How does the Galaxy Work? A Galactic Tertulia with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Alfaro, Emilio J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Pérez, Enrique (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Franco, José (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Σειρά: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 315
• Θέματα: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

 The Milky Way: Four Centuries of Discovery of the Galaxy -- Hi Clouds Beyond the Galactic Disk -- The Wham Northern Sky Survey and the Nature of the Warm Ionized Medium in the Galaxy -- The Structure of Galactic Hydrogen on the Largest Scales -- The Bu-Fcrao Galactic Ring Survey -- The View of the Interstellar Medium with the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey -- Dark Hydrogen in the Galactic Plane -- Diffuse Infrared Excess Features in the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey -- The Oxygen Abundance in Our Galaxy -- Ionization of the Galactic Halo -- Diffuse Ionized Gas and the Disk-Halo Interaction in Spiral Galaxies -- Are All the DIGs the Same? -- Radio Halos in Star Forming Galaxies -- Brackett-? Line Survey of the Ionized Hydrogen in the Galactic Plane -- Leaky H II Regions and Heliumionization in the Reynolds Layer -- Reynolds Layers in Nearby Galaxies: The Face-On View -- Volume Filling Factors of the Dig -- Latest Results of the Sethi Survey at Arecibo -- Job Accomplished? The Escape of Ionizing Radiation from the Disks of Spiral Galaxies -- Modeling the Diffuse Ionized Gas with Cloudy -- Diffuse Ionized Medium Panel Discussion -- Absorption Line Studies in the Halo -- Dynamical Evolution of High Velocity Clouds in the Galactic Halo -- Pulsar Bow Shocks as Probes of Warm Neutral Gas -- Highly Ionized HVCs Towards Pks 2155–304: Galactic or Extragalactic? -- Towards an Understanding of the Dynamics of the Milky Way -- Fuse Observations of Ovi Emission from the Galactic Fountain -- Pattern Speeds of Three Spirals Using Co and the Tremaine-Weinberg Method -- Gas Infall Onto the Superthin Ic 2233 -- High-Velocity Gas Observed Towards the Shajn 147 Supernova Remnant -- Hot Gas in the Galaxy -- Bubbles and Superbubbles -- The Chandra View of M101: What Can We Learn About the Milky Way? -- Fuse Observations of the Vela Supernova Remnant -- Circumstellar Interaction in Young Radio Supernovae -- Chandra Archive of Nearby Galaxies. I. Normal Galaxies -- Hi Shells in the 2nd Galactic Quadrant -- Key Science Programs for the Spear Mission -- Chandra Archive of Nearby Galaxies. II. Galaxies with Nuclear Activity -- Heating and Cooling in the ISM -- The Galactic Centre and Its Black Hole -- Stellar Metallicities and the Formation of the Galactic Bulge -- The Galactic Bar -- Stellar Distribution in the Galactic Disk from NIR Color-Magnitude Diagrams -- Stellar Clusters in the Nucleus of Galaxie -- Massive Young Clusters -- Deep Multicolor NIR Surver of the Galactic Plane -- Tracing the History of the Galaxy with Globular Clusters -- Tidal Debris in the Galactic Halo -- Star Formation in High-Redshift ISM -- Gas Inflow in Spiral Galaxies from Kiloparsec to Parsec Scale -- Open Clusters as Tracers of the Cygnus ARM -- Triaxial Bulge and In-Plane Bar of the Milky Way -- Tidal Shocks on Globular Clusters -- Evolution of Globular Cluster Populations in Compact Galaxy Groups -- Near IR Color-Magnitude Diagrams of Bulge Globular Clusters -- Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way and Other Spiral Galaxies -- The Origin of Galactic Magnetic Fields -- Magnetic Turbulence in the WIM -- Magnetic Fields and Spiral Structure -- Calculations of the Dynamo Coefficients in Galactic Magnetic Fields with Shear -- Galactic Magnetic Fields, from Radio Polarimetry of the WIM -- Radio Polarimetry in the Sothern Galactic Plane Survey -- The Truncation of the Stellar Disk of the Milky Way: A Magnetic Effect? -- The Parker Instability -- 3D MHD Modeling of the Galaxy -- The Frequency Evolution of Interstellar Pulse Broadening from Radio Pulsars -- 3D HD and MHD Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of the Global and Local ISM -- The Turbulent Interstellar Medium: Insights and Questions from Numerical Models -- Hi: Temperatures, Magnetism, Turbulence, Morphology -- Cosmic Rays and ? Rays in the Galaxy -- Probing the Disk-Halo Connection Through the Local Interstellar Chimney -- The Spear (Spectroscopy of Emission from Astrophysical Radiation) Mission -- Dense Gas Contours Surrounding the Local Cavity: Comparison with the Soft X-Ray Background Emission Map -- Fuse Observations of the Hot Post-AGB Star ZNG 1 in the Globular Cluster M5 -- 3D Simulations of the Local Bubble: How Much Ovi Can We Expect? -- XMM-Newton Observations of the Local Bubble and the Galactic Halo -- The Temperature of Massive Stars -- Fuse Survey Of The Local Interstellar Medium -- Diffuse Ovi Emission Towards the Loop I Superbubble -- The Local Bubble: Where is the ?300,000 K Gas? -- Is the Local Bubble Dead? -- Closing Remarks.