Large-Scale Structures in the Universe Observational and Analytical Methods Proceedings of a Workshop, Held at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Federal Rep. of Germany, December 9-12, 1987

This book will certainly be considered an important reference for astronomers and astrophysicists handling large amounts of data in observational and theoretical approaches to the large scale structures in the universe. The contributions are written with an emphasis on methods. The volume contains among many other topics recent observational results on redshift surveys of clusters and distributions of galaxies and quasars, together with articles on the importance of these findings for future standards and for theoretical predictions. A long historical chapter serves as an introduction. This mixture of textbook and review is aimed at the newcomer to the field as well as at the specialist. Graduate students will find it useful for additional reading. Large scales — Large numbers — Large efforts: Historical annotations....Pages 7-68 The Edinburgh/Durham galaxy survey....Pages 69-89 The APM galaxy survey: Some data reduction techniques....Pages 90-105 Comparison of the correlation functions of bright and faint galaxies....Pages 106-110 The Muenster Redshift project. Automated analysis of galaxy clustering on Schmidt plates....Pages 111-121 On the use of redshift surveys in observational cosmology....Pages 123-135 Wavelength calibration of objective prism plates by transformation from direct plates....Pages 136-141 The Muenster redshift project. Automated redshift measurements from low-dispersion objective prism Schmidt plates....Pages 142-159 A study of galaxies with z ≤0.3 in the ESO/SRC Atlas Field No. 411: Galaxy distribution and luminosity functions....Pages 160-175 A study of nearby clusters of galaxies....Pages 177-185 An application of projected distance cross-correlation for Abell clusters....Pages 186-194 Three-point correlations of Abell clusters....Pages 195-206 The hydra-centaurus supercluster....Pages 207-216 On the orientation of double galaxies....Pages 217-224 Visual light and infrared observations as complementary sources of data on intergalactic dust....Pages 225-230 Quasar search on objective prism plates....Pages 231-234 A search for homogeneous samples of quasars....Pages 235-245 Slit spectroscopy of candidates from automated quasar detection on UKSTU prism plates....Pages 246-254 The use of quasars for the construction of a future extragalactic inertial reference frame....Pages 255-256 Voronoi foam as a model of the medium-scale universe....Pages 257-266 Prospects for measuring the evolution of the luminosity function and the angular correlation function....Pages 267-273 Galaxy redshift-number counts with MRSP data: A method of estimating q 0 ....Pages 274-281 Photometry from Schmidt plates....Pages 283-287 Mathematical aspects of internal magnitude calibration....Pages 288-297 Methods of deconvolution....Pages 298-305 Comparison of different mathematical methods for the investigation of object distributions....Pages 306-307 Multivariate analysis methods: Background and example....Pages 308-314 Supervised and unsupervised classification — The case of IRAS point sources....Pages 315-322 The hardware and software support for the MRSP....Pages 323-330