LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE IN THE UNIVERSE

The Table of Contents for the full book PDF is as follows:

• Preface

• Photograph of Participants

• List of Participants

• I. Observing Large Scale Structure

  • Comparison of Large Scale Structures and Velocities

  • The Peculiar Velocity Field from Sc Galaxies

  • Estimation of Peculiar Velocity from the Inverse Tully-Fisher Relation

  • Measuring the Value of Ω^0.6/b Using Redshift Space Distortions in the Stromlo-APM Survey

  • Variational Principle Analysis of Orbits in the Local Supercluster

  • Constraints on Large Scale Structure from X-Ray Surveys

  • Large Scale Structure in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey

  • Principles and Applications of Low-Resolution

  • Redshift Surveys

  • Large Scale Structure in the Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey

• II. Formation of Large Scale Structure

  • The Formation and Evolution of Large Scale Structure

  • The Physical Measurement of Large Scale Structure

  • Formation of the Supercluster-Void Network

  • The Distribution of Rich Clusters – A Chessboard Universe?

  • Void Hierarchy in the Northern Local Supervoid

  • The Evolution of the Supercluster-Void Network

  • Constraints on the Power Spectrum of Mass Fluctuations from Galaxy Cluster Peculiar Velocities

  • Formation of Large Scale Structures and Quasars as its Tracers

  • Angular Correlation Function of Galaxies in CDM and C+HDM Models

  • On Estimating ξ(r): to Weight or not to Weight?

  • Mixed Cold-Hot Dark Matter Models with Several Massive Neutrino Types

  • Large Scale Structure from Perturbation Spectra with Broken Scale Invariance

  • Large Scale Structure of the Universe from Blue Primordial Perturbation Spectra

• III. Measures of Large Scale Structure

  • The Largest Structures in the Universe

  • The Void Probability Function: A Severe Test for Dark Matter Models

  • Voids and Their Evolution in the Adhesion Model

  • A Two-Fluid Model for the Formation of Large Scale Structure

  • Robust Morphological Measures for Large Scale Structure

  • Weakly Nonlinear Evolution of Topology of Large Scale Structure

  • Velocity Field and Thermal Evolution of Gas for Spectra with Broken Scale Invariance

  • Redshift Distortion of Clustering: A Lagrangian Approach

  • Higher Moments of Large Scale Cosmic Fields

• IV. Cosmological Aspects of Clusters of Galaxies

  • X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes

  • X-Ray Temperature vs. Galaxy Velocity Dispersion in Galaxy Clusters

  • X-Ray and Radio Observations of the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528

  • Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies

  • The Cluster Distribution as a Test for Dark Matter Models

  • On the Omega-Dependence of Cluster Density Profiles

  • Substructures of Clusters and Cosmological Models

  • Cluster Abundance from Perturbation Spectra with Broken Scale Invariance

  • Evolution of the X-Ray Luminosity Function of Clusters of Galaxies

  • Microwave Background Fluctuations due to Nonlinear Structures: A Short Assessment of the Subject

  • The Morphological Types of Central Dominant Galaxies in Clusters

• V. QSO Absorption Lines and Galaxy Formation

  • QSO Absorption Line Systems

  • Modelling of QSO Absorption Line Distribution with N-Body Simulations

  • Constraining Galaxy Formation Models by Observations of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems

  • Quasar Absorption Lines and the Parameters of the Friedmann Universe

  • Physical Mechanisms for Biased Galaxy Formation

  • Numerical Models of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

  • Faint Field Galaxies: A Population of Intrinsically Faint Objects at Low Redshift?

• VI. Gravitational Lensing

  • Cluster Masses from Weak Lensing

  • The Correlation of 1-Jansky Sources to Zwicky Clusters

  • Determining the Mass Distribution of Clusters from Gravitational Lensed Background Galaxies

  • Studying Gravitational Lens Properties of Cosmogonic Models

  • Quadruple Lenses: A Probe for (Dark) Matter Distribution

  • Chromatic, Spectroscopic and Polarisation Effects in Microlensing Events from Stellar Sources

• VII. Theoretical Models

  • Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models and their Homogenization

  • Decay and Production of Particles in Fluid Cosmology

  • Chiral Non-Linear Sigma Models and Problems of an Inflationary Cosmology

  • Non-Flat Primordial Power Spectra

  • Stability Properties of the Starobinsky Cosmological Model

  • Multidimensional Cosmological Models as Dynamical Systems

  • Primordial Nucleosynthesis Constraints of Conformal Weyl Gravity Cosmological Models

  • Distortion of the MWB Spectrum by the Primeval Hydrogen Recombination

  • Primordial Magnetic Fields in String Cosmology

  • Comparison of Nonlinear Approximations to Gravitational Instability

  • Optimized Lagrangian Approximations for Modelling Large Scale Structure at Non-Linear Stages

• VIII. Summary

  • Rating Cosmological Models