Comets to cosmology : proceedings of the Third IRAS' Conference, held at Queen Mary College, University of London, July 6-10, 1987

These proceedings are concerned with discoveries from the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite IRAS including follow-up projects in theoretical and observational astronomy. In particular, they stress the solar system results from IRAS. A huge range of astronomical topics is addressed including asteroids, comets, dust in the solar neighbourhood, young stars, old stars, the interstellar medium, and the Galactic cosmic background at various wavelengths. 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