The Evolution of Galaxies

I-Observational Clues

By: JosÃ© M. Vilchez (Editor), Grazyna Stasinska (Editor), Enrique PÃ©rez (Editor)

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Galaxies have a history. This has become clear from recent sky surveys, which have shown that distant galaxies, formed early in the life of the Universe, differ from the nearby ones.
New observational windows at ultraviolet, infrared and millimetric wavelengths (provided by ROSAT, IRAM, IUE, IRAS, ISO) have revealed that galaxies contain a wealth of components: very hot gas, atomic hydrogen, molecules, dust, dark matter. A significant advance is expected due to new instruments (VLT, FIRST, XMM) which will allow one to explore the most distant Universe.
Three Euroconferences have been planned to punctuate this new epoch in galactic research, bringing together specialists in various fields of Astronomy.

The first, held in Granada (Spain) in May 2000, addressed the observational clues.
The second will take place in October 2001 in St Denis de la R union (France) and will review the basic building blocks and small-scale processes in galaxy evolution.
The third will take place in July 2002 in Kiel (Germany) and will be devoted to the overall modelling of galaxy evolution.

This book contains the proceedings of the first conference. It is recommended to researchers and PhD students in Astrophysics.

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Foreword	p. 1
Introduction
Challenging Observations with the New Generation of Astronomical Facilities	p. 7
The Best Observables from the Point of View of a Model Maker	p. 17
The Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium
Molecular Gas in Galaxies	p. 29
The Structure of Molecular Clouds and Their Global Emission Properties	p. 39
Warm and Hot Gaseous Outflows in Dwarf Galaxies	p. 51
ISOCAM Observations of a Galaxy Merging Sequence	p. 55
The [CII] and [OI] Emission Lines in NGC 6946 and NGC 1313	p. 59
The Infrared Spectral Energy Distribution of Normal Star-Forming Galaxies	p. 63
Environmental Effects in Galaxies: Molecular GAs and Nuclear Activity	p. 67
Pressure and Density Gradients in H[subscript II] Regions	p. 71
Submillimeter CI and CO lines in Galaxies	p. 75
Modelling the Extinction Properties of Galaxies	p. 79
Density Structure of the Giant H[subscript II] Region NGC 2363	p. 83
What is the Behavior of the ISM in the SMC?	p. 87
Tracking Down the Processes that Shape the ISM: The Case of the Supergiant Shell in IC 2574	p. 91
CO-Observations of Post-Starburst Galaxies	p. 95
IRS: The Infrared Spectrograph on SIRTF	p. 97
A Spectral Diagnostic for Density-Bounded H[subscript II] Regions	p. 99
Mid-Infrared Spectral Decomposition Between Starbursts and AGNs	p. 101
Mid-Infrared Observations of NGC 1068 with ISOCAM	p. 103
Dust in the Dwarf Galaxy NGC 1569: Evidence for an Enhancement of Small Grains	p. 105
The Hi Morphology of Low-Mass Dwarf Galaxies	p. 107
Expanding Ionized Shells around Star Forming Regions in the Most Metal-Poor Blue Compact Galaxies	p. 109
Chemodynamical Mixing Cycles in Dwarf Galaxies	p. 111
Multiwalength Studies of Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds	p. 113
The Mid-Infrared Properties of Nearby Spiral Galaxies	p. 115
Evolution of the X-ray Luminosity and Metallicity of Starburst Blown Superbubbles	p. 117
Hot Gas in Starburst Galaxies - X-rays from NGC 2903 and NGC 4569	p. 119
The Effect of Violent Star Formation on the State of the Molecular Gas in M 82	p. 121
The Interstellar Medium and the Intergalactic Medium: Discussion of Session One	p. 125
Element Abundancies in Galaxies
From Stellar Spectra to Abundances	p. 137
Chemical Abundances in our Galaxy and Other Galaxies Derived from H[subscript II] Regions	p. 147
Abundance Anomalies in RGB Stars as Probes of Galactic Chemical Evolution	p. 157
The First Stars: Evolution and Nucleosynthesis	p. 161
Chemical Evidence for Evolution of Galaxies	p. 165
On the Cosmic Origins of Carbon and Nitrogen	p. 169
Abundances in Ellipticals Traced by Globular Clusters	p. 173
Abundance Analysis in the Near IR: Stellar Clusters and Galaxies	p. 177
On Ionisation Effects and Abundance Ratios in Damped Lyman-[alpha] Systems	p. 183
Can Giant H[subscript II] Regions Serve as Abundance Indicators at High Metallicities?	p. 189
Element Abundance Patterns of Metal-Poor Halo Stars	p. 193
Chemical Evolution Models of Local dSph Galaxies	p. 195
Empirical Abundance Determination for Ionized Nebulae	p. 197
PNe Abundances: Galactic Bulge Versus the Disc	p. 199
Oxygen Abundance Distribution in a New Well-Selected Sample of Blue Compact Galaxies	p. 201
Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds	p. 203
Chemical Evolution of Bulges	p. 205
[superscript 3]He and [superscript 7]Li in Low- and Intermediate Mass Stars	p. 207
Abundance Ratios in Hierarchical Galaxy Formation	p. 209
Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Halo	p. 211
Abundances in Galaxies: Discussion of Session Two	p. 213
Evolution of Stellar Populations
Stellar Populations in Local and Distant Galaxies	p. 221
Star Formation Histories of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies	p. 231
The Impact of Chemical Evolution on the Observable Properties of Stellar Populations	p. 241
Mid Infrared Colors of Early Type Galaxies	p. 251
The Stellar Populations of the Milky Way Satellites: The Early Universe through the Color-Magnitude Diagram	p. 255
Multiwavelength Analysis of Active Star Forming Regions: The Case of NGC 604	p. 259
Properties of the Z=2.73 Galaxy, MS1512-cB58	p. 263
NIR Census of the Stellar Content of Nearby Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies with HST	p. 267
White Dwarfs as Tracers of Galactic Evolution	p. 273
Wolf-Rayet Stellar Populations in the Most Metal-Deficient Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies	p. 277
Are there any Young Galaxies in Our Local Universe?	p. 281
The Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies	p. 287
Massive Star Populations and Chemical Abundances from New Models with Rotation	p. 291
Strong Balmer Lines in Old Ellipticals	p. 295
The IMF of Starbursts	p. 299
The Physical Relation between Age and Metallicity in Galaxies	p. 305
The Star Formation Histories of Blue Compact Galaxies: Where are the GAPs?	p. 309
Structure and Evolution of the Inner Milky Way Galaxy: Results from ISOGAL	p. 313
IZw 18: Ideal Laboratory for the Study of the Evolution of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies	p. 317
The Near-IR Calcium Triplet: Empirical Calibration and Stellar Populations Models	p. 319
Evolutionary Synthesis Models: Gamma-ray Emission	p. 321
H-band Observation of the Stellar Population in Seyfert Galaxies	p. 323
Ultraviolet Observations of Galaxies	p. 325
Quantitative Properties of the Local Star-Forming Galaxies	p. 327
Ultra-Deep Near Infrared Surface Photometry of Edge-on Disk Galaxies	p. 329
Old Stellar Populations in Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies	p. 331
Age Metallicity Relation in the LMC	p. 333
Stellar Ages and Metallicities Along the Bars of Barred Spirals	p. 335
Star-Formation in Ring Galaxies: Multi-Band Observations	p. 339
Do Luminous Elliptical Galaxies Have Young Disks?	p. 341
Age Constraints for Blue LSBGs	p. 343
Photometrical Constraints on the Age of IZw18	p. 345
Circumnuclear Ring of the Starburst Galaxy NGC 253. An Infrared View	p. 347
The Simultaneous Multiple Constraints of the IMF and SFR History in Star Formation Complexes	p. 349
The [lambda]4000A Break in Elliptical Galaxies	p. 351
Stellar Populations in BL Lac Type Objects	p. 353
Stellar Populations in Nuclei and Bulges of Early-Type Disk Galaxies: Ages and Magnesium-to-Iron Ratios	p. 355
Optical/Near-IR Colors of HII Galaxies: Super Stellar Clusters and the Underlying Galaxy	p. 357
The origin of the CMR in Virgo	p. 359
The Evolution of Stellar Populations: Discussion of Session Three	p. 361
Structure, Dynamics and Environment of Galaxies
The Role of Mergers in Galaxy Evolution	p. 371
Observational Constraints on the Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies	p. 383
Ram Pressure Stripping and Galaxy Orbits	p. 393
Ionizing the Diffuse Interstellar Medium in Late-Type Galaxies	p. 397
The History of Star Formation in Normal Late-Type Galaxies	p. 401
The Formation of Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in Interacting Systems: The Case of Arp 245 (NGC 2992/93)	p. 405
Kinematics of Gas and Stars in Gas-Rich Early-Type Galaxies	p. 409
ULIRGs: Tidal-induced Star Formation and Implications for SCUBA Sources	p. 413
Evolution of Galaxy Morphologies in Clusters	p. 417
NIR Properties of Isolated Spirals With and Without an AGN	p. 421
Searching for Tidal Tails in Galactic Dwarf Spheroidal Satellites	p. 425
The Fundamental Properties of Early-Type Galaxies in the Coma Cluster	p. 429
Kinematics of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies	p. 433
The Ages of Galactic Bulges in the Local Universe	p. 437
On the Origin of the Luminosity - Metallicity Relation for Late-Type Galaxies: Spirals to Irregulars Transition	p. 441
The Role of External Trigger for SF in Blue Compact Galaxies Implications from Statistics of Companion Galaxies	p. 445
An Empirical Picture for the Evolution of Galaxies Outside of Clusters	p. 449
Spectrophotometric Observations of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: MKN 370, MKN 600 and MKN 36	p. 453
2D Kinematics of Nuclear Bars	p. 455
NGC 4340: Double Bar + Fossil Nuclear Ring	p. 457
Integral Field Spectroscopy of Active Galaxies	p. 459
Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of BCDS: MRK 370	p. 461
Ram Pressure Stripping of Dwarf Satellites in Disc Galaxies	p. 463
On the Bulge-to-Disk Size Ratio for Spiral Galaxies	p. 465
A K-Band [mu]0-Log h Relation for Early-Type Spiral Galaxy Disks	p. 467
Sub-KPC Stellar Kinematics of AGN as Revealed by Isaac (VLT/ANTU) Spectroscopy	p. 469
The Kinematics of the LMC from its Carbon Stars	p. 471
Clues to the Formation and Evolution of Tidal Dwarf Galaxies	p. 473
Structural Parameters and Morphology of a Subsample of BCGS from the First and Second Byurakan Surveys	p. 475
Properties of Galaxies with Universal Density Profile	p. 477
Galaxy Formation Clues from Globular Cluster Systems: Preliminary Results for Coma	p. 479
Two Physical Laws for Elliptical Galaxies: Photometrical Consequences	p. 481
Observations of Near-Infrared Selected LSB Galaxies	p. 483
Looking for Intermediate Age Populations in Merger Remnant Galaxies: The Case of NGC 7252	p. 485
Cometary Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: Clues to Dwarf Galaxy Evolution?	p. 487
Radial Redistribution of Gas Connected to a Distant Galaxy versus Galaxy Encounter	p. 489
Star Formation and Feedback Processes in Numerical Simulations: Outflows, Galactic Winds and the Fate of Dwarf Galaxies	p. 491
Modeling Gas and Stellar Kinematics in Disc Galaxies	p. 493
Genes and Galaxies	p. 495
Galaxy Recycling: The First Sample of TDG Candidates	p. 497
The Ionized Intergalactic Gas: Baryonic Dark Matter	p. 499
Structure, Dynamics and Environment of Galaxies: Discussion of Session Four	p. 501
Evolution with Redshift
The Masses of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts	p. 507
Metals at High Redshifts	p. 517
ISO Observations of Faint Radio Sources	p. 527
Is the Deficit of Z ] 1 Field Ellipticals Real?	p. 531
High Z Evolution of Optically and IR-Selected Galaxies	p. 535
The Fors Deep Field	p. 539
A Proto-Cluster around a Radio Galaxy at Redshift 2.16	p. 543
Properties of High-Z Galaxies Seen Through Lensing Clusters	p. 547
The Evolution and Space Density of Damped Lyman-[alpha] Galaxies	p. 551
Metals in the Intergalactic Medium	p. 555
Morphological Classifications of High Redshift Galaxies: GASPHOT: A Tool for Galaxy Automated Surface PHOTometry	p. 561
Galaxy Evolution: The ISOCAM View	p. 565
Gas Metallicities and Early Evolution of Distant Radio Galaxies	p. 571
The Evolution of the Star-Formation Rate in Galaxies	p. 575
Detection Limits for the Cosmos Survey: K Corrections for B, R, K Bands	p. 577
Field Galaxy Evolution with the Munics Survey	p. 579
The Evolution of the Luminosity Function of Field Galaxies from Z = 1 to Z = 0	p. 581
The H[alpha] SFR of the Universe at Z = 0.24 and Z = 0.4	p. 583
The UCM-CIDA-Yale Survey: Looking for the Current Star-Forming Galaxies	p. 585
Evolution of Galaxies in Poor Clusters	p. 587
Modelling the Extinction Properties of Galaxies	p. 589
Massive Star Formation in Luminous Compact Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts	p. 593
Global Star Formation History in Rich Cluster Cores	p. 597
The CADIS Picture of Galaxy Evolution in the Range 0 [ z 1	p. 599
Applications of Evolutionary Synthesis Models: From Nearby to High-Z Galaxies	p. 601
Are the Submillimeter and X-Ray Backgrounds Related Phenomena?	p. 603
The L-[sigma] relation in HII Galaxies: Cosmological Relevance	p. 605
Number Counts and Colors of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South	p. 607
The Properties of High Redshift Galaxies	p. 609
Summary and Future Prospects
The Evolution of Galaxies: Unsolved Problems and Future Prospects	p. 621
List of Participants	p. 631
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