Progress towards an understanding of the dynamics and interactions of galaxies has been spurred on more than ever by a wealth of new observations and numerical experiments. The Heidelberg Conference 1989, the papers of which are collected in this volume, was extremely successful in presenting a synoptic view of the field in all its aspects: galaxy interactions in the early universe and in recent times, interactions of our galaxy and its neighbours, dynamical problems of elliptical and disk galaxies, groups and clusters, starburst and nuclear activity triggered by interactions, merger scenarios, and numerical experiments. Researchers and graduate students, specialists or not, will find here a complete overview of a rapidly growing field of astronomy.
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978-3-642-75273-5 (9783642752735)
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10.1007/978-3-642-75273-5
Schweitzer Klassifikation
I Interactions in the Early Universe.- II Our Galaxy and Interactions.- III Recent Interactions Between Galaxies.- IV M51 and Similar Systems of Galaxies.- V Star-Formation Bursts and the Interactions of Galaxies.- VI Numerical Experiments on Interacting Galaxies and Mergers.- VII Elliptical Galaxies.- VIII Infall.- IX Disk Galaxies.- X Other Problems of Galactic Dynamics.- XI Groups and Clusters of Galaxies.- XII Nuclear Activity of Galaxies and Interactions.- XIII Problems of Merger Scenarios.- List of Participants.- Index of Contributors.
