The World of Galaxies : Proceedings of the Conference “Le Monde Des Galaxies” Held 12–14 April 1988 at the Institut D’Astrophysique De Paris in Honor of Gérard and Antoinette De Vaucouleurs on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

From 12 April to 14 April 1988, 120 of Gerard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs's friends and colleagues gathered at the Institut d' Astrophysique in Paris to cel­ ebrate Gerard's 70th birthday and his remarkable career in Astronomy. The gathering also honored the memory of Antoinette (who died 29 August 1987 after a long illness) and her own no less remarkable career. This volume collects the 24 invited review papers and the 60 contributed poster papers presented at the meeting. Gerard de Vaucouleurs Gerard de Vaucouleurs was born on 25 April 1918 in Paris, where he spent his boyhood. He became an active amateur astronomer in the early 1930's, making extensive observations of Mars, Jupiter, and variable stars (including the bright supernova of 1937 in IC 4182). He also began life-long interests in astronomical photography and galaxy cataloguing during this period. In 1939, he met the director of the Paris transport system and an equally avid amateur astronomer, Julien Peridier. De Vaucouleurs worked at Peridier's private observatory at Le Houga in southwestern France on and off throughout the next decade. His undergraduate work was in mathematics, astronomy, and experimental physics; this, combined with his interest in observational astronomy, formed his life-long empirical approach to science. After spending 18 months in the French army early in 1939 - 41, Gerard returned to the Peridier observatory and then, in 1943, to his studies at the Sorbonne, where he met Antoinette. Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi Galaxy Catalogues and Surveys....Pages 1-15 The Updated Version of the Catalogue of Radial Velocities of Galaxies....Pages 16-17 A Survey Catalogue of Ultraviolet-Excess Galaxies....Pages 18-20 The Edinburgh/Durham Southern Sky Galaxy Survey....Pages 21-24 The AAO Distant Galaxy Cluster Survey....Pages 25-28 Galaxy Morphology and Classification....Pages 29-47 CCD Observations of a Sample of Emission Line Galaxies....Pages 48-49 The Manifold of Galaxian Parameters....Pages 50-52 Toward an Automatic Classification of Galaxies....Pages 53-74 Quantitative Classification of Galaxies....Pages 75-94 An Objective Classification System for Spiral Galaxies and Its Relationship to the [N II]/[S II] Ratio....Pages 95-98 The Magellanic Clouds as Late-Type Barred Spirals....Pages 99-107 New Results on the Geometrical Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud....Pages 108-111 The Magellanic Irregular Galaxy DDO 50....Pages 112-115 Photometry and Kinematics of the Magellanic Type Galaxy NGC 4618....Pages 116-117 Chemical Abundance and Age in the Magellanic Clouds; with Special Reference to SN 1987A....Pages 118-140 Ages of Star Clusters in the Bok Region of the Large Magellanic Cloud....Pages 141-144 Dynamical and Spectral Properties of Some Double Clusters in the LMC....Pages 145-148 Clusters of the Small Magellanic Cloud: L 113 and NGC 411....Pages 149-151 Automated Identification of Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 152-154 Star Cluster Population of M 33....Pages 155-159 Neutral Hydrogen in the Magellanic System....Pages 160-167 The Origin of the Magellanic Stream....Pages 168-169 H II Regions in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 170-187 De Vaucouleurs’s Galaxy....Pages 188-197 Dark Halos In Virialized Two-Component Systems of Galactic Mass....Pages 198-201 Kinematics and Chemical Properties of the Old Disk of the Galaxy....Pages 202-205 Complex Instability of Simple Periodic Orbits in a Realistic Galactic Potential....Pages 206-207 Photometry of Early-Type Galaxies and the r 1/4 Law....Pages 208-228 Box- and Peanut-Shaped Bulges of Disk Galaxies....Pages 229-231 The Luminosity Law of Ellipticals; A Test of a Family of Anisotropic Models on Eight Galaxies....Pages 232-234 “Box/Peanut”- Shaped Galactic Bulges....Pages 235-239 Surface Photometry of NGC 3379 with a Tektronix 2048 × 2048 CCD Camera — Comparison with the Luminosity Profile of de Vaucouleurs and Capaccioli....Pages 240-243 The Geometrical Parameters of Early-Type Galaxies and the Local Density....Pages 244-246 On the Nature of Compact Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 247-249 Two-Color Studies of Isophotal Contours in E — S0 Galaxies....Pages 250-251 Models of Spectral Energy Distribution of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 252-255 Photometry of Disks in Galaxies....Pages 256-275 A Study of the Sombrero Galaxy (NGC 4594)....Pages 276-278 Visible and Near Infrared Photometry of NGC 4736....Pages 279-282 Computer Processed Color Images of Spiral Galaxies....Pages 283-285 Modelling the Luminosity Distributions of Edge-On Spiral and Lenticular Galaxies....Pages 286-289 Near-Infrared Imaging of Edge-On Galaxies....Pages 290-292 Photometric Decomposition of Galaxies....Pages 293-311 The Kinematics of Early Type Galaxies....Pages 312-331 Models of the r 1/4 Law....Pages 332-338 Rotating Cores in Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 339-340 NGC 4546, the Double-Spin SB0....Pages 341-343 Radio Emission and Optical Properties of Early Type Galaxies....Pages 344-347 Interacting Pairs of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 348-350 Isophotal Twisting in Isolated Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 351-355 The Formation of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 356-358 Imaging Fabry-Perot Interferometry in Extragalactic Astronomy....Pages 359-372 A Circumnuclear Ring of Enhanced Star Formation in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 4321....Pages 373-376 An Intensive Study of M 81....Pages 377-386 H I and CO Emission in the Hot-Spot Barred Spiral NGC 4314....Pages 387-389 Optical and Radio Properties of Nearby, Non-Cluster Spirals....Pages 390-392 A Physical Model of the Gaseous Dust Band of Centaurus A....Pages 393-396 CCD Observations of Gas and Dust in NGC 4696: Implications for Cooling Flows?....Pages 397-400 NGC 2777: Amorphous — and Young?....Pages 401-403 VLA Observations of Unusual H I Distributions for Coma Cluster Spirals....Pages 404-407 Support for Three Controversial Claims Made by Gérard de Vaucouleurs....Pages 408-419 A Connection between the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster and the Abell 569 Cloud?....Pages 420-422 Automatic Algorithms for Grouping Nearby Galaxies....Pages 423-425 A Study of the Southern Supercluster....Pages 426-427 Dwarf Galaxies, Voids, and the Topology of the Universe....Pages 428-430 The Local Supercluster and Anisotropy of the Redshifts....Pages 431-452 Local Supercluster Velocity Field from Unbiased B -band T-F Distances....Pages 453-455 Spiral Galaxies as Indicators of the Hubble Flow....Pages 456-458 Flat Edge-On Galaxies and Large-Scale Streamings....Pages 459-460 On the de Vaucouleurs Density-Radius Relation and the Cellular Intermediate Large-Scale Structure of the Universe....Pages 461-472 Analytical Models for Large-Scale Structure in the Universe....Pages 473-476 The Distance-Redshift Relation in the Inhomogeneous Universe....Pages 477-479 The Impact of Space Projects on Extragalactic Research....Pages 480-488 Radial Distribution of Radio Emitting Galaxies in Clusters....Pages 489-491 An Unusual Red Envelope Galaxy in an X-ray Selected Cluster....Pages 492-495 Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies in the W Cloud of Virgo....Pages 496-498 Intergalactic Dust as Seen in Emission....Pages 499-501 Spectral Evolution of Galaxies....Pages 502-504 Distance Relationships....Pages 505-509 Local Calibrators and Globular Clusters....Pages 510-530 Distances to the Galaxies M 81 and NGC 2403 from CCD I -Band Photometry of Cepheids....Pages 531-532 Distances From H I Line Widths in Disk Galaxies....Pages 533-546 The D n — Log σ Relation for Elliptical Galaxies: Present Status and Future Work....Pages 547-566 Concluding Remarks....Pages 567-568 Back Matter....Pages 569-570