Galactic Dynamics

In the entries listed below the preprint title, the authors (highlighted those present at Geneva Observatory), the reference, and the date of insertion in the database is given. Abstracts and/or the complete Postscript file can be retrieved. The files (regular or gzipped Postscript) are also available by ftp at "obsftp.unige.ch" in the directory "pub/Preprints".

• "Lumpy structures in self-gravitating disks"
  by Daniel Huber, Daniel Pfenniger
  May 2001, A&A in press
  [Abstract], [Postscript, high-res. pictures (10MB)], [Astroph with smaller figures]

• "Fragmentation in kinematically cold disks"
  by Daniel Huber, Daniel Pfenniger
  to appear in "The Promise of FIRST"
  Eds. G.L. Pilbratt, J. Cernicharo, A.M. Heras, T. Prusti and R. Harris, ESA SP-460
  January 2001, [Abstract], [Postscript (3.3MB)]

• "N-body simulations of open self-gravitating systems"
  by Daniel Huber,
  to appear in "The Promise of FIRST"
  Eds. G.L. Pilbratt, J. Cernicharo, A.M. Heras, T. Prusti and R. Harris, ESA SP-460
  January 2001, [Abstract], [Postscript (470kB)]

• "Scaling Laws in Self-gravitating Disks"
  by Daniel Huber, Daniel Pfenniger
  to appear in "The Evolution of Galaxies on Cosmological Timescales"
  Eds. J.E. Beckman and T.J. Mahoney, Astrophysics and Space Science
  April 1999, [Abstract], [Postscript (1200kB)]

• "3D self-consistent N-body barred models of the Milky Way
  II. Gas dynamics"
  by Roger Fux
  Accepted for publication in A&A
  March 4th, 1999: [Abstract] , [Postscript (3167kB)] , MPEG movies

• "Evidence for a signature of the galactic bar in the solar neighbourhood"
  by D. Raboud, M. Grenon, L. Martinet, R. Fux and S. Udry
  Accepted in A&A Letters [Postscript, 161kb, figures included]

• "Interpreting the main HI and CO l-V features in the Galactic bar from self-consistent stellar and gas dynamical models"
  by Roger Fux
  To appear in the IAU Symp 184 on "Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies", ed. Y. Sofue, Kyoto, August 1997 [Postscript (130kB)]

• "3D self-consistent N-body barred models of the Milky Way
  I. Stellar dynamics"
  by Roger Fux
  Accepted for publication in A&A
  June 23th, 1997: [Abstract] , [Postscript (1170kB)]

• "Nuclear and circumnuclear bar-induced starbursts"
  by Daniel Friedli and Louis Martinet
  Contributed talk at the conference "Starburst Activity in Galaxies".
  June 17th, 1996: [Abstract] , [Postscript (369kB)]

• "Secular evolution of galaxy morphologies"
  by Daniel Pfenniger
  To appear in the Proceedings of the "Cold Dust-Morphology Conference" (Kluwer), Johannesburg 22-26 January, 1996.
  February 28th, 1996: [Abstract] , [Postscript (43kB)]

• "Fundamental aspects of the ISM fractality"
  by Daniel Pfenniger
  To appear in the Proceedings of the "Cold Dust-Morphology Conference" (Kluwer), Johannesburg 22-26 January, 1996.
  February 28th, 1996: [Abstract] , [Postscript (31kB)]

• "Very cold gas and dark matter"
  by F. Combes and Daniel Pfenniger
  To appear in the Proceedings of the "Cold Dust-Morphology Conference" (Kluwer), Johannesburg 22-26 January, 1996.
  February 28th, 1996: [Abstract] , [Postscript (51kB)] (without Figs. 1, 2 and 3a)
  [Fig.1 (10kB)] , [Fig.2 (6kB)] , [Fig.3a (3kB)]

• "Counter-rotating bars within bars"
  by Daniel Friedli
  Accepted for publication in A&A
  February 22nd, 1996: [Abstract] , [Postscript (142kB)] (without Figs. 2, 3 and 4)
  [Fig.2 (1.0MB)] , [Fig.3 (0.9MB)] , [Fig.4 (0.9MB)]

• "Disc galaxies with multiple triaxial structures
  II. JHK surface photometry and numerical simulations"
  by Daniel Friedli, Hervé Wozniak, Marcia Rieke, Louis Martinet and Pierre Bratschi
  Accepted for publication in A&AS
  February 22nd, 1996: [Abstract] , [Postscript (189kB)] (without Figs. 1)
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