Contents

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Overview
  • Introduction
  • Present Work
  • Future Possibilities
• Observations: the raw material
  • The sample
  • Observations
  • Calibration
    • Preprocessing
      • Dark Subtraction
      • Bias Subtraction
      • Flat fielding
      • Cosmic Ray Removal
      • Sky Subtraction
      • Aligning multiple frames
      • Combining multiple frames
    • Standardization
    • Correction for Galactic Extinction
    • K-correction
  • Control Sample
• Brightness distribution
  • Introduction
  • The radial profile
    • Introduction
    • Obtaining the fit
    • Procedure Adopted for the Sample
  • The different components
    • Ellipticals and bulges
      • Hubble's Law
      • King's Profiles
      • de Vaucouleurs' law
      • Petrosian's function
      • The Jaffe Profile
      • Dehnen models
    • The disk
    • The point source
  • Decomposing the profile
    • Free Parameters
    • Input parameters
    • PSF
    • Model generation
    • Goodness of fit
    • Output
    • Procedure for minimization
    • Fitting Considerations
  • Consistency checks
  • 2D distribution
    • :
    • Position Angle
    • Ellipticity
  • Summary
• Scale lengths at different wavelengths
  • Results of profile fits
    • Goodness of fit
    • Disk parameters
    • Bulge parameters
  • Color gradients
    • Results for the samples
    • Color gradients and scale length ratios
    • Preference for scale lengths
    • Discussion
  • Extrapolated profiles
  • Conclusions
• Radio galaxies with disks
  • Disky galaxies
    • Radio galaxies
      • 1222-252
      • 1053-282
      • 1006-214
      • 0952-224
      • 1215-215
    • Control Sample
      • 1251/190
      • 1323/1477
      • 1323/1673
      • 1329/234
  • Morphological Signatures of disks
  • Discussion
• Dusty galaxies
  • Introduction
  • Detection techniques
    • Color maps
    • Small scale features
    • Extrapolated profiles
  • Dust lane galaxies
    • 0354-263
    • 0420-263
    • 1254-268
    • 1257-253
    • 1323-271
    • 1344-241
  • Discussion and conclusions
• Radio structure: using a different eye
  • Introduction
  • Optical-radio correlations
    • Disky galaxies
    • Blue centers
    • Optical luminosity
    • Morphological peculiarities and dust
    • Harmonic components
  • Induced star formation
  • Conclusions
• Ages: how recent is the blue
  • Introduction
  • The existing picture
  • Synthetic spectra
    • Galaxy spectra
    • Modus operandi
  • Age of the most recent starburst
• Conclusions
  • The emerging picture
  • The work goes on
• Morphological processing
  • Dilation and erosion
  • Opening and closing
  • Gradient
• Individual objects
  • 0344-291
  • 0349-278
  • 0354-263
  • 0420-263
  • 0434-225
  • 0446-206
  • 0453-206
  • 0520-289
  • 0938-205
  • 0950-239
  • 0952-224
  • 1006-214
  • 1033-251
  • 1048-238
  • 1053-282
  • 1056-272
  • 1103-244
  • 1126-246
  • 1215-215
  • 1222-252
  • 1251-289
  • 1254-268
  • 1257-253
  • 1303-215
  • 1323-271
  • 1329-257
  • 1343-253
  • 1344-241
  • 1346-252
  • 1354-251
• References