Spiral Galaxies in the Near-IR, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Proceedings of the ESO/MPA Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 7–9 June 1995
ESO Astrophysics Symposia Series

From June 7-9, 1995, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Max Plank Institut fiir Astrophysik (MPA) jointly held the Workshop on Spiral Galaxies in the Near-IR. This meeting took place at the ESO headquarters in Garching bei Miinchen, Germany. The weather waschanging, with the biergarten closed, but that did not stop 85 people from allover the world from attending the meeting. The three days were intensive, with talks and coffee and posters from 9 am to 6 pm, and very productive indeed for everyone. The topics covered the stellar populations of the Milky Way and other more distant spirals, the role of dust, the dynamics of spiral galaxies, and the nuclear activity seen at near-IR wavelengths. This volume presents the original contributions from the participants, including several papers that review the state-of-the-art knowledge in these various subjects. The editors would like to thank first and foremost Christina Stoffer, for she took care of everything. The meeting would not have been so successful without her expertise and efficiency. We are deeply indebted to the directors of MPA and ESO Science, Simon White and Jacqueline Bergeron, for their support and encouragement. We would also like to thank the other members of the scientific organizing committee: R. Genzel, K. Freeman, A. Moorwood, S. White, M. Rieke and E. Athannasoula, for their advice with the organization of the program. We also thank G. Rieke, R. Genzel, L. Athannasoula, A. Renzini and R.

I. Stellar Populations in the IR.- When Do Near-IR Colors Help in Studying Stellar Populations?.- Photometric and Spectrophotometric Models in the NIR.- Stellar Libraries: Spectral Features in the Near-IR.- New Spectrophotometric Population Synthesis Models of Ellipticals and Early-Type Spirals.- Infrared Colour Gradients in Spiral Galaxies.- Colour Gradients in the Optical and Near-IR.- Stellar Populations of Bulges and Disks: New Insights from Near-IR Colours.- Determining the Contribution of Young Stars to Near-IR Light.- How Much Do Young Stars Contribute to the K-band Light?.- II. IR Observations of Local Group Galaxies.- The Brightest Stars in the Galactic Bulge.- Imaging of Local Group Bulge Populations in the Near-IR.- Origin of Bulges.- The Milky Way in the Near-IR, First Results of DENIS.- HST Observations of the Ionizing Star Cluster NGC 595 in the Spiral Galaxy M 33.- Discovery of the Galactic Bar Population.- Integrated Infrared Colors of Star Clusters in the Galaxy and M 31.- III. Dynamical Structure of Spiral Galaxies.- Observational Evidence for a Compact Dark Mass at the Galactic Center.- Applications of a Self-Consistent Model for the Galactic Bar.- Towards a Three-Dimensional Model of the Galaxy.- On the Deprojection of Axisymmetric and Triaxial Stellar Systems.- Near-IR Observations and Dynamics of Barred Galaxies.- Studying Galaxy Dynamics with IR Images.- Dynamical Evolution of Disk Galaxies.- Disk Dynamics Based on Near-IR Photometry.- Measuring Spiral Arm Torques: M 100 in K.- Galaxy as Dynamical System with Accreting Halo.- Near-IR Measurements of Kinematics in Luminous Galaxies.- IV. IR Observations of Disk Galaxies.- Galaxies with the DENIS 2 Micron Survey: A Preliminary Report.- How Good Is the Near-IR Tully-Fisher Relation?.- Near-IR Imagingof Late-Type Virgo Cluster Galaxies.- Near-IR Surface Photometry of 400 Late-Type Galaxies.- Nonaxisymmetric Structures in Stellar Disks.- Azimuthai Color Gradients in M 99.- Spiral Disk Asymmetries and Other Evidence of Accretion in Nearby Galaxies.- Mass Models from Near-IR Surface Photometry.- NIR Imaging and Modeling of the Core of M100.- Edge-On Spiral Galaxies: from Optical to Near-IR.- Dynamical Evolution and Population Analysis of Galactic Disks from Optical and Infrared Colour Profiles in Edge-On Galaxies.- Orbits in the Bar of NGC4314.- Multiband Analysis of Central-Region Features.- V. Modeling the Dust.- The History and Future of Extinction Models.- 3D Radiative Transfer Models of Galaxies.- Near-IR Colors: The Structure of Dust Lanes in Barred Galaxies.- K’ Band Observations of the Evil Eye Galaxy and the Implied K’ Band Dust Albedo.- Probing the Optical Depth of Spirals Using Multi-waveband Observations.- Dust Extinction from Paschen-Balmer Lines.- VI. Nuclear Activity: Clues from the IR.- Evidence for Biased IMFs.- IR Spectra and the L/M Ratio in Seyfert and Starburst Galaxies.- Near-IR Emission Lines in the Active Nuclei of Spiral Galaxies.- Near-IR Properties of Quasar and Seyfert Host Galaxies.- Near-IR View of the Nuclear Region of NGC 1808.- Revealing the Origin of Nuclear Starbursts in Late-Type Spirals: IC 342.- The Nature of Nuclear Starbursts: M 82.- Near-IR Imaging of the Central Regions in NGC 1068 and NGC 7552.- Near-IR and MM Imaging Spectroscopy of the Nuclear Region of NGC 1068.- Near-IR Imaging Spectroscopy of F 10214: Evidence for a Starburst Around an AGN at Z = 2.284.- K-Band Imaging of Arp’s Interacting Spirals.- Starburst Episodes Near the Galactic Center.- When Is a Merger not a Merger?.- Author Index.