The Local Group provides an interesting and representative sample of galaxies in the rest of the Universe. The high accuracy with which many problems can be...
The Nature, Purpose and Future of Conference Proceedings
Published conference proceedings have been called both a great advancement and a despicable curse for astronomy. In reality, they simply fill a niche that any...
The NAVOO Project: Photometry for AM CVn Candidates
AM CVn systems are a subclass of cataclysmic variables where two DB WDs exchange H-depleted material under short period orbits -in the range approx. 5 - 65...
Near-Infrared J H K images are presented for a small sample of HII galaxies observed at UKIRT. Based on NIR colours, comparison with the stellar population...
The Near-Infrared S0 Survey: A Study of Bar Strengths in Early-Type Galaxies
The Near-Infrared S0 Survey (NIRS0S; Laurikainen, Salo, and Buta 2005, MNRAS, 362, 1319) is an attempt to obtain a statistically well-defined database of images...
A new near-infrared camera, SHARP (System for High Angular Resolution Pictures), has been used at the 3.5m ESO NTI' to produce near-diffraction-limited K-band...