Comets to Cosmology
Proceedings of the Third IRAS Conference, Held at Queen Mary College, University of London, July 6-10, 1987
Published on 31. March 1988
Book
Hardback
X, 415 pages
978-3-540-19052-3 (ISBN)
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These proceedings are concerned with discoveries from the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite IRAS including follow-up projects in theoretical and observational astronomy. In particular, they stress the solar system results from IRAS. A huge range of astronomical topics is addressed including asteroids, comets, dust in the solar neighbourhood, young stars, old stars, the interstellar medium, and the Galactic cosmic background at various wavelengths.
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The impact of IRAS on asteroidal science.- Iras observations of asteroids.- Models for infrared emission from zodiacal dust.- Separating the solar system and galactic contributions to the diffuse infrared background.- Zodiacal dust properties as deduced by inversion of iras observations.- The infrared spectrum of Comet P/Halley.- Halley's Comet.- The albedo of large refractory particles from p/Tempel 2.- Infrared studies of solar system bodies.- The large scale distribution of infrared radiation in our Galaxy.- Large scale structure of dust and gas in the Galaxy.- Model for the galactic infrared emission.- The nature of the Galactic bulge.- A procedure for distinguishing thermal and synchrotron components of the radio continuum emission of the Galactic disc.- Infrared cirrus.- Infrared emission from the solar neighborhood.- A post-iras interstellar dust model.- The excitation of the infrared emission from visual reflection nebulae.- Extended infrared emission near stars.- Beyond the asymptotic giant branch.- The study of star formation with IRAS.- The luminosity functions of taurus and chamaeleon.- Infrared spectra of young stellar objects.- High luminosity galaxies in the IRAS survey.- Starbursts: Nature and environment.- Star formation in normal galaxies.- The association between stellar bars and enhanced activity in the central kiloparsec of spiral galaxies.- Global properties of star formation in spiral galaxies.- Radio and optical studies of a complete sample of IRAS galaxies.- Optical and far infrared properties of a 60µm flux limited sample of IRAS galaxies.- IRAS observations of normal galaxies: The UGC redshift sample.- Separation of nuclear and disk components in IRAS observations of spiral galaxies.- A post IRAS view of active galaxies.- Far infrared emission of type 2 seyferts.- Starbursts in interacting galaxies.- The role of bars in starburst galaxies.- Are starbursts the result of the fine tuning of dynamical timescales?.- IRAS observations of an optical sample of interacting galaxies.- Cosmological background radiation in the infrared.- Rocket observation of the diffuse infrared radiation.- Spectrum of the cosmic microwave background.- From star formation to galaxy formation.- Galaxies as tracers of the mass distribution.- Young galaxies.- Infrared and optical observations of distant radio galaxies.- A very deep IRAS survey at the North Ecliptic Pole.- Cosmological evolution of starburst galaxies and IRAS counts at 60 µm.- The IRAS dipole.- A redshift survey of IRAS galaxies.- The impact of infrared astronomy on the distance scale.- Conference summary.