Looking Deep in the Southern Sky: Proceedings of the ESO/Australia Workshop Held at Sydney, Australia, 10–12 December 1997 (ESO Astrophysics Symposia)

The southern hemisphere is undergoing a phase of intense "activity". On one hand, a number of exciting new facilities (ranging from optical and near-infrared to radio and millimeter) are, or will soon be, available. On the other hand, many new deep surveys, covering most of the electromagnetic spectrum, are underway. This will provide large databases and make coordinated radio, infrared and optical projects in the southern hemisphere ever more attractive and significant. With all these new facilities, important progress will be made regarding large-scale structure of the universe, the very early universe and the associated first epoch of galaxy formation. This book presents a collection of papers presented by experts in these fields at a workshop designed to address how southern hemisphere astronomy could best coordinate its efforts to maximise the use of the new generation of 8-10 telescopes in studying the key questions in these fields. It is aimed at research astronomers. Front Matter....Pages I-XXI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Opening Remarks....Pages 3-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey....Pages 9-15 The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey....Pages 16-20 A Complete 2dF Survey of Fornax....Pages 21-22 Galaxies Behind the Deepest Extinction Layer of the Southern Milky Way....Pages 23-28 Surveys of Peculiar Velocities of Galaxies....Pages 29-33 ESO Imaging Survey....Pages 34-41 Cosmological Tests from the New Surveys....Pages 42-50 Mapping the Dark Matter with Weak Gravitational Lensing....Pages 51-58 Weak Lensing with MEGACAM and the VLT....Pages 59-65 The Cosmological Uncertainty Principle....Pages 66-67 Gravitational Lensing in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey....Pages 68-69 A Weak Gravitational Lensing Cluster Survey....Pages 70-71 Surveys with the BTC Mosaic CCD Camera at the Blanco 4m Telescope....Pages 72-77 Deep Images of Bright Galaxies....Pages 78-82 A Deep Tech Pan Survey of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies in Virgo....Pages 83-88 Surveys with a 4m Liquid Mirror Telescope....Pages 89-90 The Metagalactic Ionizing Field in the Local Group....Pages 91-100 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 The New Molonglo Radio Survey....Pages 103-109 Testing Models of Radio Source Space Density Evolution with the SUMSS Survey....Pages 110-111 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Variance and Skewness in the FIRST Survey....Pages 112-113 The AT—ESP Radio Survey: Goals, Description, First Results....Pages 114-119 The Phoenix Deep Survey....Pages 120-124 All-Sky Radio Surveys....Pages 125-129 A Study of Low/Intermediate-Redshift Radio Sources and Clues to the Nature of High-Redshift Objects....Pages 130-131 The Local Galaxy Population from the HIPASS Survey....Pages 132-139 The MNRF Upgrade to the Australia Telescope....Pages 140-145 The Square Kilometer Array Radio Telescope....Pages 146-152 Prospects with Large Millimeter Arrays....Pages 153-156 Galileo & d.o.lo.res .....Pages 157-158 The Future of Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect....Pages 159-166 Cosmology in a Nutshell + an Argument Against Ω Λ = 0 Based on the Inconsistency of the CMB and Supernovae Results....Pages 167-173 ASCA Results and Future Japanese X-Ray Missions....Pages 174-180 High-Redshift X-Ray Clusters....Pages 181-186 The Deep X-Ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS)....Pages 187-193 X-Ray Surveys and Their Follow-Up....Pages 194-198 Cosmic Rays and the Structure of the Local Universe....Pages 199-200 Looking Deep from the South Pole: Star Formation in the Thermal Infrared....Pages 201-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Surveys for High Redshift QSOs....Pages 211-215 The Evolution of the Clustering of QSOs....Pages 216-220 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Local Population and Evolution of Optically Bright QSOs....Pages 221-225 Gas and Dust at High Redshift....Pages 226-233 Evidence of Structure in the Lyman- α Forest....Pages 234-235 Very High Redshift Radio Galaxies....Pages 236-245 The Highest Redshift Radio Galaxy Known in the Southern Hemisphere....Pages 246-247 Radio Continuum and Emission Line Morphologies of Southern Seyfert Galaxies....Pages 248-249 Surveying High z Galaxies with HST and Keck....Pages 250-256 AUSTRALIS: A Multi-Fibre Near-IR Spectrograph for the VLT....Pages 257-261 Surveys for Galaxies at z > 2, and an Introduction to the HDF—South....Pages 262-269 High-Redshift Galaxies: The HDF and More....Pages 270-274 AAO Support Observations for the Hubble Deep Field South....Pages 275-277 The Hubble Deep Field-South QSO....Pages 278-279 Hubble Deep Fever: A Faint Galaxy Diagnosis....Pages 280-288 An Extremely Blue Population in Multispectral Galaxy Surveys....Pages 289-293 Spectro-Photometric Constraints on Distant Galaxies....Pages 294-300 Semi-Analytic Models and Background Hydrogen-Ionizing Flux....Pages 301-302 Detection and Evolution of High- z Galaxies....Pages 303-308 On the Nature of Red Galaxies in the Early Universe....Pages 309-310 On the Evolution of X-Ray Clusters....Pages 311-317 Rich Clusters of Galaxies at Low to Intermediate Redshift....Pages 318-319 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Tunable Filter-Selected H α Emission in the Rich Cluster A 3665 (AC 106)....Pages 320-321 Luminosity Function of Cluster Galaxies....Pages 322-323 A Dwarf Galaxy Population — Density Relation....Pages 324-325 Radio Survey of Merging Clusters in the Core of the Shapley Concentration....Pages 326-327 Cosmological Parameters as Measured by Type Ia Supernovae....Pages 328-333 Back Matter....Pages 335-337 The idea of a joint ESO / Australia meeting on the large number of exciting new facilities that are, or will soon be, available tihne southern hemisphere arose quite naturally. In the optical and the near-infrared, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) will soon be operational. In the radio, the Australia Telescope Com­ pact Array is going to be upgraded to higher frequencies (20 and 100 GHz), together with an improvement in very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) facil­ ities. Other major facilities, such as the Large Millimetre Array and the lkT are being planned. Moreover, new deep surveys are underway in the southern hemi­ sphere: the southern Hubble Deep Field, the ESO Imaging Survey (BIS), pan­ oramic deep surveys with the UK Schmidt telescope, and the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) 2dF galaxy/QSO redshift survey in the optical; and the Parkes multibeam HI survey and Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) Wide Field continuum survey at radio wavelengths. With all these new facilities, important progress will be made regarding important issues such as the large­ scale structure of the universe, the very early universe and the associated first epoch of galaxy formation. The generation of large databases, and the oppor­ tunity for sensitive follow-up observations in complementary wavebands, mean that coordinated radio, infrared and optical projects in the southern hemisphere are likely to become increasingly attractive and important.