Preface | |
Report on the Progress in Stellar Evolution to 1950 | p. 3 |
Walter Baade's Discovery of the Two Stellar Populations | p. 21 |
The Discovery of the Chemical Composition - Kinematics Connection in the 1950's | p. 31 |
Stellar Evolution and the Population Concept after 1950; The Vatican Conference | p. 39 |
The Galactic Globular Cluster System | p. 51 |
The Stellar Population of a Typical Globular Cluster | p. 67 |
Stars in the Galactic Halo | p. 75 |
Globular Cluster Systems in Other Galaxies | p. 85 |
Evolution of the Galactic Halo and Disk | p. 99 |
Age and Metallicity Distributions among Galactic Disk Stars | p. 109 |
Early-Type Stars | p. 119 |
High Velocity Clouds in the Galaxy | p. 129 |
Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Disk and Bulge | p. 133 |
Stellar Populations in the Magellanic Clouds | p. 153 |
M31 and Companions: A Key to Baade's Stellar Populations Then and Now | p. 165 |
The Stellar Populations in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies | p. 175 |
Star Clusters in Local Group Galaxies | p. 181 |
Dark Matter in the Milky Way | p. 195 |
Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies | p. 205 |
Central Black Holes and Dark Halos in Elliptical Galaxies | p. 215 |
Dark Matter in Clusters of Galaxies | p. 227 |
The UV Upturn in Elliptical Galaxies | p. 239 |
The Stellar Ages of Elliptical Galaxies | p. 249 |
Stellar Populations in S0 Galaxies | p. 259 |
Measuring the Evolution of the M/L Ratio from the Fundamental Plane | p. 269 |
Effects of Late Mergers | p. 275 |
Environmental Effects in the Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies | p. 281 |
The Morphological Evolution for Field Galaxies | p. 291 |
Stellar Populations at Large Redshifts | p. 301 |
Galaxy Evolution from Deep Galaxy Counts | p. 311 |
Formation Models of Galaxies | p. 323 |
Stellar Dating and Formation of Galactic Spheroids | p. 325 |
Panel Discussion on the Classification and Terminology of Stellar Populations | p. 337 |
Conference Summary | p. 349 |
Elemental Abundances of Population I Main Sequence B, A and F Stars and Population II A Stars | p. 359 |
Flare Stars Database II | p. 360 |
New Mg[subscript 2] Indices from New Model Atmospheres | p. 361 |
Automated Spectral Classification of Stars by Means of Objective Prism Spectra | p. 362 |
Complete Stellar Models: Interior and Spectral Evolution of Massive Stars | p. 363 |
The Population and Evolution of A to F Pulsating Stars | p. 364 |
New Algorithms to Calibrate the Stromgren Photometric System in Terms of Metal-to-Hydrogen Ratio | p. 365 |
Supergiant Stars as Tracers of Galactic Chemical Composition | p. 366 |
Automating the Classification of Stellar Spectra | p. 367 |
Colours and Effective Temperatures of Main Sequence Stars Covering the Galactic Metallicity Range | p. 368 |
On the role of Triple Systems in the Dynamics of the Galaxy: Stars with High Velocities | p. 369 |
Stability and Instability of Hierarchical Triple Stars | p. 370 |
Binaries in the Universe | p. 371 |
Isolated Binaries and Triples in N-body Systems | p. 372 |
Kinematics of Orion Association Members | p. 373 |
Open Cluster System: Kinematics, Orbits | p. 374 |
Cepheus OB3: Search for Faint Members | p. 376 |
BVRI CCD Photometry of the Open Cluster IC166 | p. 377 |
Some Physical Parameters and uvby[beta] Photometry of Trapezium-Type Multiple Systems | p. 378 |
Luminosity and Mass Functions for the Pleiades from the Schmidt Survey | p. 379 |
Surveys of Emission-Line Stars in the Outer Part of the Orion Star-Forming Region | p. 380 |
Galactic Distribution of Symbiotic Stars | p. 382 |
Another Source of Local Missing Mass | p. 383 |
The Asymmetric Drift of the Thick Disk Population | p. 384 |
A Project for Investigation of the Stellar Population of the Galactic Disk | p. 385 |
A New Sample of Thick Disk and Halo Stars | p. 386 |
Metallicity Distribution and Kinematics of the Disk and Halo F-G Stars | p. 387 |
The Thick Disc Population of the Galaxy | p. 388 |
The Vertical Structure of the Galactic Disc | p. 389 |
Density of Matter in the Galactic Disk | p. 390 |
The Transition from Disk to Halo as seen from Correlations between Kinematics and Metallicity | p. 391 |
Investigation of Suspected Red Horizontal Branch Stars in the Galactic Field | p. 392 |
Are there Two Populations of sdB Stars Visible in Kinematic Samples? | p. 393 |
An Estimate of the Dark Matter Content in the Galaxy | p. 394 |
Pal 1: A Globular Cluster Anyway? | p. 395 |
Evidence for Primordial Abundance Variations in the Globular Cluster 47 Tuc | p. 396 |
A New Sample of Faint Halo B Stars | p. 397 |
The Age of the Galactic Inner Halo | p. 398 |
Peripheral Members of M67 | p. 399 |
[alpha]-Elements in Bulge Stars: Arp 1145 and Terzan 1-2 | p. 400 |
Three New Contact Binaries Near the Centre of NGC6121 (M4) | p. 401 |
Abundances of Heavy Elements in Halo Stars | p. 402 |
The Scale Height of Blue Halo sdB Stars | p. 403 |
Kinematics of RR Lyrae Stars in the Inner (Old?) Halo | p. 404 |
Kinematics of Galactic Globular Clusters from Schmidt-Plate Astrometry | p. 405 |
The Status of Absolute Proper Motions and the Kinematics of Globular Clusters | p. 406 |
Evolutionary Aspects of the CMD in NGC 6553 | p. 407 |
Low Mass Stars and White Dwarfs in NGC 6397 | p. 408 |
Mapping the Stellar Distribution in Globular Clusters: An Application to NGC 6809 = M55 | p. 409 |
Stromgren Photometry of Stars in Baade's Window | p. 410 |
CCD Photometry in the Globular Cluster M4 | p. 411 |
The Stellar Populations in the Disk of M31 | p. 412 |
Stellar Populations in the Pegasus Dwarf Galaxy | p. 413 |
Disks and Dark Haloes of Dwarf Spirals | p. 414 |
Two Different Stellar Populations in the Large Magellanic Cloud? | p. 415 |
Chemical Content of Nine F-Supergiants from Different Regions of the LMC | p. 416 |
The Resolved Stellar Populations of Leo A and GR8 | p. 417 |
The Velocity Dispersions of the Draco and Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies | p. 418 |
Size and Kinematic Aspects of the SMC According to the Catalogue of Bischoff Florsch - Marcout | p. 420 |
Dark Matter Inside and Around Binary Galaxies: Formation of Interacting Galaxies | p. 422 |
The Vertical Age Distribution of Stellar Disk Populations in Edge-on Galaxies | p. 423 |
Star and Globular Cluster Formation in Mergers | p. 424 |
Where Does Star Formation End in NGC 1058 | p. 425 |
Metallicity of Stars and Gas in Galaxies of Different Hubble Types | p. 426 |
Edge-on Galaxies - Dust Influence and Thick Disks | p. 427 |
Emission Lines in Star Forming Galaxies | p. 428 |
Local and Global Optical, Far-Infrared (FIR) and X-ray Properties of the FIR quiescent Sc Galaxy NGC 247 | p. 429 |
Stellar Populations of Dwarf Galaxies | p. 430 |
Discovery of Cepheids in M100 and M101 | p. 432 |
Stellar Populations in Mixed Pairs of Galaxies | p. 434 |
Dark Matter in the Polar Ring Spiral NGC 660 | p. 435 |
Surface Brightness Fluctuations and the Stellar Population in Elliptical Galaxies | p. 436 |
New Metallicity Scale of Elliptical Galaxies | p. 437 |
A Decoupled Nucleus in NGC 1052 | p. 438 |
A Study of the Stellar Populations of NGC 3516 | p. 439 |
Chemodynamic and Photometric Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies | p. 440 |
The M87 Globular Cluster System | p. 441 |
Near-IR Imaging of Elliptical Galaxies | p. 443 |
HST Far-UV Imaging of M31, M32 and NGC 205 | p. 444 |
UV Central Spikes in Early Type Galaxies | p. 445 |
The Dark Massive Halo in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5266 | p. 446 |
Metallicity of NGC 5128 Globular Clusters | p. 447 |
The Age Spread among Galaxies and the Origin of the UV Radiation from Elliptical Galaxies | p. 448 |
The UV Content of Virgo Cluster Galaxies | p. 450 |
Enhanced Star Formation rates in Binary Interacting Elliptical Galaxies | p. 452 |
Line Strength Profiles in Early-Type Galaxies | p. 453 |
Dark Matter in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies | p. 454 |
Radio Source Counts at Ultra-Low Frequencies | p. 455 |
Formation of cD-Galaxies and Gravitational Lenses: Computer Simulations | p. 456 |
Metal Abundances of Damped Ly[alpha] Systems and the Chemical Evolution of Spiral Galaxies | p. 457 |
Synthetic Spectra for Single-Aged Populations | p. 458 |
Blue Galaxies in Distant Clusters | p. 459 |
Determination of Young Population Ages in Cluster Galaxies | p. 460 |
Ultraviolet Population Synthesis of Starburst Galaxies Observed with HST | p. 461 |
The Nature of the Emission Galaxies in the Canada France Redshift Survey - CFRS | p. 462 |
Populations in the z = 0.23 Rich Cluster Abell 2390 | p. 463 |
Index | p. 465 |
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