Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs (Paperback, Revised)

Preface; Names and addresses of participants; Conference photograph; 1. Spiral waves in Saturn's rings; 2. Structure of the Uranian rings; 3. Planetary rings: theory; 4. Simulations of light scattering in planetary rings; 5. Accretion discs around young stellar objects and the proto-Sun; 6. The ß Pictoris disc: a planetary rather than a protoplanetary one; 7. Optical polarimetry and thermal imaging of the disc axound ß Pictoris; 8. Observations of discs around protostars and young stars; 9. VLA observations of ammonia towaxd moleculax outflow sources; 10. Derivation of the physical properties of molecular discs by an MEM method; 11. Masers associated with discs around young stars; 12. The nature of polarisation discs axound young stars; 13. The correlation between the main parameters of the interstellar gas (including Salpeter's spectrum of masses) as a result of the development of turbulent Rossby waves; 14. Discs in cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries; 15. A disc instability model for soft X-ray transients containing black holes; 16. X-ray variability from the accretion disc of NGC 5548; 17. Viscously heated coronae and winds around accretion discs; 18. Optical emission line profiles of symbiotic stars; 19. The effect of formation of Fell in winds confined to discs for luminous stars; 20. Observational evidence for accretion discs in active galactic nuclei; 21. The fuelling of active galactic nuclei by non-axisynlinetric instabilities; 22. The circum-nuclear disc in the Galactic centre; 23. Non-axisymmetric instabilities in thin self-gravitating differentially rotating gaseous discs; 24. Non-linear evolution of non-axisymmetric perturbations in thin self-gravitating gaseous discs; 25. Eccentric gravitational instabilities in nearly Keplerian discs; 26. Gravity mode instabilities in accretion tori; 27. The stability of viscous supersonic shear flows - critical Reynolds numbers and their implications for accretion discs; 28. Asymptotic analysis of overstable convective modes of uniformly rotating stars; 29. Polytropic models in very rapid rotation; 30. Distribution and kinematics of gas in galaxy discs; 31. Are the smallest galaxies optically invisible?; 32. Can we understand the constancy of rotation curves?; 33. How well do we know the surface density of the Galactic disc?; 34. On the heating of the Galactic disc; 35. The bulge-disc interaction in galactic centres; 36. Dynamics of the large-scale disc in NGC 1068; 37. The flow of gas in barred galaxies; 38. The warped dust lane in A1029-459; 39. Structure and evolution of dissipative non-planar galactic discs; 40. Non-axisymmetric magnetic fields in turbulent gas discs; 41. Non-axisymmetric disturbances in galactic discs; 42. Spiral instabilities in N-body simulations; 43. Long-lived spiral waves in N-body simulations; 44. Overstable modes in stellar disc systems; 45. Galactic seismological approach to the spiral galaxy NGC 3198; 46. Characteristics of bars from 3-1) simulations; 47. Spirals and bars in linear theory; 48. Stellar hydrodynamical solutions for Eddington discs; 49. Theory of gradient instabilities of the gaseous Galactic disc and rotating shallow water; 50. Stability criteria for gravitating discs; 51. Stability of two-component galactic discs; 52. The smoothed particle hydrodynamics of galactic discs; 53. Tidal triggering of active disc galaxies by rich clusters; 54. The formation of spiral arms in early stages of galaxy interaction; 55. Formation of leading spiral arms in retrograde galaxy encounters; 56. The influence of galaxy interactions on stellar bars; 57. Disc galaxies - work in progress in Gothenburg; 58. Motion of a satellite in a disc potential; 59. Observer's summary; 60. Common processes and problems in disc dynamics; Citation index; Index of authors; Subject index.