Comets to Cosmology: Proceedings of the Third IRAS Conference Held at Queen Mary College, University of London July 6–10, 1987

S. F. Dermott, P. D. Nicholson, Y. Kim, B. Wolven, E. F. Tedesco (auth.), Andrew Lawrence (eds.)354019052X, 9783540190523, 038719052X

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Table of contents :
The impact of IRAS on asteroidal science….Pages 3-18
Iras observations of asteroids….Pages 19-26
Models for infrared emission from zodiacal dust….Pages 27-39
Separating the solar system and galactic contributions to the diffuse infrared background….Pages 40-43
Zodiacal dust properties as deduced by inversion of iras observations….Pages 44-47
The infrared spectrum of Comet P/Halley….Pages 48-59
Halley’s Comet….Pages 60-65
The albedo of large refractory particles from p/Tempel 2….Pages 66-72
Infrared studies of solar system bodies….Pages 73-77
The large scale distribution of infrared radiation in our Galaxy….Pages 81-88
Large scale structure of dust and gas in the Galaxy….Pages 89-96
Model for the galactic infrared emission….Pages 97-104
The nature of the Galactic bulge….Pages 105-108
A procedure for distinguishing thermal and synchrotron components of the radio continuum emission of the Galactic disc….Pages 109-112
Infrared cirrus….Pages 113-121
Infrared emission from the solar neighborhood….Pages 122-129
A post-iras interstellar dust model….Pages 130-133
The excitation of the infrared emission from visual reflection nebulae….Pages 134-139
Extended infrared emission near stars….Pages 140-143
Beyond the asymptotic giant branch….Pages 144-147
The study of star formation with IRAS….Pages 148-158
The luminosity functions of taurus and chamaeleon….Pages 159-163
Infrared spectra of young stellar objects….Pages 164-170
High luminosity galaxies in the IRAS survey….Pages 172-176
Starbursts: Nature and environment….Pages 177-185
Star formation in normal galaxies….Pages 186-193
The association between stellar bars and enhanced activity in the central kiloparsec of spiral galaxies….Pages 194-197
Global properties of star formation in spiral galaxies….Pages 198-201
Radio and optical studies of a complete sample of IRAS galaxies….Pages 202-205
Optical and far infrared properties of a 60µm flux limited sample of IRAS galaxies….Pages 206-209
IRAS observations of normal galaxies: The UGC redshift sample….Pages 210-212
Separation of nuclear and disk components in IRAS observations of spiral galaxies….Pages 213-216
A post IRAS view of active galaxies….Pages 217-229
Far infrared emission of type 2 seyferts….Pages 230-233
Starbursts in interacting galaxies….Pages 234-245
The role of bars in starburst galaxies….Pages 246-252
Are starbursts the result of the fine tuning of dynamical timescales?….Pages 253-256
IRAS observations of an optical sample of interacting galaxies….Pages 257-261
Cosmological background radiation in the infrared….Pages 265-278
Rocket observation of the diffuse infrared radiation….Pages 279-288
Spectrum of the cosmic microwave background….Pages 289-296
From star formation to galaxy formation….Pages 297-311
Galaxies as tracers of the mass distribution….Pages 312-319
Young galaxies….Pages 320-325
Infrared and optical observations of distant radio galaxies….Pages 326-339
A very deep IRAS survey at the North Ecliptic Pole….Pages 340-343
Cosmological evolution of starburst galaxies and IRAS counts at 60 µm ….Pages 344-347
The IRAS dipole….Pages 348-360
A redshift survey of IRAS galaxies….Pages 361-369
The impact of infrared astronomy on the distance scale….Pages 370-383
Conference summary….Pages 385-391