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ISLAND UNIVERSES

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ASTROPHYSICS ANDSPACE SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS

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ISLAND UNIVERSESSTRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF DISK

GALAXIES

by

R. S. DE JONGSpace Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore,

MD, U.S.A.

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A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 1-4020-5572-2 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5572-0 (HB) ISBN-10 1-4020-5573-0 (e-book)ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5573-7 (e-book)

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Contents

Foreword xiiiPiet van der Kruit

Preface xvii

Acknowledgements xix

List of Participants xxi

Part I Properties of Stellar Disks

Stellar Disks 3K.C. Freeman

Disentangling Star Formation, Environment, and Morphology in GalaxyEvolution 17

Daniel Christlein and Ann Zabludoff

Measuring Structural Properties of Galaxies in the Local Universe 23Paul D. Allen, Simon P. Driver, Jochen Liske and Alister W. Graham

Extragalactic Thick Disks 29Julianne J. Dalcanton, (with Anil C. Seth and Peter Yoachim)

The Opacity of Spiral Galaxy Disks 41Benne W. Holwerda, R.A. González, Ronald J. Allen and P.C. van der Kruit

Stellar Populations in Bulges of Spiral Galaxies 47Bhasker K. Moorthy and Jon A. Holtzman

Posters:

The Thin and Thick Disks of the Galaxy: Differences in Evolution 53Tetyana V. Nykytyuk and Tamara V. Mishenina

The Milky Way and the Tully–Fisher Relation 57L. Portinari, J. Holmberg and C. Flynn

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The Contribution of LSB Galaxies to the Local Galaxy Number Density 61Clemens Trachternach, Dominik J. Bomans, Lutz Haberzettl andRalf-Juergen Dettmar

Part II Kinematics and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies

Dynamics of Disks 67James Binney

The Vc–σc Relation for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies 77E.M. Corsini, A. Pizzella, E. Dalla Bontà, F. Bertola, L. Cocato and M. Sarzi

Counterrotating Core in the LMC: Accretion and/or Merger? 83Annapurni Subramaniam and Tushar P. Prabhu

Halo Mass Profiles of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies 89W.J.G. de Blok

The Disk Mass Project 95Marc A.W. Verheijen, Matthew A. Bershady, Rob A. Swaters,David R. Andersen and Kyle B. Westfall

A Dark Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster Imaged at 21-cm 101R. F. Minchin, M. J. Disney, J. I. Davies, A. R. Marble, C. D. Impey,P. J. Boyce, D. A. Garcia, M. Grossi, C. A. Jordan, R. H. Lang, S. Roberts,S. Sabatini and W. van Driel

Comparing Dynamical and Stellar Population Mass-to-Light Ratio Estimates 107Roelof S. de Jong and Eric F. Bell

Posters:

Feeding the Nuclear Starburst in NGC 6946 117T. Böker, E. Schinnerer, E. Emsellem and U. Lisenfeld

Integral Field Spectroscopy of NGC 2855 and NGC 7049 121L. Coccato, E. M. Corsini, A. Pizzella and F. Bertola

Two-dimensional Kinematics of a Bar and Central Disk in NGC 5448 125Kambiz Fathi, Glenn van de Ven, Reynier Peletier, Eric Emsellem,Jesús Falcón–Barroso, Michele Cappellari and Tim de Zeeuw

Galactic Rotation Using Open Star Clusters 129Peter M. Frinchaboy and Steven R. Majewski

Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of Late-Type Spirals 133Katia Ganda and Reynier Peletier

Vertical Distribution of Stars and Gas in a Galactic Disk 137Chanda J. Jog

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Contents vii

Two Dimensional Velocity Fields of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies 141Rachel Kuzio de Naray, Stacy S. McGaugh, W.J.G. de Blok and Albert Bosma

Pattern Speeds of Spiral Galaxies using the Tremaine-Weinberg Method 145S. E. Meidt and R. J. Rand

A New Scenario for the Origin of Galactic Warps 149Yves Revaz and Daniel Pfenniger

The 3-Dimensional Dynamics of the Galactic Bulge 153

Asymmetric Drift and the Stellar Velocity Ellipsoid 157Kyle B. Westfall, Matthew A. Bershady, Marc A. W. Verheijen,David R. Andersen and Rob A. Swaters

Part III Bars, Spiral Structure, and Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies

Bars, Spiral Structure, and Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies 163Bruce G. Elmegreen

Barred Galaxies and Galaxy Evolution 175Johan H. Knapen

Three-Dimensional Bar Structure 181M. Bureau, G. Aronica and E. Athanassoula

Anomalously Weak Dynamical Friction in Halos 187J. A. Sellwood and Victor P. Debattista

Halo Properties and Secular Evolution in Barred Galaxies 195E. Athanassoula

201J. Falcon-Barroso, R. Bacon, M. Bureau, M. Cappellari, R. L. Davies,P. T. de Zeeuw, E. Emsellem, K. Fathi, D. Krajnovic, H. Kuntschner,R. M. McDermid, R. F. Peletier and M. Sarzi

Posters:

A Cool Gas Ring in M100 207Emma L. Allard, Reynier F. Peletier and Johan H. Knapen

Boxy Edge-On Profiles 211

Resonances and Extent of Spiral Arms in Disk Galaxies 215Preben Grosbøl and Philippe Héraudeau

A SAURON Study of Stars and Gas in Sa Bulges

M. Soto, K.H. Kuijken and J. Lub

P. A. Patsis and E. M. Xilouris

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Dynamics of Localized Packets of Spiral Density Waves in Gaseous Disks 219George R. Mamatsashvili and George D. Chagelishvili

Part IV The Outskirts and Environment of Disk Galaxies

Dynamical Evolution of Accreted Dwarf Galaxies 227James S. Bullock and Kathryn V. Johnston

Resolving the Stellar Outskirts of M31 and M33 239Annette Ferguson, Mike Irwin, Scott Chapman, Rodrigo Ibata, Geraint Lewisand Nial Tanvir

Chemical Abundance Constraints on Galaxy Formation 245

The Outer Disks of Galaxies: “To be or not to be truncated?” 253Michael Pohlen and Ignacio Trujillo

Radial Profiles of Stellar Disks in Galaxies at z≈1 259Isabel Pérez

The Outer Banks of Galaxy Disks 265Dennis Zaritsky and Daniel Christlein

The Gaseous Haloes of Disc Galaxies 271

Gaseous Halos and the Interstellar Disk-Halo Connection 277Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

Geometrodynamical Distances to Cloud Streams 283Donald Lynden-Bell and Shoko Jin

Posters:

Morphology of Galactic Globular Clusters 287C. W. Chen and W. P. Chen

Observations of Stripped Edge-on Virgo Cluster Galaxies 291

SparsePak Observations of Diffuse Ionized Gas Halo Kinematics in NGC 891 295George H. Heald, Richard J. Rand, Robert A. Benjamin andMatthew A. Bershady

Stellar Populations in the Outer Regions of M31 299Rachel Johnson, Daniel Faria and Annette Ferguson

A Study of Extra-Planar Hi Gas 303

K. A. Venn

F. Fraternali, T. Oosterloo, J. J. Binney and R. Sancisi

Hugh H. Crowl, Jeffrey D. P. Kenney, J. H. van Gorkom and Bernd Vollmer

P. Kamphuis, R. F. Peletier, P. C. van der Kruit, T. A. Oosterloo and R. Sancisi

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Unexpected Young Star Clusters in the Tidal Debris of NGC 2782 307Karen Knierman

Infall of Substructures onto a Milky Way-like Dark Halo 311Yang-Shyang Li and Amina Helmi

The Far-Infrared Properties of the Most Isolated Galaxies 315U. Lisenfeld, L. Verdes-Montenegro, S. Leon and J. Sulentic

Studying Galaxy Formation in Loose Galaxy Groups 319

The Environment of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies from SDSS 323Stefan Dominik Rosenbaum and Dominik J. Bomans

Part V Interstellar Matter

329Michael A. Dopita

SINGS Observations of Spiral Galaxies 341Michael Regan, Michele D. Thornley, Stuart N. Vogel, Kartik Sheth,Bruce T. Draine, David J. Hollenbach, Martin Meyer, Daniel A. Dale,Charles W. Engelbracht, Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr., Lee Armus, Daniela Calzetti,Karl D. Gordon, George Helou, Claus Leitherer, Sangeeta Malhotra,George H. Rieke and Marcia J. Rieke

The Molecular ISM of Low Surface Brightness Spiral Galaxies 347L. D. Matthews

The Kinematics and Physical Conditions of Warm Ionized Gas in Spiral Disks 353Matthew A. Bershady and David R. Andersen

Posters:

Global Line Profile Asymmetries in Disk Galaxies 359David R. Andersen and Matthew A. Bershady

Extragalactic Molecular Clouds 363Yuri Beletsky and João Alves

The Formation of Molecular Clouds in Spiral Galaxies 367Clare Dobbs and Ian Bonnell

Cloud Mass Function in a Disk Galaxy 371Asao Habe and Takayuki Saitoh

Tracing Molecular Hydrogen with Atomic Hydrogen in M81 and OtherNearby Galaxies 375

Jonathan S. Heiner, Ronald J. Allen and Pieter C. van der Kruit

D. J. Pisano, D. G. Barnes, B. K. Gibson, L. Staveley-Smith, K. C. Freeman

Star Formation, Interstellar Physics & the SED of Gas-Rich Galaxies

and V. A. Kilborn

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Central Structure of Molecular Gas in Maffei 2 379Nario Kuno, Koichiro Nakanishi, Kazuo Sorai and Toshihito Shibatsuka

The Dusty Disk of the Early-Type Galaxy NGC 3656 383Lerothodi L. Leeuw, Jacqueline Davidson, C. Darren Dowell,Roger H. Hildebrand and Henry E. Matthews

Supermassive Black Hole Binary and Nuclear Star Burst 387Hidenori Matsui, Asao Habe and Takayuki R. Saitoh

Radio Continuum, CO, and Thermal Infrared Emission in NearbyStar-Forming Galaxies 391

T. Wong, A. Hughes, R. Ekers, R. Paladino, M. Murgia, L. Blitz,T. T. Helfer, L. Moscadelli, L. Gregorini, L. Staveley-Smith, M. Filipovic,Y. Fukui and N. Mizuno

Part VI (Evolution of) Star Formation in Galactic Disks

The Multiwavelength View of Star-Forming Disks 397Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr.

Van der Kruit to Spitzer: A New Look at the Far-Infrared–Radio Correlation 409

The Origin of the Initial Mass Function is in the Cloud Structure 417João Alves, Marco Lombardi and Charles Lada

Modes of Star Formation along the Hubble Sequence and Beyond 423Richard de Grijs

Spiral Shock Triggering of Star Formation 429Ian A. Bonnell and Clare L. Dobbs

The Metallicity History of Disk Galaxies 435Lisa Kewley and Henry A. Kobulnicky

Posters:

The 11 Mpc Hα and Ultraviolet Galaxy Survey 441José G. Funes, S.J., Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr., Janice C. Lee, Shoko Sakai,Christy Tremonti and Liese van Zee

Continuous Star Cluster Formation in the Spiral NGC 45 445

HST / STIS Results on Nuclear Star Clusters in Spiral Galaxies 449Joern Rossa, Roeland P. van der Marel, Torsten Böker, Joris Gerssen,Luis C. Ho, Hans-Walter Rix, Joseph C. Shields and Carl-Jakob Walcher

Island Universes Colliding 453L. Snijders and P.P. van der Werf

Marcelo Mora, Søren S. Larsen and Markus Kissler-Patig

E.J. Murphy, R. Braun, G. Helou, L. Armus, J. D. P. Kenney and the SINGS team

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Environmental Dependence of Star Formation in Cluster and Field Galaxies 457Claire Thomas, Phil James and Chris Moss

Part VII Disk Galaxies through Cosmic Time

Disks at High Redshifts 463Roberto G. Abraham

Eight Billion Years of Disk Galaxy Evolution 475Eric F. Bell, Marco Barden, Xianzhong Zheng, Casey Papovich,Emeric Le Floc’h, George Rieke, Christian Wolf and the GEMS,MIPS Instrument, and COMBO-17 teams

Size Evolution of Galaxies Since z∼3: Combining SDSS, GEMS and FIRES 481Ignacio Trujillo, Natascha M. Förster Schreiber, Gregory Rudnick,Marco Barden, Marijn Franx, Hans–Walter Rix, J. A. R. Caldwell,Daniel H. McIntosh, Andrew Zirm, Boris , Pieter G. van Dokkum,Ivo Labbé, Alan Moorwood, Huub Röttgering, Arjen van der Wel,Paul van der Werf and Lottie van Starkenburg

Specific Star Formation Rates 487A. E. Bauer, N. Drory and G. J. Hill

Disk Galaxies at High Redshift? 493Max Pettini

Local Galaxies as Damped Ly-α Analogs 501M. A. Zwaan, J. M. van der Hulst, F. H. Briggs, M. A. W. Verheijen andE. V. Ryan-Weber

The Growth of Disk Galaxies 507Nicole P. Vogt and the DEEP Team

Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies 513Susan A. Kassin and Roelof S. de Jong

Posters:

Evolution of Disk Galaxies 519Steven P. Bamford, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca and Bo Milvang-Jensen

Investigation of Age and Metallicity Gradients and Dust Extinction in DiscGalaxies in the Hubble Deep Field 523

Barbara Cunow

Photometric Properties of Clumpy Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 527Debra Meloy Elmegreen

The Bivariate Brightness Distribution of Galaxy Disks 531

Häußler

J. Liske, S. P. Driver and P. D. Allen

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Part VIII Formation Models of Disk Galaxies

An Analytical Perspective on Galaxy Formation 537Joseph Silk

X-rays from Disk Galaxy Halos, Lyα from Forming Galaxies, and the z∼1Tully-Fisher Relation 545

Jesper Sommer-Larsen

Gas Rich Mergers in Disk Formation 551C. B. Brook, V. Veilleux, D. Kawata, H. Martel and B. K. Gibson

Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation 557Fabio Governato, Beth Willman and Lucio Mayer

Posters:

Collapse of the Primordial Gas Clouds in the Presence of UV Radiation Field 565Jaroslaw Stasielak, Slawomir Stachniewicz and Marek Kutschera

Part IX Conference Summary

Island Universes 571Tim de Zeeuw

Index 579

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Foreword

Piet van der Kruit

Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

[email protected]

In the first place I would like to say that I am extremely grateful that thisconference took place. It was a very stimulating and exciting meeting. Thespeakers and contributors to the discussion were all very inspiring and the Sci-entific Organising Committee put together a most interesting program. It wasalso helpful that the meeting was held in the same place where we were stay-ing and had our meals, the Schylge Hotel on the beautiful Frisian island ofTerschelling. I am very pleased that so many young astronomers took part andmade use of the many opportunities at meals and in the evenings to talk to olderastronomers. For me personally it was great to see many colleagues that haveworked in the same field as I and whom I often have known and respected formany years.

I first of all would like to thank those former students of mine that tookthe initiative to hold this symposium and subsequently did most of the hardwork of organising it: Erwin de Blok (although really and truly a student ofThijs van der Hulst), Richard de Grijs, Roelof de Jong, Johan Knapen andEline Tolstoy (whose real supervisor was Abi Saha). In particular I am verygrateful to Roelof de Jong, who chaired the Scientific Organising Committee,designed the poster and the logo and edited these proceedings. And also toEline Tolstoy, who chaired the Local Organising Committee. I know it tookboth of them valuable time that they would have devoted to research, but whatthey did here was certainly also an important contribution to astronomy.

I thank all members of the SOC for all their input; with a few exceptionsthey are colleagues that I had collaborations with over the years. I have beenvery impressed by the way in which the LOC organized the meeting, tookcare of all arrangements and gave the participants all support they required.Greta, Peter, Isabel, Hans, Eline, Thijs, Hennie and Jackie: it was wonderful.And I thank all participants for this stimulating week. I would like to thankthree more persons in particular. I thank Mike Disney for the very nice portretreproduced in this book and his afterdinner speech at the conference barbecue,which was followed by a very moving applause for me by all attending. And Ithank Ken Freeman for giving the opening review (as I had the honor to do athis conference on Dunk Island) and Tim de Zeeuw for doing me the honor ofgiving the conference summary.

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xiv Foreword

Tim de Zeeuw and Ken Freeman mentioned in their contributions the “vander Kruit guilder”. I would like to take this opportunity to tell the backgroundof this, since most of the credit for it should go to Leonard Searle.

We were writing paper III and IV in our series in September 1981 duringa visit that Leonard made to Groningen. I said to him that I felt he should befirst author on paper IV. He immediately refused, arguing that I had initiatedthe project, produced most of the ideas and had done most the work. My replywas that it had been very much a collaboration and that therefere I felt it wouldbe very appropriate. Leonard thought about it overnight (he woke up earlybecause he still suffered from jetlag) but stayed firmly with his opinion, evento the extent that he felt we should make a joke about it. He therefore had madeup the text of a possible footnote to the title of paper IV and he showed it tome. I gave in, to a large extent because I so much liked the footnote. It wasincluded precisely as Leonard suggested and for completeness I cite it: “Theorder of the authors’ names in this series of papers has been decided in eachcase by tossing a coin. The coin used for this purpose is fully described ina forthcoming monograph “The van der Kruitguilder” to be published in theSeries “Curiosités Numismatiques”, Monte Carlo.”

In those days we had no Internet or preprint servers and preprints were dis-tributed on paper. Also there was no ADS and most institutes had especiallyprinted postcards to fill out and sent to authors requesting reprints after publi-cation. After the preprints of papers III and IV went out, I started getting suchpostcards requesting preprints of the monograph in the footnote. So after a fewof these I made up the page that Tim has included in his contribution to thisbook and sent that in return. However, it was Leonard who first suggested thefootnote and composed it.

For the record I note that the coin has been “used” also by Rosie Wyse (afterasking me for permission) for a paper she wrote with Gerry Gilmore (Wyse &Gilmore, 1986, A.J. 91, 855). On the first page a footnote appears: “The orderof the authors’ names was decided by tossing a coin. This coin, the van derKruit guilder (van der Kruit and Searle 1986), was kindly made available tothe first author by P.C. van der Kruit." The year was now 1986. Indeed the listof references at the end of the Wise & Gilmore paper contains “van der Kruit,P.C. and Searle, L. (1986), In Curiosités Numismatiques (to be published)”.

PIET VAN DER KRUIT

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Piet van der Kruit as drawn by Mike Disney.

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Former and current students of Prof. Piet van der Kruit. Fltr: Benne Holwerda,Richard de Grijs, Erwin de Blok, Piet van der Kruit, Roelof de Jong, JonathanHeiner, Eline Tolstoy, Johan Knapen.

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Preface

The Island Universe: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies conferencewas held on the island of Terschelling from 3–8 July, 2005. It was attendedby 125 registered participants coming from 23 different countries. A total of54 oral papers were delivered including a conference summary. Furthermore,more than 50 posters were presented, which were summarized in two shortpresentations.

The idea for the meeting originated when Prof. Piet van der Kruit met withsome former students and indicated that he was interested in organizing a con-ference. When Piet subsequently was appointed on a new honorary chair —the Jacobus C. Kapteyn Professorship in Astronomy — a reason to organize themeeting had been found. We would organize the meeting to celebrate Piet’sachievements in astronomy and thank him for his generous contributions toastro-politics and administration.

The topic of the conference had to be a tribute to Piet’s life long scienceinterest: the properties of disk galaxies. The goal of the meeting was to takeinventory of our current knowledge of the structure and content of disk galax-ies, to present models of formation and evolution leading to disk galaxies, andto bring together observers and theorists to investigate paths for future research.

The band of former students was expanded to a full SOC (see xix), an LOCwas formed at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, and the organization of themeeting started in earnest. While Piet had indicated that he would like themeeting to take place on Svalbard/Spitsbergen, it was quickly determined thatthis was not practical for logistical and financial reasons. We were lucky tofind as a very good alternative conference center and hotel “Schylge” on theisland of Terschelling, which allowed us to board all participants at the sameplace where the oral and poster presentations were delivered, without even tohave to share the hotel with any other guests. This remote location, away fromthe daily bustle, significantly contributed to the success of the meeting.

The meeting was organized along eight broad topics. Each topic was intro-duced by a review speaker, followed by invited and contributed presentations.The same structure as used during the meeting is used in these proceedings,with the contributions ordered within each topic as they were presented duringthe meeting, followed by the poster contributions that fit best in that session.I hope these proceedings will portrait the atmosphere of an fruitful and enjoy-able meeting, and carry the invitation for the next (at Spitsbergen?).

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Acknowledgements

The “Island Universes” conference and these proceedings would not havebeen possible without the support of a large number of people and institutions.

First and foremost I want to thank Piet van der Kruit, without whose contin-ued support for me and his other (former) students (see p. xvi) this conferenceand these proceedings never would have been.

I want to thank the Science Organizing Committee for helping me to makea very interesting and stimulating science program, that fostered lots of gooddiscussions. I am very much indebted to the Local Organizing Committee fortheir tireless efforts before the meeting and their excellent support during themeeting, making everything run so smoothly.

The conference received financial support from the annual grant of the Fac-ulty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences awarded to Prof. van der Kruitfor his J.C. Kapteyn Professorship, the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, theKoninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW), the LeidsKerkhoven-Bosscha Fonds (LKBF), Netherlands Research School for Astron-omy (NOVA), and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

ROELOF S. DE JONG

Science Organizing Committee:

Chairperson: Roelof de JongOther members: Ron Allen, Julianne Dalcanton, Erwin de Blok, Richard de

Grijs, Ken Freeman, Johan Knapen, Rob Kennicutt, Jerry Sell-wood, Eline Tolstoy, Jacqueline van Gorkom, Thijs van derHulst, Piet van der Kruit.

Local Organizing Committee:

Chairperson: Eline TolstoyOther members: Greta de Vries, Peter Kamphuis, Isabel Pérez Martín, Hans Ter-

louw, Thijs van der Hulst, Piet van der Kruit, Hennie Zonder-van, Jackie Zwegers

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xx Acknowledgements

Image credits:

Terschelling: c© Aerophoto-Schiphol b.v.Hubble Ultra Deep Field & NGC 4414: c© STScI/NASAc© Roelof de Jong

Other photographs: c© Stéphane Courteau, exceptc© Piet van der Kruit p. 374, 536, 578c© Fabio Governato p. 346c© Benne Holwerda p. 570, 582 bottom

Illustration and logo design:

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List of Participants

Roberto Abraham Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of TorontoEmma Allard Univsersity of HertfordshirePaul Allen Mount Stromlo ObservatoryJoão Alves ESODavid Andersen NRC Herzberg Institute of AstrophysicsE. Athanassoula Observatoire de MarseilleSteven Bamford University of NottinghamJesus Falcon Barroso Leiden ObservatoryPeter Barthel Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteGiuseppina Battaglia Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteAmanda Bauer University of Texas at AustinEric Bell Max-Planck-Institut für AstronomieMatthew Bershady University of WisconsinGiuseppe Bertin Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di MilanoYury Bialetski ESOJames Binney Oxford UniversityTorsten Böker European Space AgencyIan Bonnell University of St AndrewsAlbert Bosma Observatoire de MarseilleRobert Braun ASTRONChris Brook Université LavalAlyson Brooks University of WashingtonJames Bullock UC IrvineMartin Bureau University of OxfordDavid Burstein Arizona State UniversityScott Chapman CaltechChin-Wei Chen Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central UniversityDaniel Christlein Yale University & Universidad de ChileLodovico Coccato Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteEnrico Maria Corsini Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di PadovaStéphane Courteau Queen’s UniversityHugh Crowl Yale UniversityBarbara Cunow Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of South AfricaJulianne Dalcanton University of WashingtonIvana Damjanov Astronomical Observatory of BelgradeErwin de Blok RSAA, Mount StromloRichard de Grijs University of Sheffield

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Roelof de Jong Space Telescope Science InstituteTim de Zeeuw Leiden ObservatoryRalf-Juergen Dettmar Astronomical Institute, Ruhr-University BochumMike Disney Cardiff UniversityClare Dobbs School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St AndrewsMichael Andrew Dopita RSAA, Australian National UniversityBruce Elmegreen IBM T.J. Watson Research CenterDebra Elmegreen Vassar CollegeMichael Fall Space Telescope Science InstituteKambiz Fathi Rochester Institute of TechnologyAnnette Ferguson Institute for Astronomy, University of EdinburghFilippo Fraternali Theoretical Physics, University of OxfordKen Freeman RSAA, Mount StromloPeter Frinchaboy University of VirginiaJose Funes Vatican ObservatoryKatia Ganda Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteFabio Governato INAF - University of WashingtonPreben GrosbolPuragra (Raja) Guhathakurta UCO/Lick Observatory, Univ. of California Santa CruzAsao Habe Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido UniversityGeorge Heald University of New MexicoJonathan Heiner Space Telescope Science InstitutePhilippe Héraudeau Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteBenne Willem Holwerda Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteChanda Jog Indian Institute of ScienceRachel Johnson Oxford UniversityBernard Jones Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteNadejda Kaltcheva University of Wisconsin – OshkoshPeter Kamphuis Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteSusan Kassin UCO/Lick Observatory, Univ. of California, Santa CruzRobert Kennicutt Steward ObservatoryLisa Kewley Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of HawaiiJohan Knapen University of HertfordshireKaren Knierman Steward Observatory, University of ArizonaDavid Koo UCO/Lick Obs., Univ. of California, Santa CruzNario Kuno Nobeyama Radio ObservatoryLerothodi Leeuw University of ChicagoYang-Shyang Li Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteUte Lisenfeld Universidad de Granada, SpainJochen Liske ESODonald Lynden-Bell Institute of Astronomy, CambridgeLauren MacArthur University of British ColumbiaGeorge Mamatsashvili Center for Plasma Astrophysics, Abastumani Astroph. Obs.Hidenori Matsui Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido UniversityLynn Matthews Harvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsSharon Meidt University of New MexicoBhasker Moorthy New Mexico State UniversityMarcelo Daniel Mora ESO

European Southern Observatory

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Eric Murphy Yale UniversityPreethi Nair University of TorontoColin Norman The Johns Hopkins UniversityTetyana Nykytyuk Main Astron. Obs. of National Academy of Sciences of UkraineSachiko Onodera Institute of Astronomy, University of TokyoPanos Patsis Research Center for Astronomy, Academy of AthensIsabel Pérez Martin Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteMax Pettini Institute of Astronomy, CambridgeDaniel Pisano Naval Research LaboratoryMichael Pohlen Kapteyn Astronomical InstituutLaura Portinari Tuorla Observatory, Turku UniversityMichael Regan Space Telescope Science InstituteDominik Rosenbaum Astronomisches Institut Ruhr Universtität BochumJoern Rossa Space Telescope Science InstituteRenzo Sancisi Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna & Kapteyn Astron. InstituteJerry Sellwood Rutgers UniversityJoe Silk Astrophysics, University of OxfordLeonie Snijders Leiden ObservatoryJesper Sommer-Larsen Niels Bohr InstituteMario Soto Sterrewacht LeidenJaroslaw Stasielak Institute of Physics, Jagellonian UniversityAnnapurni Subramaniam Indian Institute of AstrophysicsClaire Thomas Liverpool John Moores UniversityEline Tolstoy Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteClemens Trachternach Astronomisches Institut Ruhr Universtität BochumIgnacio Trujillo Max-Planck-Institute für AstronomieTjeerd van Albada Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteJ.M. van der Hulst Kapteyn Astronomical InstitutePiet van der Kruit Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteJacqueline van Gorkom Columbia UniversityLottie van Starkenburg Leiden ObservatoryKim Venn University of VictoriaMarc Verheijen Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteNicole Vogt New Mexico State UniversityKyle Westfall University of WisconsinTony Wong CSIRO ATNF and University of New South WalesRevaz Yves Geneva ObservatoryDennis Zaritsky University of ArizonaSaleem Zaroubi Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteHennie Zondervan Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteMartin Zwaan ESOJackie Zwegers Kapteyn Astronomical Institute

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