Large Scale Structure: Tracks and Traces

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface

• List of Participants

• I. Galaxy Formation and Evolution

  • Galaxies at High Redshifts

  • First Results of the Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey

  • Seeing Red: Extremely Red Objects from the Cadis K′ Survey

  • Luminous Cluster Ellipticals as Cosmological Standard Rods?

  • HII Galaxies as Tracers of the Mass Distribution in the Nearby Universe

  • On the Theory of the Cosmological Mass Function

  • The Twofold Quasar-Galaxy Connection

  • Effects of Dynamical Friction on the Evolution of the Intracluster Medium

  • The Cores of Dark Matter Dominated Galaxies: Theory vs. Observations

  • The Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos

  • A Model of the Dark Matter Distribution

  • Galaxy Tracers in Cosmological N-Body Simulations

  • Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Formation: Cooling, Heating, Star Formation

  • Self-Regulating Galaxy Formation: A Numerical Study on the Origin of Galaxy Properties

  • Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations

  • High Energy Cosmic Rays and Baryonic Fraction of the Universe

• II. Quasar Absorption Lines

  • Clustering and Large Scale Structure in QSO Absorption

  • Cosmology from the Structure of the Lyα Forest

  • QSO Absorption Lines as Chronicle of the Structure Formation History

  • Clustering Properties of Lyα Absorption Lines in Numerical Simulations

  • Testing Cosmological Models Using Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers

• III. Galaxy Redshift Surveys

  • The Two-degree Field (2dF): A Progress Report

  • The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Preliminary Results

  • Cosmology with the SLOAN Digital Sky Survey

  • Groups of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey

  • Spatial Correlation Function and Pairwise Velocity Dispersion of Galaxies: CDM Models versus the Las Campanas Survey

  • Pairwise Velocity Distribution of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Survey

  • Galaxy Luminosity Segregation Derived from Las Campanas — EDSGC Cross-Correlation Function

  • A New Large Catalog of Groups of Galaxies in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere

  • Large Scale Structure from Radio Surveys

  • Ω_M and the CNOC Surveys

  • Peculiar Motions as Distance Indicators: Reconstruction of the Local Galaxy Density

  • The Puzzling Structure of the Shapley Supercluster

  • Cosmological Studies with ASCA Observations of Shapley Supercluster

  • Large Groups in the Chile-UK Quasar Survey

  • Significance of Cosmological Redshift Distortions in Future Redshift Surveys of Galaxies

• IV. Galaxy Clusters

  • Tracing the Universe with Clusters of Galaxies

  • Current Status of the ACO Cluster Redshift Compilation

  • The Mass Function of Nearby Galaxy Clusters

  • Calibration of the Mass–Temperature Relation for Clusters of Galaxies

  • The Nature of the Large Scale Extended X-Ray Emission around Abell Clusters

  • The L_x – T Correlation for Distant Galaxy Clusters

  • The Abundance of X-ray Clusters out to z ≃ 0.8

  • Cosmological Constraints from the ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey

  • Clusters in Various Cosmological Models: Abundance and Evolution

  • Properties of Galaxy Clusters

  • Connecting Large Scale Structure and Cluster Formation

  • Cluster-Galaxy Correlation Functions in COBE Normalized CDM Models

  • The Power Spectrum of Clusters of Galaxies

  • Regularity of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe

  • Regularity in the Distribution of Superclusters

  • Minkowski Functionals in Cosmology: An Overview

  • Characterizing Cluster Morphology Using Vector-Valued Minkowski Functionals

  • The X-Ray Cluster Dipole

  • Large Scale Coherent Dipole Anisotropy?

• V. Large Scale Structure

  • Velocity Fields Statistics and Tessellation Techniques: Unbiased Estimators of Ω

  • Voronoi Tesselations for Statistical Evaluation of Galaxy Distributions

  • Spherical Harmonic Analysis of Redshift Space Distortions in the IRAS PSCZ Redshift Survey

  • Power Spectrum of Velocity Fluctuations in the Universe

  • Statistical Analysis of the Galaxy Peculiar Velocity Field

  • Variational Dynamics and the Mass of the Local Group

  • Kinematical Evolution of the Pairwise Velocity Field of Galaxies

  • Reconstructing Nonlinear Stochastic Bias from Velocity Space Distortions

  • Measuring the Clustering of Faint Galaxies

  • N-Point Correlation Functions from the Muenster Redshift Project 2D Catalogue

  • Scale-Invariant Correlation Functions of Cosmological Density Fluctuations in the Strong Clustering Regime

  • The Evolution of Galaxy Clustering

  • Galaxy Clustering at High Redshift

  • Evolution of Galaxy Clustering

  • The Evolution of the Two-Points Correlation Function

  • Early LSS Formation and Quasar Groups

  • Early Evolution of Large Scale Structure Traced by Faint Blue Galaxies

  • Mixed Models with n > 1 and Large Scale Structure Constraints

  • Large Scale Structure Formation in Mixed Dark Matter Models with a Cosmological Constant

  • The Distribution of Matter in the VIRGO Simulations

  • Identifying and Quantifying the Tracers of Large Scale Structure: Filaments and Voids

  • Measures of Walls, Filaments and Voids

  • Superlarge Scale Structure in the Universe

  • Large Scale Structure as Cosmological Probe

  • Alignment of Primordial Density Perturbations as Tracers of Today's Filaments

  • Accuracy of Nonlinear Approximations in Spheroidal Collapse — Why are Zel'dovich-type Approximations so Good? —

  • A Fresh Look at the Adhesion Approximation

• VI. Gravitational Lensing

  • Gravitational Lensing as a Cosmological Probe

  • Weak Gravitational Lensing: Correlations for Open and Flat Models

  • Weak Lensing of QSOs by the Large Scale Structure

  • QSO-Galaxy Correlations Induced by Weak Lensing

  • The Cosmological Uncertainty Principle

  • The Δθ-z_s Relation as a Cosmological Test

  • On Arcs and Ω

  • The Edge-on Spiral Gravitational Lens B1600+434

  • A Search for Large Image Separation Gravitational Lenses in the JVAS Radio Survey

  • Limits on MACHOs in the Lensing Galaxy 0957+561

  • Cluster Mass Estimation from Lens Magnification

  • Cluster Mass Profiles from Lensing

  • Do Cluster Galaxies Have Extended Dark Halos?

• VII. Cosmic Background Radiation and Inflation

  • A Brief Overview of the Scientific Capabilities of MAP and Planck

  • Cosmological Evolution of X–Ray AGN

  • Large Angular Scale Fluctuations in the X-Ray Background

  • The Tophat and MASM CMB Experiments: Status

  • Evidence of a Built-in Scale on the Primeval Matter Power Spectrum

  • Cosmic Background Maps of Primordial Voids

  • Inflation for Large Scale Structure

  • Inflationary Models with Λ-Term and CMB Anisotropy

  • New Steps Towards a Proof of the Cosmological “No Hair” – Theorem

• Concluding Remarks

• Author Index