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- Editors:
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Luiz Nicolaci Costa
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European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
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Alvio Renzini
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European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
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Table of contents (59 papers)
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Evolution
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- Marco Scodeggio, Riccardo Giovanelli, Martha P. Haynes
Pages 158-163
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- R. F. Peletier, S. P. Willner
Pages 164-169
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- Inger Jørgensen, Jens Hjorth
Pages 175-184
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- Marijn Franx, Dan Kelson, Pieter van Dokkum, Garth Illingworth, Dan Fabricant
Pages 185-196
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- M. A. Pahre, S. G. Djorgovski, R. R. de Carvalho
Pages 197-202
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- R. Guzmán, A. C. Phillips, J. Gallego, D. C. Koo, J. D. Lowenthal
Pages 226-231
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- Philip Best, Malcolm Longair, Huub Röttgering
Pages 232-241
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Applications
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Front Matter
Pages 243-243
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- Adi Nusser, Marc Davis, Jeffrey A. Willick
Pages 286-295
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- R. J. Smith, M. J. Hudson, J. R. Lucey, J. Steel
Pages 296-305
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- R. P. Saglia, Matthew Colless, G. Baggley, Edmund Bertschinger, David Burstein, Roger L. Davies et al.
Pages 306-315
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Posters
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Front Matter
Pages 317-317
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- Enzo Branchini, Manolis Plionis, Idit Zehavi, Avishai Dekel
Pages 322-324
About this book
At close inspection every galaxy appears to have its own individuality.A galaxy can be warped, lop-sided, doubly-nucleated, boxy or disky, ... in its own specific, peculiar way. Hence, for a complete description, galaxy taxonomy may ask for finer and finer classification schemes. However, for some applications it may be more fruitful to let details aside and focus on some global properties of galaxies. One is then seeking to measure just a few quantities for each galaxy, a minimum set of globalobservables that yet captures some essential aspect of these objects. One very successful example of this approach is offered by the scaling rela tions of galaxies, the subject of the international workshop held at ESO head quarters in Garching on November 19-21, 1996. Discovered in the late 1970's, the Tully-Fisher relation for the spirals and the Faber-Jackson relation, or its more recent version the Fundamental Plane, for ellipticals have now become flourishing fields of astronomical research in their own right, as well as being widely used tools for a broad range of astronomical investigations. The work shop was designed to address three key issues on galaxy scaling relations, i.e., their Origins, Evolution, and Applications in astronomy. The Origins of galaxy scaling relations still escape our full understanding.