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New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys

Proceedings of the 179th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Baltimore, U.S.A., August 26–30, 1996

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  • © 1998

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  1. Brian J. McLean

    1. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA

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  2. Daniel A. Golombek

    1. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA

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  3. Jeffrey J. E. Hayes

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  4. Harry E. Payne

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Part of the book series: International Astronomical Union Symposia (IAUS, volume 179)

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Table of contents (125 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. General Sky Survey Reviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Prospects of Large Surveys in Astronomy

      • M. Harwit
      Pages 3-10

    3. Selection Effects and Biases

      • M. Disney
      Pages 11-17

    4. Radio Surveys

      • J. J. Condon
      Pages 19-25

    5. Infrared Surveys: A Golden Age of Exploration

      • C. A. Beichman
      Pages 27-40

    6. Photographic Sky Surveys

      • I. N. Reid
      Pages 41-48

    7. Electronic Optical Sky Surveys

      • T. A. Mckay
      Pages 49-55

    8. Ultraviolet Sky Surveys

      • N. Brosch
      Pages 57-67

    9. Gamma Ray Sky Surveys

      • N. Gehrels
      Pages 69-77

    10. Prospects for Future Astrometric Missions

      • P. K. Seidelmann
      Pages 79-85

  3. Survey Projects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Wide-Field Low-Frequency Imaging with the VLA

      • N. E. Kassim, D. S. Briggs, R. S. Foster
      Pages 89-90

    3. The Miyun 232 MHz General Catalogue

      • B. Peng, W. Yuan, R. Nan, Y. Yan
      Pages 91-92

    4. Kilometer-Square Area Radio Synthesis Telescope

      • B. Peng, R. Nan
      Pages 93-94

    5. Radio Continuum Surveys Above 2 GHz

      • J. L. Jonas
      Pages 95-96

    6. The MPIfR Radio Continuum Surveys and Their WWW Distribution

      • E. Fürst, W. Reich, P. Reich, B. Uyaniker, R. Wielebinski
      Pages 97-99

    7. The UTR-2 Very Low Frequency Sky Survey and Its Main Results

      • K. P. Sokolov
      Pages 100-102

    8. The Ratan Galactic Plane Survey

      • S. A. Trushkin
      Pages 103-105

    9. Denis: a Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey

      • N. Epchtein
      Pages 106-108
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Large area sky surveys are now a reality in the radio, IR, optical and X-ray passbands. In the next few years, new surveys using optical, UV and IR mosaic cameras with high throughput digital detectors will expand the dynamic range and accuracy of photometry and astrometry of objects over a significant fraction of the entire sky. Parallel X-ray and radio surveys over the same areas will produce astronomical image and spectroscopic databases of unprecedented size and quality. The combined data sets will provide significant new constraints on star formation, stellar dynamics, Galactic structure, the evolution of galaxies and large scale structure, as well as new opportunities to identify rare objects in the solar system and the Galaxy. Large area surveys have formidable data acquisition, processing, archiving, and data distribution demands and this meeting provided a forum for sharing experiences amongst workers specializing in different wavebands as well as discussing how multiband observations can reveal fundamental relationships in our understanding of the Universe.

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  • Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA

    Brian J. McLean, Daniel A. Golombek, Jeffrey J. E. Hayes, Harry E. Payne

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