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Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
List of Illustrations | p. xiii |
Exploring the world of galaxies | p. 1 |
Finding the galaxies | p. 3 |
Galaxy properties: classification and evolving views | p. 11 |
Modern views: universal classes and sealings | p. 18 |
Discovering collisions and interactions | p. 23 |
Collision basics | p. 27 |
Head-on collisions and rings of fire | p. 31 |
Early stage archetypes | p. 31 |
Forging the rare rings | p. 32 |
Why rings? | p. 40 |
How precise a bullseye? Angles and offsets | p. 41 |
Taffy galaxies and shovels: companions with gas disks | p. 44 |
Twice-made rings | p. 47 |
Bejeweled rings | p. 49 |
The mysterious cartwheel: prototype or anomaly? | p. 51 |
Other ways to make rings | p. 53 |
Swinging on by: the tidal twists | p. 57 |
Tides near and far | p. 57 |
Discovering the whirlpool spirals | p. 62 |
Into the tidal whirlpool: understanding the mechanisms | p. 64 |
The foaming waves | p. 68 |
The eye galaxies | p. 71 |
Making bars | p. 72 |
Probing the darkness with tails and dwarfs | p. 75 |
Retrograde encounters: dancing backwards | p. 86 |
Major mergers and their colossal consequences | p. 93 |
Ellipticals from mergers? | p. 93 |
A sticky aside on dynamical friction | p. 96 |
Bringing a little data to the subject | p. 98 |
Relaxing in the merger: quickly and violently! | p. 100 |
Starbursts, super-starbursts and mergers | p. 103 |
A new generation of merger studies | p. 110 |
Starbursts, winds and nuclear activity | p. 114 |
Growing quasars | p. 119 |
Merger models with feedback | p. 123 |
Ellipticals and mergers again | p. 130 |
What happens to the little guy: minor mergers | p. 139 |
Classifications and destructive processes | p. 139 |
Global dynamical friction and anti-friction | p. 145 |
Cumulative effects | p. 149 |
The secret of fire: triggered star formation | p. 155 |
Counting young stars | p. 155 |
The spreading fire | p. 162 |
Attacking the flames with the latest to | p. 167 |
Glowing embers: induced star cluster formation | p. 170 |
Fading embers: star cluster disruption | p. 178 |
How to start the fire | p. 182 |
Forecasting fires | p. 187 |
How did it burn? | p. 195 |
Not always in a galaxy far, far away | p. 201 |
Our Local Group of galaxies | p. 201 |
Collisions here and now: the Magellanic Clouds | p. 203 |
Collisions now and then: contrails in the halo | p. 215 |
... And those yet to come | p. 226 |
A wider view | p. 233 |
In the beginning ... | p. 233 |
Many different evolutionary pathways in groups | p. 239 |
The bright lights of the galaxy metropolis | p. 251 |
Epilogue: the galacto-biology of collisions | p. 261 |
Glossary | p. 1273 |
Resources | p. 277 |
Index | p. 279 |
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