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The Galaxy (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
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The Galaxy (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Series: NATO Science Series C, 207
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The Milky Way Galaxy offers a unique opportunity to study the
structure and contents of a major stellar system in three
dimensions, at high spatial and spectral resolution, and to very
large galactocentric distances. This potential can be realised only
by statistical surveys of large areas of the sky, and by detailed
study of specific regions with exceptional properties, such as the
Galactic centre, and of specific classes of object, such as the
globular clusters. The acquisition of such data from a variety of
ground-based and satellite surveys has been a primary topic of
Galactic research for some years. Several such surveys have been
completed recently, and have led to a substantial modification of
our understanding of Galactic structure and evolution. The
importance of the ability of satellite observatories to survey and
to study wavelengths which are inaccessible from the ground is
evident in the wealth of data discussed and analysed in this volume
which is derived from satellites, specifically COS-B, HEAD-I,
HEAO-3, IRAS, PIONEER-lO, SAS-2, and TENMA. The cru cial role of
ground-based observations to complement and comprehend the
satellite data is also well evident. Similarly, the major
ground-based studies whose results are reported here illustrate the
necessity for carefully conceived and executed very large scale
surveys of many types of object and many parts of parameter space
before a coherent picture of the Galaxy will be available."
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