The Interplay Between Massive Star Formation, the ISM and Galaxy Evolution: Proceedings of the 11th IAP Astrophysics Meeting, July 3-8, 1995, Institut D'Astrophysique de Paris

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Atlantica Séguier Frontières, 1996 - Cosmology - 624 pages
 

Contents

Star Formation and Galactic Evolution
3
PreMS Evolution and Tracers of Star Formation
17
The Role of Winds from Hot Stars in Galaxy Evolution
27
WolfRayet Stars in Starbursts
37
Effect of Galactic Winds?
47
HST Images of Massive Compact Multiple Systems
61
The ColourMagnitude Diagrams of three Nearby Dwarf Irregular Galaxies
67
Type Ia Supernovae and the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
83
The IMF in Starburst Clusters
249
A Theory for the Stellar Initial Mass Function
259
the XRay View
265
HI and Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
275
Properties and Evolution of Star Formation in Barred Galaxies
283
Star Formation Rate History of Galaxies
297
GalaxyScale Schmidt Law From FarInfrared Properties
307
Ultraviolet studies of Massive Star Formation in Galaxies
315

The Rates of Type Ia and II Supernovae
89
SmallScale Structure of PreStarForming Molecular Clouds
95
How Much Molecules in Galaxies? The ICONH2 Conversion
105
Millimeter Spectroscopy in Galaxies
115
The Evolution of Molecular Clouds
121
The Small Scale Distribution of the Dust inside Molecular Clouds
127
Far Infrared Emission in Galaxies Origin and Interpretation
143
The Evolution of Supernova Remnants
151
Superbubbles and Superwinds in Starburst Galaxies
159
Superbubble Blowout
169
ROSAT Observations of XRay Emission from Superbubbles
179
Large Scale Transport and Mixing in the Interstellar Medium of GasRich Galaxies
187
Abundances in the HI Galactic Winds and Lyman Alpha Emission
195
The Interplay Between Massive Stars and the ISM in the LMC
201
Galactic Fountains
211
Global Structure of the Multiphase Interstellar Medium
223
Overall Models of the Interstellar Medium
233
HST UV Imaging of Starburst Regions
321
The Ultraviolet Structure of Starbursts
333
Star Formation in the Nuclei of Spiral Galaxies
341
Optical Structure and Star Formation in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
347
Galaxy Formation and Related Topics
355
Synthetic Models for Evolving Starbursts and their Associated HII Regions
367
A Chimere?
395
Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Irregular and Blue Compact Galaxies
411
The Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Disk
425
Semianalytic Models of Galaxy Formation
443
Simulations of Galaxy Formation in Hierarchically Clustering Universes
457
Conference Summary I
469
Conference Summary II
475
Newly Born
489
Mass Calibration and Hydrodynamics in the Cepheus Flare
495
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