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Book Multi wavelength Studies of Nearby Galaxies

Download or read book Multi wavelength Studies of Nearby Galaxies written by Rachel Annette Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Statistical and Multi wavelength Study of Star Formation in Galaxies

Download or read book A Statistical and Multi wavelength Study of Star Formation in Galaxies written by Corentin Schreiber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents a pioneering method for gleaning the maximum information from the deepest images of the far-infrared universe obtained with the Herschel satellite, reaching galaxies fainter by an order of magnitude than in previous studies. Using these high-quality measurements, the author first demonstrates that the vast majority of galaxy star formation did not take place in merger-driven starbursts over 90% of the history of the universe, which suggests that galaxy growth is instead dominated by a steady infall of matter. The author further demonstrates that massive galaxies suffer a gradual decline in their star formation activity, providing an alternative path for galaxies to stop star formation. One of the key unsolved questions in astrophysics is how galaxies acquired their mass in the course of cosmic time. In the standard theory, the merging of galaxies plays a major role in forming new stars. Then, old galaxies abruptly stop forming stars through an unknown process. Investigating this theory requires an unbiased measure of the star formation intensity of galaxies, which has been unavailable due to the dust obscuration of stellar light.

Book The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies

Download or read book The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies written by Glen Mackie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the radio signature of our own Milky Way was detected in 1931, galaxies have been observed from ultra-high energy gamma rays to long wavelength radio waves, providing fundamental insights into their formation, evolution and structural components. Unveiling the secrets of some of the best-observed galaxies, this atlas contains over 250 full-color images spanning the whole electromagnetic spectrum. The accompanying text explains why we see the component stars, gas and dust through different radiation processes, and describes the telescopes and instruments used. This atlas is a valuable reference resource on galaxies for students seeking an overview of multiwavelength observations and what they tell us, and researchers needing detailed summaries of individual galaxies. An accompanying website, hosted by the author, contains slide shows of the galaxies covered in the book. This is available at www.cambridge.org/9780521620628.

Book Galaxies in the Local Volume

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bärbel Silvia Koribalski
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2009-04-29
  • ISBN : 1402069332
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Galaxies in the Local Volume written by Bärbel Silvia Koribalski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book presents an overview of the galaxies within the Local Volume, including the Local Group and our closest neighbours, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. Presented here are the latest results from radio, infrared and optical surveys as well as detailed multi-wavelength studies of individual galaxies. The book aims to provide a vibrant forum for presentations and discussions across a broad range of astrophysical topics.

Book Multiwavelength Cosmology

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  • Author : Manolis Plionis
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2006-04-18
  • ISBN : 0306485702
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Multiwavelength Cosmology written by Manolis Plionis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent scientific efforts in Astrophysics & Cosmology have brought a revolution to our understanding of the Cosmos. Amazing results is the outcome of amazing experiments! The huge scientific, technological & financial effort that has gone into building the 10-m class telescopes as well as many space and balloon observatories, essential to observe the multitude of cosmic phenomena in their manifestations at different wavelengths, from gamma-rays to the millimetre and the radio, has given and is still giving its fruits of knowledge. These recent scientific achievements in Observational and Theoretical Cosmology were presented in the "Multiwavelength Cosmology" conference that took place on beautiful Mykonos island in the Aegean between 17 and 20 June 2003. More than 180 Cosmologists from all over the world gathered for a four-day intense meeting in which recent results from large ground based surveys (AAT/2-df, SLOAN) and space missions (WMAP, Chandra, XMM, ISO, HST) were presented and debated, providing a huge impetus to our knowledge of the Cosmos. The future of the subject (experiments, and directions of research) was also discussed. The conference was devoted mostly on the constraints on Cosmological models and galaxy formation theories that arise from the study of the high redshift Universe, from clusters of galaxies, and their evolution, from the cosmic microwave background, the large-scale structure and star-formation history.

Book Multi wavelength Observations of Nearby Active Galaxies

Download or read book Multi wavelength Observations of Nearby Active Galaxies written by Anthony John Holloway and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Multi wavelength Studies of Interacting Galaxies

Download or read book Multi wavelength Studies of Interacting Galaxies written by Mao-Chang Liang and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Galaxies in the Local Volume

Download or read book Galaxies in the Local Volume written by Bärbel Silvia Koribalski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book presents an overview of the galaxies within the Local Volume, including the Local Group and our closest neighbours, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. Presented here are the latest results from radio, infrared and optical surveys as well as detailed multi-wavelength studies of individual galaxies. The book aims to provide a vibrant forum for presentations and discussions across a broad range of astrophysical topics.

Book New Horizons from Multi Wavelength Sky Surveys

Download or read book New Horizons from Multi Wavelength Sky Surveys written by Brian J. McLean and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large area sky surveys are now a reality in the radio, IR, optical and X-ray passbands. In the next few years, new surveys using optical, UV and IR mosaic cameras with high throughput digital detectors will expand the dynamic range and accuracy of photometry and astrometry of objects over a significant fraction of the entire sky. Parallel X-ray and radio surveys over the same areas will produce astronomical image and spectroscopic databases of unprecedented size and quality. The combined data sets will provide significant new constraints on star formation, stellar dynamics, Galactic structure, the evolution of galaxies and large scale structure, as well as new opportunities to identify rare objects in the solar system and the Galaxy. Large area surveys have formidable data acquisition, processing, archiving, and data distribution demands and this meeting provided a forum for sharing experiences amongst workers specializing in different wavebands as well as discussing how multiband observations can reveal fundamental relationships in our understanding of the Universe.

Book A Multi Wavelength Census of Star Formation at Redshift Z 2

Download or read book A Multi Wavelength Census of Star Formation at Redshift Z 2 written by Naveen Reddy and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the census of star-forming galaxies and their extinction properties at redshift z 2, when a large fraction of the stellar mass in the universe formed. We find a good agreement between the X-ray, radio, and de-reddened UV estimates of the average star formation rate (SFR) for our sample of z 2 galaxies of 50 Msun/yr, indicating that the locally calibrated SFR relations appear to be statistically valid from redshifts 1.5

Book Multi wavelength Study of a Complete Sample of Nearby Seyfert Galaxies

Download or read book Multi wavelength Study of a Complete Sample of Nearby Seyfert Galaxies written by Francesca Panessa and published by . This book was released on 2003* with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Multi wavelength Analysis of the Physical Properties of Distant Galaxies

Download or read book Multi wavelength Analysis of the Physical Properties of Distant Galaxies written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Multi wavelength Population Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei and Galaxies Using PRIMUS and AEGIS

Download or read book Multi wavelength Population Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei and Galaxies Using PRIMUS and AEGIS written by Alexander John Mendez and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation uses large galaxy redshift surveys and multi-wavelength imaging to place observational constraints on the evolution of galaxies and the supermassive black holes that they host since the Universe was roughly half its current age. In the first chapter, we use data from the AEGIS survey to present quantitative morphological measurements of green valley galaxies, to constrain the mechanism(s) responsible for quenching star formation in this transition population and creating elliptical galaxies. We show that green galaxies are generally massive (M.) ~ 1010·5 M/[sun]) disk galaxies with high concentrations of light. We find that major mergers are not the dominant mechanism responsible for quenching star formation, and we find that either more mild external processes or internal secular processes play a crucial role in halting star formation. In the second chapter, we use data from the PRIMUS survey to investigate Spitzer/IRAC and X-ray AGN selection techniques in order to quantify the overlap, uniqueness, contamination, and completeness of each AGN selection. For roughly similar depth IR and X-ray data, we find that ~75% of IR-selected AGN are also identified as X-ray AGN. For the deepest X-ray data, this fraction increases to ~90%, indicating that at most ~10% of IR-selected AGN may be heavily obscured. While similar overall, the IR-AGN samples preferentially contain more luminous AGN, while the X-ray AGN samples identify AGN with a wider range of accretion rates, where the host galaxy light dominates at IR wavelengths. A more complete AGN sample is created by combining both IR and X-ray selected AGN. Finally, we present a clustering study of X-ray AGN, radio AGN and IR AGN selected AGN using spectroscopic redshifts from the PRIMUS and DEEP2 redshift surveys. Using the cross-correlation of AGN with dense galaxy samples, we find differences in the clustering of AGN selected at different wavelengths. However, we find no significant differences in the clustering of each AGN sample with matched galaxy samples that have the same redshift, stellar mass, and star formation rate distributions. The differences in the clustering of AGN selected at different wavelengths can therefore be explained by the clustering differences of their host populations

Book Galaxy Clusters

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  • Author : Amruta J. Deshpande
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 87 pages

Download or read book Galaxy Clusters written by Amruta J. Deshpande and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I present studies of the X-ray emission from galaxy clusters in the context of understanding the multi-wavelength selection function and mass estimation of galaxy clusters. Clusters are gravitationally bound systems of dark matter, gas and galaxies, and are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. Constraining cosmology with cluster studies requires large, complete cluster samples with reliable masses over cosmologically significant survey volumes. Such samples are only just becoming available with new surveying telescopes that have optimal sensitivity for cluster finding, and some with the additionally useful property of finding clusters largely by their mass, which is the cosmologically significant cluster property. These surveys have increased the need for obtaining large, well-understood samples of clusters for characterizing their selection. Ongoing work in this field aims to determine the selection and limitations of the four ways of observing clusters and measuring their masses (optical/infrared, X-ray, weak lensing, or Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect) using both large and small samples. In this context, I have studied small cluster samples in the X-ray and compared their properties to those determined through three different cluster selection methods: through weak lensing selection, optical selection, and selection through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. In this thesis I begin in the introduction with a brief overview of the current cosmological picture and how clusters help to constrain cosmology. In the subsequent chapters I describe my work in the X-ray, aimed at better understanding clusters selected through the different methods. I conclude with a summary of how my follow-up and other multi-wavelength studies have illuminated cluster selection and also with comments on the persisting need for similar studies in the near future.

Book Multi Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN

Download or read book Multi Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-04-30 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Note: the title actually, but erroneously, shown on the dust jacket, cover, and title page is Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN, which is really only the heading of the first section of the volume. Because the correct, but omitted, title subsumes the erroneous title, Book News uses it in order to most accurately establish the reach of the volume.) The proceedings, then, of IAU Symposium No. 159, held in Geneva, Switzerland, August-September 1993, contain almost all of the presentations given at the conference both as posters and as oral invited and contributed papers. They address topics in multi- wavelength continuum emission of AGN; new observations of AGN with specific instruments; variability; correlations between emission components; AGN physics and models; unified schemes and relations with other types of objects; continuum studies; emission processes; x-rays and higher energies; variability; radio emission (maps); line studies; disk structure and emission; and statistical studies and evolution. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR