How does the Galaxy work? : a galactic tertulia with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds

433 Pages·2004·15.938 MB·English

by  E J Alfaro, Enrique Pérez, José Franco

HOW DOES THE GALAXY WORK?
ASTROPHYSICS AND
SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY
VOLUME 315
EDITORIAL BOARD
Chairman
W.B. BURTON,National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected])
Executive Committee
J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands
MEMBERS
I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Germany
J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A.
F. BERTOLA, Universitá di Padova, Italy
J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.
C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
O. ENGVOLD, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, U.S.A.
P. G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, U.K.
F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia
R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan
S. TREMAINE,CITA, Princeton University, U.S.A.
N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
HOW DOES THE GALAXY
WORK?
A Galactic Tertulia
with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds
Edited by
EMILIO J. ALFARO
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC),
Granada, Spain
ENRIQUE PÉREZ
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC),
Granada, Spain
and
JOSÉ FRANCO
Instituto de Astronomía,
UNAM, México
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
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Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Bruce’sLetter xv
ConferencePoster xvi
OrganizingCommittees xvii
ConferencePhotograph xviii
ListofParticipants xix
TheMilkyWay: FourCenturiesofDiscoveryoftheGalaxy 1
S.N.Shore
GasintheDisk&Halo
HICloudsBeyondtheGalacticDisk 17
F.J.Lockman
TheWHAMNorthernSkySurveyandtheNatureoftheWarmIonizedMedium
intheGalaxy 25
G.J.Madsen
TheStructureofGalacticHydrogen
ontheLargestScales 34
N.M.McClure-Griffiths,J.M.Dickey,B.M.Gaensler,&A.J.Green
TheBU-FCRAOGalacticRingSurvey 39
T. M. Bania, J. M. Jackson, D. P. Clemens, M. H. Heyer, R. Simon, R. Shah, & J.
Rathborne
TheViewoftheInterstellarMediumwiththeCanadianGalacticPlane
Survey 43
K.A.Douglas,&A.R.Taylor
DarkHydrogenintheGalacticPlane 47
S.J.Gibson,A.R.Taylor,J.M.Stil,L.A.Higgs,P.E.Dewdney,&C.M.Brunt
vi
DiffuseInfraredExcessFeaturesintheCanadianGalacticPlaneSurvey 51
K.A.Douglas,&A.R.Taylor
TheOxygenAbundanceinourGalaxy 52
L.S.Pilyugin,F.Ferrini,&R.V.Shkvarun
IonizationoftheGalacticHalo 53
J.D.Slavin
DiffuseIonizedGasandtheDisk-HaloInteractioninSpiralGalaxies 61
R.-J.Dettmar
ArealltheDIGstheSame? 71
A.M.Hidalgo-Ga´mez
RadioHalosinStarFormingGalaxies 75
U.Lisenfeld,M.Dahlem,&M.Ehle
Brackett-γ LineSurveyoftheIonizedHydrogenintheGalacticPlane. 79
A.S.Kutyrev,C.L.Bennett,S.H.Moseley, R.J.Reynolds,&F.L.Roesler
II
LeakyH RegionsandHeliumIonizationintheReynoldsLayer 83
K.Wood,&J.S.Mathis
ReynoldslayersinNearbyGalaxies: theFace–OnView 88
J.E.Beckman,&A.Zurita
VolumeFillingFactorsoftheDIG 93
D.Mitra,E.M.Berkhuijsen,&P.Mu¨ller
i
LatestResultsoftheSETH SurveyatArecibo 97
E.J.Korpela,P.Demorest,E.Heien,C.Heiles,&D.Werthimer
Job Accomplished? The Escape of Ionizing Radiation from the Disks of Spiral
Galaxies 101
M.Castellanos,D.Valls-Gabaud,A.I.D´ıaz,&G.Tenorio-Tagle
vii
ModelingtheDiffuseIonizedGaswithCloudy 102
T.Elwert,&R.–J.Dettmar
DiffuseIonizedMediumPanelDiscussion 103
R.J.Reynolds,R.L.Shelton,S.L.Tufte,&therestofthe“tertulianos”
Gas Dynamics
AbsorptionLineStudiesintheHalo 129
P.Richter
DynamicalEvolutionofHighVelocityCloudsintheGalacticHalo 136
C.Konz,G.T.Birk,&H.Lesch
PulsarBowShocksasProbesofWarmNeutralGas 141
B.M.Gaensler,B.Stappers,S.Chatterjee,P.Ghavamian,D.H.Jones,&J.Cordes
HighlyIonizedHVCstowardsPKS2155–304: GalacticorExtragalactic? 146
J.A.Collins,J.M.Shull,&M.L.Giroux
TowardsanUnderstandingoftheDynamicsoftheMilkyWay 147
K.Hachisuka,&M.Miyoshi
FUSEObservationsofOVIEmissionfromtheGalacticFountain 148
B.Otte,W.V.Dixon,R.Sankrit,&M.Bonamente
PatternSpeedsofThreeSpiralsUsingCOandtheTremaine-WeinbergMethod 149
R.J.Rand,P.Zimmer,&J.T.McGraw
GasInfallontotheSuperthinIC2233 150
L.D.Matthews,&J.M.Uson
High-VelocityGasObservedtowardstheShajn147SupernovaRemnant 152
S.Sallmen,B.Y.Welsh,&R.Lallement
Hot Gas
HotGasintheGalaxy 155
W.T.Sanders
viii
BubblesandSuperbubbles 165
Y.-H.Chu,M.A.Guerrero,&R.A.Gruendl
TheChandraViewofM101: WhatCanWeLearnAbouttheMilkyWay? 173
K.D.Kuntz
FUSEObservationsoftheVelaSupernovaRemnant 177
R.Sankrit
CircumstellarInteractioninYoungRadioSupernovae 181
M.A.Pe´rez-Torres,&A.Alberdi
ChandraArchiveofNearbyGalaxies.I.NormalGalaxies 186
C.-H.R.Chen,S.Wang,M.A.Guerrero,Y.-H.Chu,&R.A.Gruendl
HIShellsinthe2ndGalacticQuadrant 187
S.Ehlerova´
KeyScienceProgramsfortheSPEARMission 188
E.J.Korpela,J.Edelstein,K.Nishikida,B.Welsh,K.–W.Min,W.Han,K.–I.Seon,&
D.–H.Lee
ChandraArchiveofNearbyGalaxies.II.GalaxieswithNuclearActivity 189
S.Wang,C.-H.R.Chen,M.A.Guerrero,Y.-H.Chu,&R.A.Gruendl
HeatingandCoolingintheISM(PanelDiscussion) 191
T.W.Hartquist,&J.Raymond
TheStellarComponent
TheGalacticCentreanditsBlackHole 201
R.Scho¨del,&R.Genzel
StellarMetallicitiesandtheFormationoftheGalacticBulge 209
I.Ferreras,R.F.G.Wyse,&J.Silk
TheGalacticBar 213
R.Fux
StellarDistributionintheGalacticDiskfromNIRColor-MagnitudeDiagrams 221
A.Cabrera-Lavers,F.Garzo´n,&P.Hammersley
ix
StellarClustersintheNucleusofGalaxies 225
R.M.Gonza´lez–Delgado
MassiveYoungClusters 231
J.Ma´ız–Apella´niz
DeepMulticolorNIRSurveyoftheGalacticPlane 240
A.Cabrera-Lavers,F.Garzo´n,B.Vicente,&P.Hammersley
TracingtheHistoryoftheGalaxywithGlobularClusters 241
F.R.Ferraro
TidalDebrisintheGalacticHalo 249
D.Mart´ınez-Delgado
StarFormationinHigh-RedshiftISM 257
A.M.Wolfe
GasInflowinSpiralGalaxiesfromKiloparsectoParsecScale 265
W.Maciejewski
OpenClustersasTracersoftheCygnusArm 269
A.Marco,&I.Negueruela
TriaxialBulgeandIn-PlaneBaroftheMilkyWay 271
S.Picaud
TidalShocksonGlobularClusters 272
S.Leon,L.Verdes-Montenegro,G.Bergond,G.Meylan,&F.Combes
EvolutionofGlobularClusterPopulationsinCompactGalaxyGroups 273
S.Leon,J.Perea,A.Athanassoula,G.Bergond,G.Meylan,A.DelOlmo,&G.Garc´ıa–
Go´mez
NearIRColor–MagnitudeDiagramsofBulgeGlobularClusters 274
E.Valenti,F.R.Ferraro,&L.Origlia
MagneticField&Plasma
MagneticFieldsintheMilkyWayandOtherSpiralGalaxies 277
R.Beck