The Epoch of Galaxy Formation
Scientists in the late twentieth century are not the first to view galaxy formation as a phenomenon worthy of explanation in terms of the known laws of physics. Already in 1754 Kant regarded the problem as essentially solved. In his Univerlal Natural Hutory and Theory 0/ the H eaven$ he wrote; "...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | Nato Science Series C:, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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Table of Contents:
- I. Forming Galaxies
- Galaxy formation: high redshift or low?
- Observable signatures of young galaxies
- A multicolor search for forming galaxies
- Lyman-alpha galaxies in 1988
- Morphological evolution of radio galaxies
- High redshift radio galaxies and galaxy formation
- Deep surveys of field and low-flux-radio galaxies
- Constraints on the epoch of galaxy formation from deep U-band counts
- II. Gas Clouds
- Lyman line absorption systems
- Damped Lyman alpha absorbers: the progenitors of galactic disks
- A chemically young galaxy at z=2.3
- Lyman ? emission from a possible primeval galaxy at z=2.5
- III. Quasars
- The quasar redshift cut-off
- Fifty-three multicolour selected quasars with redshifts greater than three
- The luminosity function and clustering of QSOs
- High redshift quasars in the cold dark matter cosmology
- The intergalactic medium and the epoch of galaxy formation
- A cooling flow around the quasar 3C196
- Simulations of the visual appearance of galaxy clusters at high redshift
- Central galaxy formation by cooling flows
- Constraints on the amplitude of primordial density fluctuations
- Spottiness in the structure of the microwave background radiation
- Energetic constraints on spectral distortions of the microwave background
- CBR polarization by cosmic dust at high redshifts
- Growth of perturbations in a collapsing protogalaxy
- The turnaround epoch of clusters of galaxies
- The correlations of peaks in random noise
- Density maxima as sites for galaxy formation
- A cross-correlation method to test the dependence of the clustering of galaxies on luminosity
- Constraints on the formation redshift of bright galaxies inbiased scenarios
- Biased theories with non-v threshold
- Sinking satellites and disk heating of spiral galaxies
- Galaxy formation in asymmetric dark haloes
- Gas in a cosmological N-body simulation
- Dissipational galaxy formation
- Recent results on cosmic strings and galaxy formation
- Galaxy formation in unstable dark matter models
- VII. The Age of the Galaxy
- The age of the Galaxy
- The nature and age of the galactic thick disk
- A simple model for the Local Group of Galaxies
- VIII. Prospects
- Future observational prospects
- Poster Papers
- A new deep AAT redshift survey
- On the interpretation of galaxy counts, and color and redshift distributions
- The interpretation of faint galaxy counts
- Limits on dust in damped Lyman-alpha systems and the obscuration of quasars
- The stellar content of early-type galaxies in dense environments
- A new study of absorption line density in QSO’s Ly? forest
- The Edinburgh/Durham southern galaxy catalogue
- Mass-to-light ratios and the age of galaxies
- Emission lines and star formation in radio galaxies
- The age of the radiogalaxy 0902+34 at the redshift z=3.395
- Statistics of radio galaxy populations and galaxy formation
- IV. Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters
- Galaxy evolution in high density environments
- Evolution of compact groups and formation of elliptical
- Properties of galaxy clusters associated with quasars
- History of star formation in normal galaxies
- Recurrent star formation in elliptical galaxies
- V. Background Radiation
- Constraints on galaxy formation from cosmic background radiations
- Explaining the Nagoya-Berkeley submillimetre background
- Star formation and the x-ray background
- VI. Models
- Galaxy formation and biased clustering
- Galaxy clusters and the epoch of galaxy formation
- Exploring origins for the Hubble sequence
- Galaxy mergers in a CDM model
- Clustering and dynamics in a dissipative CDM N-body simulation
- The galaxy luminosity function: an alternative to the Press and Schechter technique
- Galactic evolution and globalstar formation
- Galaxy formation and cooling flows
- The epoch of galaxy formation in explosion models
- Tidal origin of starbursts and active galactic nuclei
- The topology of large scale structure: observations
- Append
- Galaxy formation: the board game
- Author Index