Teaching Nearby, Learning Nearby

Probes for Nearby

Data are given for sixteen extragalactic objects (predominantly AGN) behind the Magellanic Clouds and for 146 quasar candidates behind the nearby were identiied by their X-ray emission, and precise optical and X-ray positions and optical photometry and spectra are presented for all of these. The quasar candidates surrounding the other nearby galaxies were identiied through a CFHT slitless spect...

Kinematics of Nearby Subdwarfs

A sample of subdwarfs with accurate space velocities and stan-darized metallicities is presented. This was constructed by combining Hip-parcos parallaxes and proper motions with radial velocities and metallicities from Carney et al. (1994; CLLA). The accurate Hipparcos parallaxes lead to an-upward-correction factor of 11% of the photometric distance scale of CLLA. The kinematical behaviour of t...

Normal Nearby Galaxies *

Following on from IRAS, ISO has provided a huge advancement in our knowledge of the phenomenology of the infrared (IR) emission of normal galaxies and the underlying physical processes. Highlights include: the discovery of an extended cold dust emission component, present in all types of gas-rich galaxies and carrying the bulk of the dust luminosity; the definitive characterisation of the spect...

The Nearby Field Galaxy

The Great Austral Nearby

Observing ROSAT sources in an area covering ∼30% of the Southern Hemisphere, we found evidences for a great nearby association (GAYA), comprising the proposed associations of Horologium (HorA) and the eastern part of Tucana (TucA), formed by at least 44 Post-T Tauri stars. The stars of the GAYA have similar space velocity components rel-0 ± 2.2) km/s and their Li line intensities are between th...