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.
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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.
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Opening Remarks.- Deep Imaging and Redshift Surveys.- The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey.- The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey.- A Complete 2dF Survey of Fornax.- Galaxies Behind the Deepest Extinction Layer of the Southern Milky Way.- Surveys of Peculiar Velocities of Galaxies.- ESO Imaging Survey.- Cosmological Tests from the New Surveys.- Mapping the Dark Matter with Weak Gravitational Lensing.- Weak Lensing with MEGACAM and the VLT.- The Cosmological Uncertainty Principle.- Gravitational Lensing in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey.- A Weak Gravitational Lensing Cluster Survey.- Surveys with the BTC Mosaic CCD Camera at the Blanco 4m Telescope.- Deep Images of Bright Galaxies.- A Deep Tech Pan Survey of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies in Virgo.- Surveys with a 4m Liquid Mirror Telescope.- The Metagalactic Ionizing Field in the Local Group.- Coordinating Multi-Wavelength Observations.- The New Molonglo Radio Survey.- Testing Models of Radio Source Space Density Evolution with the SUMSS Survey.- Variance and Skewness in the FIRST Survey.- The AT-ESP Radio Survey: Goals, Description, First Results.- The Phoenix Deep Survey.- All-Sky Radio Surveys.- A Study of Low/Intermediate-Redshift Radio Sources and Clues to the Nature of High-Redshift Objects.- The Local Galaxy Population from the HIPASS Survey.- The MNRF Upgrade to the Australia Telescope.- The Square Kilometer Array Radio Telescope.- Prospects with Large Millimeter Arrays.- Galileo & d.o.lo.res..- The Future of Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect.- Cosmology in a Nutshell + an Argument Against ? ? = 0 Based on the Inconsistency of the CMB and Supernovae Results.- ASCA Results and Future Japanese X-Ray Missions.- High-Redshift X-Ray Clusters.- The Deep X-Ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS).- X-Ray Surveys and Their Follow-Up.- Cosmic Rays and the Structure of the Local Universe.- Looking Deep from the South Pole: Star Formation in the Thermal Infrared.- The High-Redshift Universe.- Surveys for High Redshift QSOs.- The Evolution of the Clustering of QSOs.- Local Population and Evolution of Optically Bright QSOs.- Gas and Dust at High Redshift.- Evidence of Structure in the Lyman-? Forest.- Very High Redshift Radio Galaxies.- The Highest Redshift Radio Galaxy Known in the Southern Hemisphere.- Radio Continuum and Emission Line Morphologies of Southern Seyfert Galaxies.- Surveying High z Galaxies with HST and Keck.- AUSTRALIS: A Multi-Fibre Near-IR Spectrograph for the VLT.- Surveys for Galaxies at z > 2, and an Introduction to the HDF-South.- High-Redshift Galaxies: The HDF and More.- AAO Support Observations for the Hubble Deep Field South.- The Hubble Deep Field-South QSO.- Hubble Deep Fever: A Faint Galaxy Diagnosis.- An Extremely Blue Population in Multispectral Galaxy Surveys.- Spectro-Photometric Constraints on Distant Galaxies.- Semi-Analytic Models and Background Hydrogen-Ionizing Flux.- Detection and Evolution of High-z Galaxies.- On the Nature of Red Galaxies in the Early Universe.- On the Evolution of X-Ray Clusters.- Rich Clusters of Galaxies at Low to Intermediate Redshift.- Tunable Filter-Selected H? Emission in the Rich Cluster A 3665 (AC 106).- Luminosity Function of Cluster Galaxies.- A Dwarf Galaxy Population - Density Relation.- Radio Survey of Merging Clusters in the Core of the Shapley Concentration.- Cosmological Parameters as Measured by Type Ia Supernovae.