The Outer galaxy : proceedings of a symposium held in honor of Frank J. Kerr at the University of Maryland, College Park, May 28-29, 1987

The Book Summarizes Research Into The Fundamental Properties Of The Outer Milky Way (including Its Mass, Scale And Rotation Properties) And Covers Topics Such As Spiral Structure, The Interstellar Medium, Star Formation, Satellites Of The Milky Way And The Outer Parts Of Some Nearby Galaxies. It Contains New Work On The Outer Rotation Curve Of The Milky Way, First Results Of A New Low Frequency Galactic Disk Survey, New Results On The Scale Of The Galaxy (the Distance Of The Sun From The Center And The Relation Of The Disk Of The Milky Way To The Halo). This Is The First Volume Specifically Dedicated To Outer Galaxy Research. Professional Astronomers And Astrophysicists As Well As Graduate Students Will Welcome This Book As A Guide In Understanding The Outer Parts Of The Milky Way And Also Other Galaxies. Contents: Fundamental Parameters: Scale, Rotation And Mass -- Large Scale Surveys And Overall Structure -- Spiral Structure -- The Interstellar Medium And The Near Outer Galaxy -- Star Formation And Molecular And High-velocity Clouds -- The Magellanic Clouds And The Outer Regions Of Other Galaxies -- The Historical Frank Kerr -- Index Of Authors -- List Of Participants. L. Blitz, F.j. Lockman (eds.) Includes Bibliographies And Index. The galactic rotation curve at R > R o from observations of the 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen....Pages 1-17 Groping for truth from the galaxy's outermost satellites....Pages 18-30 Carbon stars at 2R 0 and the rotation of the milky way....Pages 31-39 The velocity field of the outer galaxy....Pages 40-46 The importance of stellar distances in determining the rotation curve of the outer galaxy....Pages 47-52 Metal weak stars and the galactic circular velocity....Pages 53-60 A wavy rotation curve and consequences thereof....Pages 61-67 Milky Way rotation and the distance to the Galactic center from Cepheid variables....Pages 68-72 The distance to the galactic center from observations of the outer galaxy....Pages 73-76 Rotation and the outer galaxy: Comments on topics raised by the work of Frank Kerr....Pages 77-88 Mapping the galaxy at 21 CM wavelength: The Boston University-Arecibo galactic HI survey....Pages 89-93 The shape of the outer-Galaxy HI layer....Pages 94-99 Star clusters and the thickness of the galactic disk as probes of the outer GALAXY....Pages 100-106 The milky way in high resolution U photometry and inferences on its structure....Pages 107-111 First results of a milky way continuum survey at 45 MHz....Pages 112-116 Galaxian structure and x-ray astronomy....Pages 117-121 The cloudy interstellar medium: Aggregation of giant molecular clouds in spiral structures....Pages 123-131 CO emission from the southern galactic plane and galactic structure....Pages 132-137 Substructure in spiral arms....Pages 138-143 Resonance excitation: A possible interpretation of the 3-KPC arm....Pages 144-148 HI and the diffuse interstellar medium....Pages 149-154 The disk-halo connection and the nature of the interstellar medium....Pages 155-160 Giant HI clouds in the Galaxy....Pages 161-167 The Southern extension of the Taurus molecular clouds....Pages 168-170 Kinematics of 21 cm self absorption towards the taurus molecular complex....Pages 171-177 The variable hii regions in cepheus a....Pages 178-183 The nearby molecular clouds: A complete survey....Pages 184-184 Extinction and metal abundances in the outer galaxy....Pages 185-191 Iras results on outer galaxy star formation towards galactic longitude 1=125°....Pages 192-197 The outer galaxy as a star formation laboratory....Pages 198-200 Points to ponder about the molecular outer galaxy....Pages 201-206 Star formation in the outer galaxy....Pages 207-207 The high-velocity clouds: Why were they ever a mystery?....Pages 208-215 Structure, rotation and mass of the magellanic clouds....Pages 217-240 A cO survey of the large magellanic cloud....Pages 241-246 Some surprises in the dynamics of M33 and M31....Pages 247-252 Molecular arms in the outer disk of M51: Structure and origins....Pages 253-257 Searching for galaxies in the zone of avoidance....Pages 258-261 Some reminiscences of frank kerr and the work on the milky way and the magellanic clouds....Pages 263-287