Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Names and addresses of participants
- Conference photograph
- Spiral waves in Saturn's rings
- Structure of the Uranian rings
- Planetary rings: theory
- Simulations of light scattering in planetary rings
- Accretion discs around young stellar objects and the proto-Sun
- The β Pictoris disc: a planetary rather than a protoplanetary one
- Optical polarimetry and thermal imaging of the disc around β Pictoris
- Observations of discs around protostars and young stars
- VLA observations of ammonia toward molecular outflow sources
- Derivation of the physical properties of molecular discs by an MEM method
- Masers associated with discs around young stars
- The nature of polarisation discs around young stars
- The correlation between the main parameters of the interstellar gas (including Salpeter's spectrum of masses) as a result of the development of turbulent Rossby waves
- Discs in cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries
- A disc instability model for soft X-ray transients containing black holes
- X-ray variability from the accretion disc of NGC 5548
- Viscously heated coronae and winds around accretion discs
- Optical emission line profiles of symbiotic stars
- The effect of formation of Fell in winds confined to discs for luminous stars
- Observational evidence for accretion discs in active galactic nuclei
- The fuelling of active galactic nuclei by non-axisymmetric instabilities
- The circum-nuclear disc in the Galactic centre
- Non-axisymmetric instabilities in thin self-gravitating differentially rotating gaseous discs
- Non-linear evolution of non-axisymmetric perturbations in thin self-gravitating gaseous discs
- Eccentric gravitational instabilities in nearly Keplerian discs
- Gravity mode instabilities in accretion tori
- The stability of viscous supersonic shear flows – critical Reynolds numbers and their implications for accretion discs
- Asymptotic analysis of overstable convective modes of uniformly rotating stars
- Polytropic models in very rapid rotation
- Distribution and kinematics of gas in galaxy discs
- Are the smallest galaxies optically invisible?
- Can we understand the constancy of rotation curves?
- How well do we know the surface density of the Galactic disc?
- On the heating of the Galactic disc
- The bulge-disc interaction in galactic centres
- Dynamics of the large-scale disc in NGC 1068
- The flow of gas in barred galaxies
- The warped dust lane in A1029-459
- Structure and evolution of dissipative non-planar galactic discs
- Non-axisymmetric magnetic fields in turbulent gas discs
- Non-axisymmetric disturbances in galactic discs
- Spiral instabilities in N-body simulations
- Long-lived spiral waves in N-body simulations
- Overstable modes in stellar disc systems
- Galactic seismological approach to the spiral galaxy NGC 3198
- Characteristics of bars from 3-D simulations
- Spirals and bars in linear theory
- Stellar hydrodynamical solutions for Eddington discs
- Theory of gradient instabilities of the gaseous Galactic disc and rotating shallow water
- Stability criteria for gravitating discs
- Stability of two-component galactic discs
- The smoothed particle hydrodynamics of galactic discs
- Tidal triggering of active disc galaxies by rich clusters
- The formation of spiral arms in early stages of galaxy interaction
- Formation of leading spiral arms in retrograde galaxy encounters
- The influence of galaxy interactions on stellar bars
- Disc galaxies – work in progress in Gothenburg
- Motion of a satellite in a disc potential
- Observer's summary
- Common processes and problems in disc dynamics
- Citation index
- Index of authors
- Subject index
Names and addresses of participants
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Names and addresses of participants
- Conference photograph
- Spiral waves in Saturn's rings
- Structure of the Uranian rings
- Planetary rings: theory
- Simulations of light scattering in planetary rings
- Accretion discs around young stellar objects and the proto-Sun
- The β Pictoris disc: a planetary rather than a protoplanetary one
- Optical polarimetry and thermal imaging of the disc around β Pictoris
- Observations of discs around protostars and young stars
- VLA observations of ammonia toward molecular outflow sources
- Derivation of the physical properties of molecular discs by an MEM method
- Masers associated with discs around young stars
- The nature of polarisation discs around young stars
- The correlation between the main parameters of the interstellar gas (including Salpeter's spectrum of masses) as a result of the development of turbulent Rossby waves
- Discs in cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries
- A disc instability model for soft X-ray transients containing black holes
- X-ray variability from the accretion disc of NGC 5548
- Viscously heated coronae and winds around accretion discs
- Optical emission line profiles of symbiotic stars
- The effect of formation of Fell in winds confined to discs for luminous stars
- Observational evidence for accretion discs in active galactic nuclei
- The fuelling of active galactic nuclei by non-axisymmetric instabilities
- The circum-nuclear disc in the Galactic centre
- Non-axisymmetric instabilities in thin self-gravitating differentially rotating gaseous discs
- Non-linear evolution of non-axisymmetric perturbations in thin self-gravitating gaseous discs
- Eccentric gravitational instabilities in nearly Keplerian discs
- Gravity mode instabilities in accretion tori
- The stability of viscous supersonic shear flows – critical Reynolds numbers and their implications for accretion discs
- Asymptotic analysis of overstable convective modes of uniformly rotating stars
- Polytropic models in very rapid rotation
- Distribution and kinematics of gas in galaxy discs
- Are the smallest galaxies optically invisible?
- Can we understand the constancy of rotation curves?
- How well do we know the surface density of the Galactic disc?
- On the heating of the Galactic disc
- The bulge-disc interaction in galactic centres
- Dynamics of the large-scale disc in NGC 1068
- The flow of gas in barred galaxies
- The warped dust lane in A1029-459
- Structure and evolution of dissipative non-planar galactic discs
- Non-axisymmetric magnetic fields in turbulent gas discs
- Non-axisymmetric disturbances in galactic discs
- Spiral instabilities in N-body simulations
- Long-lived spiral waves in N-body simulations
- Overstable modes in stellar disc systems
- Galactic seismological approach to the spiral galaxy NGC 3198
- Characteristics of bars from 3-D simulations
- Spirals and bars in linear theory
- Stellar hydrodynamical solutions for Eddington discs
- Theory of gradient instabilities of the gaseous Galactic disc and rotating shallow water
- Stability criteria for gravitating discs
- Stability of two-component galactic discs
- The smoothed particle hydrodynamics of galactic discs
- Tidal triggering of active disc galaxies by rich clusters
- The formation of spiral arms in early stages of galaxy interaction
- Formation of leading spiral arms in retrograde galaxy encounters
- The influence of galaxy interactions on stellar bars
- Disc galaxies – work in progress in Gothenburg
- Motion of a satellite in a disc potential
- Observer's summary
- Common processes and problems in disc dynamics
- Citation index
- Index of authors
- Subject index
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- Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs , pp. xi - xvPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989