Outskirts of Galaxies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Knapen, Johan H. (Editor), Lee, Janice C. (Editor), Gil de Paz, Armando (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 434
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

This book consists of invited reviews written by world-renowned experts on the subject of the outskirts of galaxies, an upcoming field which has been understudied so far. These regions are faint and hard to observe, yet hide a tremendous amount of information on the origin and early evolution of gal...

Table of Contents:

• Outer regions of the Milky Way
• Resolved stellar populations as tracers of outskirts
• Star formation in the outskirts of galaxies
• Disk fading and regrowth in early-type galaxies
• Imaging haloes and disks
• Outer regions of elliptical galaxies
• ISM in outskirts (HI, CO, etc)
• Observing and modelling metallicities
• The outer regions seen at high redshifts
• Evolution of outer structure
• Constraints from numerical modelling.-Accretion: Theory and modelling
• Future prospects: Deep imaging of galaxy outskirts using telescopes large and small.