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The Post-Recombination Universe

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  • © 1988

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  1. Nick Kaiser

    1. Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK

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  2. Anthony N. Lasenby

    1. Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 240)

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Table of contents (51 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Sources at High Redshift

    1. Protogalaxies

      • Lennox L. Cowie
      Pages 1-18

    2. The Search for High Redshift Quasars

      • David Crampton
      Pages 19-31

    3. Cosmological Evolution of Extragalactic Sources

      • L. Danese, A. Franceschini
      Pages 33-50

    4. The Evolution of Extragalactic X-Ray Sources

      • A. C. Fabian
      Pages 51-68

    5. HII Galaxies

      • Roberto Terlevich
      Pages 69-83

    6. The Redshift Cutoff for Steep-Spectrum Radiogalaxies

      • J. E. Baldwin
      Pages 85-89

    7. Quasars Contributing to the Extragalactic X-Ray Flux: The Deep X-Ray Survey in Pavo

      • R. E. Griffiths, I. R. Tuohy, R. J. V. Brissenden, M. Ward, S. S. Murray, R. Burg
      Pages 91-97

    8. The Milli-Jansky Radio Galaxies

      • H. van der Laan, M. J. A. Oort
      Pages 99-100

    9. Cosmogonic Implications of the First Quasars

      • Martin J. Rees
      Pages 101-107

  3. Background Radiation Fields

    1. Measurements of CBR Anisotropies at Intermediate Angular Scales

      • Paolo de Bernardis, Silvia Masi, Francesco Melchiorri, Bianca Melchiorri, Nicola Vittorio
      Pages 109-123

    2. Cosmological Implications of the Infrared Background Radiation

      • Michael Rowan-Robinson, Bernard Carr
      Pages 125-140

    3. Origin and Anisotropy of the Cosmic Submillimeter Background

      • C. J. Hogan, J. R. Bond
      Pages 141-149

    4. Non-Gaussian Statistics and the Microwave Background

      • P. Coles
      Pages 151-153

    5. Cosmological Gravitational Waves

      • Eric V. Linder
      Pages 155-158

    6. The Infrared Background From Stars at High Redshift

      • Jonathan C. McDowell
      Pages 159-161

    7. Large-Scale Microwave Background Anisotropies in Cosmological Models with Exotic Components

      • MirosÅ‚aw Panek
      Pages 163-165

    8. Microwave Background Radiation Observations at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory

      • A. C. S. Readhead, C. R. Lawrence, S. T. Myers, W. L. W. Sargent
      Pages 167-172

    9. Microwave Background Radiation Observations at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory: Analysis and Results

      • C. R. Lawrence, A. C. S. Readhead, S. T. Myers
      Pages 173-181

    10. On Measurements of the Zeldovich-Sunyaev Effect

      • Yoel Rephaeli
      Pages 183-185
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This volume consists of invited talks and contributed papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "The Post Recombination Universe" which was held in Cambridge in the summer of 1987. There have, in recent years, been numerous meetings devoted to problems in observational cosmology. The attention given reflects the exciting rate of de­ velopment of the subject, and a survey of the proceedings from these symposia reveals that a great deal of emphasis has been given to consideration of the very early universe on the one hand, and to large scale structure in the universe at the present epoch on the other. The theme of this meeting was chosen to comple­ ment these efforts by focussing on the state of the universe at quite early times, but at those epochs which are still accessible to direct observations. The meet­ ing provided a broad coverage of the post recombination universe by drawing on experts from a wide variety of fields covering theory, background radiation fields and discrete sources at high redshift. Events in the moderately early universe will have left their mark in a great range of wavebands, from X-rays to the microwave region, and the evolution of the universe can be revealed by studies of the inter­ galactic medium, gravitational lensing and the abundance and clustering of high redshift sources. All of these subjects received much attention at the meeting, and the papers demonstrate the rich interplay between these areas in the rapidly expanding world of observational cosmology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK

    Nick Kaiser

  • Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

    Anthony N. Lasenby

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