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Observational Cosmology

Proceedings of the 124th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Beijing, China, August 25–30, 1986

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Adelaide Hewitt

    1. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

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  2. Geoffrey Burbidge

    1. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

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  3. Li Zhi Fang

    1. University of Science and Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China

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Part of the book series: International Astronomical Union Symposia (IAUS, volume 124)

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Table of contents (99 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introductory Lecture

    1. Observational Cosmology 1920–1985: An Introduction to the Conference

      • Allan Sandage
      Pages 1-27

  3. The Microwave Background Radiation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Cosmic Microwave Background

      • R. B. Partridge
      Pages 31-53

    3. High Sensitivity Observations of the Microwave Background Radiation

      • R. D. Davies, A. N. Lasenby
      Pages 55-58

    4. Measurement of the Microwave Background Temperature from CN Absorption

      • N. Mandolesi, P. Crane, D. J. Hegyi
      Pages 59-61

    5. Measurement of the Dipole Moment of the Cosmic Background Radiation at mm and Sub-mm Wavelengths

      • Mark Halpern
      Pages 63-68

    6. Rocket Experiment to Search for the Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light

      • T. Matsumoto, M. Akiba, H. Murakami
      Pages 69-72

    7. Large Distances, Hidden Mass and Fluctuations of the Relic Radiation

      • V. N. Lukash, I. D. Novikov
      Pages 73-81

    8. The Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect and H0

      • M. Birkinshaw
      Pages 83-86

  4. The Origin and Abundances of the Light Elements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. On the Origin of the Light Elements (D, 3He, 4He and 7Li)

      • Jean Audouze
      Pages 89-117

    3. Primordial Nucleosynthesis of 7Li

      • Douglas K. Duncan, L. M. Hobbs
      Pages 119-126

  5. The Classical Quantities of Cosmology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. The Status of the Hubble Diagram In 1986

      • Hyron Spinrad, S. Djorgovski
      Pages 129-141

    3. The Radio and Infrared Luminosities of 3CR Radio Galaxies — are they Correlated?

      • M. G. Yates, L. Miller, J. A. Peacock
      Pages 143-146

    4. A Study of the Hubble Flow

      • E. Joseph Wampler
      Pages 147-150

    5. The Cosmic Distance Scale

      • G. A. Tammann
      Pages 151-185

    6. A Distance Scale From The IR Magnitude/HI Velocity Width Relation

      • M. Aaronson
      Pages 187-195

    7. Local Calibrators and H0: The Distance to M31 Using RR Lyrae Stars

      • C. J. Pritchet
      Pages 197-198
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About this book

The Symposium was held at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing, China in the period August 25-30, 1986. The decision to concentrate on the observational aspects of modern cosmology was taken in part because this conference has come in a period when there have been several international meetings on one aspect of modern cosmology, namely the early universe and its possible relationship to particle physics. While that approach is extremely exciting, it has the disadvantage that its connection with much of observational cosmology is very indirect. Thus there has been little opportunity to discuss critically the wealth of new data that are now becoming available which bear on the structure and evolution of the Universe but not always on its early history. This Symposium was planned to cover all aspects of observational cosmology, with only comparatively minor excursions into theory. Nearly 200 participants attended from 21 countries. A total of 26 invited papers and 73 contributed papers were given. This meant that everyone worked hard and long from 9 A.M. to about 5:30 P.M. for five of the six days of the conference. In addition to oral contributions, space was made available for poster papers and 56 of these were available for study for the duration of the conference.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

    Adelaide Hewitt, Geoffrey Burbidge

  • University of Science and Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China

    Li Zhi Fang

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Observational Cosmology

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 124th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Beijing, China, August 25–30, 1986

  • Editors: Adelaide Hewitt, Geoffrey Burbidge, Li Zhi Fang

  • Series Title: International Astronomical Union Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3853-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: International Astronomical Union 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2475-5Due: 30 June 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2476-2Published: 30 June 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3853-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1743-9213

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2186

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 880

  • Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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