díaz, Damián Mast, Germán Gimeno, Horacio Dottori, Irapuan Rodrigues, María Paz Agüero et al.
Pages 129-138
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- Petri Väisänen, Zara Randriamanakoto, Erkki Kankare, Seppo Mattila, Stuart Ryder
Pages 147-152
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- John E. Beckman, Leonel Gutiérrez, Peter Erwin, Ruyman Azzollini, Inma Martínez-Valpuesta
Pages 169-186
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- Maarten Baes, Dimitri Gadotti, Joris Verstappen, Ilse De Looze, Jacopo Fritz, Edgardo Vidal Pérez et al.
Pages 187-194
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- Isabel Pérez, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, A. Zurita, G. Popping, Bard K. Gibson, Pierre Ocvirk
Pages 221-232
About this book
Various kinds of masks obscure our view of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as well as of other galaxies. Masks of interstellar dust affect our measurements within galaxies, on scales ranging from individual supernovae to the galaxies themselves. The “mass mask” (our inability to image mass rather than light) gives astronomers a very incomplete picture of the size and structure of galaxies themselves, because we cannot image the dark matter which provides most of the galactic mass. Another mass is the “dynamical mask”: as galaxies form, much dynamical information is lost in the birthing process. A new thrust in research is to retrieve such information by means of chemical tagging. About 50 astronomers flew into Namibia in April 2010, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor K.C. Freeman, Fellow of the Royal Society. At age 70, Freeman, a father of dark matter in galaxies, continues to be one of planet’s most highly cited astronomers. The current volume affords readers a unique perspective on galaxies by probing the thoughts of some of the greatest astronomers of our age. Contributions focus on galaxies from within our Local Group to those in our high redshift Universe. Approximately 40 in-depth review and contributed papers are contained in the volume, each written by an expert in the field. Two unusual features of the current volume include the “Star Country” of the San people of southern Africa as well as the introduction into astronomy of “The Treachery of Images” by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte. “Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see”, said Magritte. These words resonate the theme of the current volume “Galaxies and their Masks”, which is written at a level to be appreciated by both specialist and doctoral student alike.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johanne, School of Computational and Applied Math, Wits, South Africa
David L. Block
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Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
Kenneth C. Freeman
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Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica,, Santa Maria Tonantzintla, Mexico
Ivânio Puerari