WINDOWS ON GALAXIES ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY A SERIES OF BOOKS ON THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF SPACE SCIENCE AND OF GENERAL GEOPHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS PUBLISHED IN CONNECTION WITH THE JOURNAL SPACE SCmNCE REVmwS Editorial Board R. L. F. BOYD, University College, London, England W. B. BURTON, Sterrewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands C. DE lAGER, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands 1. KLECZEK, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ondfejov, Czechoslavakia Z. KOPAL, University of Manchester, England R. LOST, European Space Agency, Paris, France L. I. SEDOV, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow, U.S.S.R. Z. SvESTKA, Laboratory for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands VOLUME 160 PROCEEDINGS WINDOWS ON GALAXIES PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH WORKSHOP OF THE ADVANCED SCHOOL OF ASTRONOMY OF THE ETTORE MAJORANA CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE, ERICE,ITALY, MAY 21-31,1989 edited by GIUSEPPINA FABBIANO Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. JOHN S. GALLAGHER AURA Inc., Washington, DC, U.S.A. and ALV IO RENZINI Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita di Bologna, Italy KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Windows on galaxies: proceedings of the sixth workshop of the Advanced School of Astronomy of the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scient1fic Culture, Erice, Italy, May 21-31, 1989 ! edited by Giuseppina Fabbiano, John S. Gallagher, and Alvio Renzini. p. em. -- (Astrophysics and space sclence \ibrary , v. 180) ISBN-13:978-94-010-6731-7 e-ISBN-13:978-94-009-0543-6 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-94-009-0543-6 1. Galaxies--Congresses. I. Fabbiano. Giuseppina. II: Gallagher, John S. (John Sill). 1947- III. Renzini, Alvio. IV. Ettore Majorana International Ceotre for Scientific Culture. Advanced Schoo I of ,Astronomy. V. Ser i es. OB858.W54 1990 523.1' 12--dc20 89-78507 ISBN -13: 978-94-010-6731-7 Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17,3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Publishers incorporates the publishing programmes of D. Reidel, Martinus Nijhoff, Dr W. Junk and MTP Press. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Ac;ademic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 1990 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. TABLE OF CONTENTS CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH x PREFACE ri LIST OF PARTICIPANTS riii J. Gallagher and G. Fabbiano PANCHROMATIC OBSERVATIONS OF GALAXIES: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 1 Michele Kaufman and Frank N. Bash A MULTI-WAVELENGTH STUDY OF M81 5 S. Djorgovski and R. de Carvalho OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF EARLY TYPE GALAXIES 9 Massimo Capaccioli and Giuseppe Longo FIRST STEPS TOWARDS A PHYSICAL CLASSIFICATION OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 23 N. Visvanathan THE COLOUR-ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE RELATION FOR THE E GALAXIES IN THE V AND 1.05 MICRON WAVE BANDS 33 Robert W. O'Connell STAR FORMING GALAXIES IN THE ULTRAVIOLET 39 L. M. Buson, F. Bertola, and D. Burstein THE FAR-UV SPECTRA OF EARLY TYPE GALAXIES 51 Laura Greggio and Alvio Renzini HOT STARS IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 63 David S. De Young STAR FORMATION IN HIGH REDSHIFT RADIO GALAXIES 69 S. Di Serego Alighieri A POLARIZING WINDOW ON HIGH RED SHIFT RADIO GALAXIES 75 R. Chini SUB-mm OBSERVATIONS OF GALAXIES 77 vi Roberto Terlevich ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AS STARBURSTS. MODELLING THE MULTIFREQUENCY SPECTRUM 87 Howard A. Bushouse AN OPTICAL, FAR-INFRARED AND CO SURVEY OF INTERACTING GALAXIES 97 B. T. Soifer IRAS OBSERVATIONS OF GALAXIES 101 G. Helou, B.F. Madore, M.D. Bicay, M. Schmitz, and J. Liang THE NASAjIPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE 109 George Helou and Michael D. Bicay THE RADIO-INFRARED CORRELATION WITHIN GALAXIES 115 Carol J. Lonsdale GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE FAR INFRARED 121 John Scalo TOP-HEAVY IMFs IN STARBURST GALAXIES 125 E. Hummel THE LARGE-SCALE RADIO CONTINUUM EMISSION OF SPIRAL GALAXIES 141 U. Klein STAR FORMATION AND RADIO EMISSION 157 L. Gregorini, A. Messina, and G. Vettolani RADIO PROPERTIES OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES WITH DUST LANES 169 Harding E. Smith LYMAN ALPHA ABSORPTION SYSTEMS AND THE EVOLUTION OF DISK GALAXIES 173 M. G. Watson THE MILKY WAY IN X-RAYS 177 G. Trinchieri THE X-RAY SOURCES OF M31 191 vii Qingde Wang THE DIFFUSE X-RAY EMISSION FROM THE LMC 195 Renzo Sancisi PECULIAR HI IN AND AROUND GALAXIES 199 R. Brent Tully PHOTOMETRIC-KINEMATIC CORRELATIONS FOR SPIRALS 205 Judith S. Young THE MOLECULAR CONTENT OF GALAXIES 213 Frank Bash, D. T. Jaffe, and W.F. Wall CO J=3-2 OBSERVATIONS OF M51 227 G. Fabbiano X-RAY PROPERTIES OF GALAXIES IN A MULTIWAVELENGTH SETTING 231 T. Ohashi, K.Makishima, T. Mihara, T. Tsuru, H. Awaki, K. Koyama, S. Takano, and H. Kondo X-RAY STUDY OF NORMAL GALAXIES WITH GINGA 243 Alvio Renzini THE EVOLVING STELLAR CONTENT OF GALAXIES AND THE X-RAY EVOLUTION OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 255 William G. Mathews THE INS AND OUTS OF GAS FLOWS IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 265 A. D'Ercole, L. Ciotti, S. Pellegrini, and A. Renzini THE INFLUENCE OF CENTRAL DENSITY AND EXTERNAL PRESSURE ON GAS FLOWS IN ELLIPTICALS 275 Craig L. Sarazin and Raymond E. White III THE X-RAY EMISSION OF NORMAL ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT 279 M. Jura COLD INTERSTELLAR MATTER IN EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES: A PROGRESS REPORT 283 D.-W. Kim and G. Fabbiano THE HOT AND COLD INTERSTELLAR MATTER OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES AND THEIR RADIO EMISSION 293 viii Av ery Meiksin THE EVOLUTION OF COOLING FLOWS ONTO CENTRAL DOMINANT GALAXIES 297 S. Di Serego Alighieri, G. Trinchieri, and E. Brocato Ha IMAGING OF X-RAY LUMINOUS EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES: CLUES ON THE HOT, WARM AND COLD PHASES OF THE ISM 301 S. Djorgovski and R. de Carvalho OPTICAL AND X-RAY PROPERTIES OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 307 Colin A. Norman SOME ASPECT OF STARBURST GALAXIES 311 G. Hensler and A. Burkert CHEMO-DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES 321 D. Alloin, E. Bica, and A. Schmidt DISENTANGLING AGE FROM METALLICITY EFFECTS IN COMPOSITE STELLAR SYSTEMS 333 G. Bertin DYNAMICS OF SPIRAL AND ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 341 Willem A. Baan MEGAMASERS AND GALAXY EVOLUTION 351 J. Gallagher CONCLUDING REMARKS 357 POSTER PAPERS 361 SUBJECT INDEX 381 ix POSTER PAPERS C. Baffa, C. Giovanardi, and L. K. Hunt NEAR INFRARED SPIRAL STRUCTURE IN NGC 6946 363 M. Girardi, G. Giuricin, F. Mardirossian, and M. Mezzetti DUST IN NEARBY GALAXY GROUPS? 364 Agatiiio Rifatto THE OPTICAL EXTINCTION LAW IN THE EARLY-TYPE GALAXY NGC2534 365 R. A. Gerber, S. A. Lamb, R. H. Miller, and B. F. Smith POTENTIAL SITES FOR STAR FORMATION IN COLLIDING GALAXIES 366 M. A. Shaw and R.-J. Dettmar CHARACTERISING "BOX/PEANUT" GALACTIC BULGES 367 F. J. Carrera and X. Barcons SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE SMALL-SCALE ISOTROPY OF THE X-RAY BACKGROUND 369 Giovanni Busarello and Giuseppe Longo THE KINETIC ENERGY IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 371 Joseph E. Pesce, A. C. Fabian, A. C. Edge, and R. M. Johnstone THE PREDOMINANCE OF COOLS FLOWING IN CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES AND THE MEDIUM SENSITIVITY SURVEYS 372 J. M. Solanes, E. Salvador-Sole, and M. Sanroma THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENT ON THE LUMINOSITY OF DISK-GALAXY COMPONENTS 373 M. B. Vila, R. D. Davies, D. J. Axon, A. Pedlar, and E. Hummel RADIO AND OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE NUCLEI OF Sbc GALAXIES 375 M. L. Garda-Vargas, A. I. Diaz, R. Terlevich, and E. Terlevich A STAR FORMATION SCENARIO FOR THE EXPLANATION OF SEYFERT TYPE 2 ACTIVITY: MK 348 379