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Writings and Lectures, 1852-2011
Rubin's published writings with drafts and related correspondence and research material, notes and illustrations for lectures given, and a set of overhead transparency sheets. Other smaller files in the series relate to Rubin's writing and include a bibliography of Rubin's publications, letters to the editor, correspondence with literary agents, and requests for reprints. Published articles, drafts of articles, book drafts and galleys, research material, correspondence, illustrations, notes, overhead transparencies, and publicity for public lectures.
Arranged into a chronological file of writings followed by an alphabetical arrangement by type of material.
BOX 105 1947
BOX 105 "The Effect of Titanium Oxide on the Observation of an M-Type, Long Period Variable"
BOX 82 1950-1952, 1986
BOX 82 "Differential Rotation of the Metagalaxy"
BOX 10 1962, undated
BOX 10 "Kinematic Determination of the Angular Velocity of the Sun about the Center of the Galaxy," Wʘ
BOX 7 1962
BOX 7 "Kinematic Studies of Early Type Stars," with Burley and Smith
BOX 5 1962-1970
BOX 5 "Comparison of 21-cm Radial Velocities and Optical Radial Velocities of Galaxies," with Ford and Roberts
1963
BOX 50 "A Simple Method for Determining Ro, the Distance from the Sun to the Center of the Galaxy" ("Ro No Good")
BOX 10 "Classification of Late Type Stars in the Near Ultraviolet from Objective Prism Spectra," with McCarthy, abstract 113
BOX OV 2 "Galactic Coordinates for Plate Centers of the Palomar Sky Atlas," with McCarthy
BOX 10 "Interpretation of the K Term in the Radial Velocities of Cepheids and O and B Stars" and additional correspondence with the Astrophysical Journal
BOX 8 "Interpretation of the K Term in the Radial Velocities of Cepheids and O and B Stars"
BOX 8 "Kinematic Studies of Early Type Stars. II. The Velocity Field Within 2 Kiloparsecs of the Sun," with Burley
(3 folders)
BOX 10 "Kinematic Studies of Early-Type Stars. II. The Velocity Field Within 2 Kiloparsecs of the Sun," with Burley
1964
BOX 48 "A Study of the Velocity Field in M 82 and its Bearing on Explosive Phenomena in that Galaxy," with E. M. Burbidge and G. R. Burbidge
BOX 7 Articles on NGC 1792 and 1792 with E.M. Burbidge, G.R. Burbidge and Prendergast
BOX 8 "Motions of Early-Type Stars in the Anticenter"
BOX 11 "NGC 2188, A Peculiar Galaxy," with E.M. Burbidge and G. R. Burbidge
1964-1965
BOX 15 "Motions in Barred Spirals. VII. The Rotation and Velocity Field of NGC 986," with E. M. Burbidge and G. R. Burbidge
BOX 53 "The Rotation and Mass of NGC 7331," with E.M. Burbidge, G.R. Burbidge, Crampin, and Prendergast
1965
BOX 9 "An Old Open Cluster Near the North Galactic Pole," with Upgren
BOX 15 "Low Dispersion Image Tube Spectra in the Red 3C 33, 3C 48, TON 256, and an Infrared Star," with Ford
BOX 8 "Radial Velocities of Distant OB Stars in the Anticenter Region of the Galaxy"
1966
BOX 7 "Image Tube Spectra of Quasi-Stellar Objects," with Ford
BOX 48 "Quasi-Stellar objects with Small Redshifts: 1217 + 02, 3C 249.1, and 3C 263"
BOX 49 1967
BOX 49 "Spectrum of the 1967 Supernova in NGC 3389 and Hα Velocities in the Galaxy"
1968
BOX OV 6 "Optical Spectra Near 1 Micron: The Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 and the Planetary Nebula NGC 6543," with Ford and Purgathofer
BOX 49 "Spectra of Emission Regions in M31," with Ford, AAS Meeting
BOX 53 "Spectroscopic Study of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 3227," with Ford
BOX 49 "The Spectrum of the 1968 Supernova in NGC 2713," with Ford
BOX 194 1969, circa 1969
BOX 194 Draft material for "A Note on the Systemic Velocity of M31," with D'Odorico
1969
BOX 37 "A Note on the Systemic Velocity of M31," with D'Odorico
BOX 41 "Observations of M82 in the Optical Infrared," with Bertola, D'Odorico, and Ford
BOX 51 "Rotation of the Andromeda Nebula from a Spectroscopic Survey of Emission Regions," with Ford
1969-1970
BOX 46 "A Comparison of Dynamical Models of the Andromeda Nebula and Galaxy," with Ford
BOX 2 Astrophysical Journal, miscellany
BOX 41 "Emission Line Intensities and Radial Velocities in the Interacting Galaxies NGC 4038-4039," with Ford and D'Odorico
1970
BOX 49 "Emission Line Intensities and Radial Velocities in the Interacting Galaxies NGC 4038-4039," with Ford and D'Odorico
BOX 50 "Gas in the Nucleus and Disk of M31," with Ford, IAU #45, Uppsala, Sweden
BOX 50 1970-1971
BOX 50 "A Comparison of 21-cm Radial Velocities and Optical Radial Velocities of Galaxies," with Ford and Roberts
1971
BOX 50 "A Finding List of Faint Blue Stars in the Anticenter Region of the Galaxy," with Losee
BOX 47 "Narrow Band Filter Photographs and Spectra of the Planetary Nebula NGC 7009," with Ford
BOX 194 "Radial Velocities and Line Strengths of Emission Lines Across the Nuclear Disk of M31," with Ford
BOX 194 1971-1972
BOX 194 "Variation of Emission Line Strength Across M31," with Kumar and Ford
1972
BOX 51 "Klemola 30--A Group of Interconnected Galaxies," with Graham
BOX 51 "Stellar Motions Near the Nucleus of M31," with Ford and Kumar
BOX 49 1972-1973
BOX 49 "Stellar Motions Near the Nucleus of M31"
(2 folders)
BOX 198 1973, undated
BOX 198 Andromeda nebula drafts and illustrations
1973
BOX 50 "Dynamics of the Andromeda Nebula," Scientific American
(2 folders)
BOX 34 "Hubble paper II: "A Curious Distribution of Radial Velocities of ScI Galaxies with 14.0≤m≤15.0"
BOX 27 "Is the Hubble Expansion Isotropic at the Distance of Sc I Galaxies with 14.0 ≤ m ≤ 15.0?"
1974
BOX 34 "A Second Finding List of Faint Blue Stars in the Anticenter Region of the Galaxy," with Westpfahl and Tuve
(3 folders)
BOX 33 "Two Chains of Interesting Southern Galaxies: NGC 7172/3/4/6 and NGC 7201/3/4"
(2 folders)
1975-1976
BOX 196 "Motion of the Galaxy and the Local Group Determined from the Velocity Anistropy of Distant Sc I Galaxies I. The Data," with Ford, Thonnard, Roberts, and Graham
(2 folders)
BOX 66 "Motion of the Galaxy and the Local Group of Galaxies Determined from the Velocity Anistropy of Distant ScI Galaxies II. The Analysis for the Motion," Drafts
BOX 196 Tables, graphs, and data for "Motion of the Galaxy and the Local Group Determined from the Velocity Anistropy of Distant Sc I Galaxies"
(2 folders)
1975-1977
BOX 197 "Motion of the Galaxy and the Local Group Determined from the Velocity Anistropy of Distant Sc I Galaxies," parts I and II
(7 folders)
BOX 194 "Position Angle of the Major Axis of the Nuclear Region of M31," with Peterson and Ford
1976
BOX 35 "A Galaxy Redshift Diagram for Optical and 21-cm Wavelengths," Sky and Telescope
BOX 27 "Motion of the Galaxy and the Local Group Determined from the Velocity Anisotropy of Distant Sc I Galaxies: parts I (data) and II (analysis)"
BOX 27 Drafts, correspondence, and research material
(3 folders)
BOX 28 Photographic finding charts
(6 folders)
BOX 35 "Motions of the Stars and the Excited Gas in the Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 3351," with Peterson, Ford, and Thonnard
BOX 11 "Rotation curve of the Spiral Galaxy NGC 7217," with Peterson and Ford
BOX 25 "The Scatter on the Hubble Diagram and the Motion of the Local Group"
BOX 11 1976-1977
BOX 11 "New Observations of the NGC 1275 Phenomenon," with Ford, Peterson, and Oort
1977
BOX 33 "A New Mapping of the Velocity Field of NGC 1275"
BOX 33 "Compact Blue-Shifted Galaxy RMB 56 (1216+141)," with Kinman, Thonnard, Peterson, Ford
(2 folders)
BOX 45 "Extended Rotation Curves of High Luminosity Spiral Galaxies. I. The Angle Between the Rotation Axis of the Nucleus and the Outer Disk of NGC 3672," with Thonnard and Ford
BOX 36 "Is There Evidence for Anisotropy in the Hubble Expansion?" isotropy Talk
BOX 36 "NGC 1275 velocity analysis"
1977-1978
BOX 61 "A New Mapping of the Velocity Field of NGC 1275," with Ford, Peterson, and Lynds
BOX 27 "Velocity Field of the Barred Galaxy NGC 5383," with Peterson, Ford and Thonnard
(2 folders)
1978
BOX 19 "Extended Optical Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies"
BOX 19 "Extended Rotation Curves of High Luminosity Spiral Galaxies. II. The Anemic Sa Galaxy NGC 4378," with Ford, Romanishin, and Strom
BOX 61 "Extended Rotation Curves of High-Luminosity Spiral Galaxies. IV. Systematic Dynamical Properties, Sa→Sc," with Ford and Thonnard
BOX 19 "NGC 5506: An X-Ray Seyfert Galaxy"
BOX 129 1978-1979
BOX 129 "Extended Rotation Curves of High Luminosity Spiral Galaxies. V. NGC 1961, The Most Massive Spiral Known," with Ford
BOX 196 1979, undated
BOX 196 "Is there Evidence of Anisotropy in the Expansion of the Universe?" with charts, graphs, and illustrations
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