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High-Redshift Galaxies

Light from the Early Universe

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Immo Appenzeller

    1. Landessternwarte Königstuhl, Heidelberg, Germany

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  • Very timely book on very active research field with relevance to Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
  • Provides a comprehensive account of the scientific results on high-redshift galaxies accumulated during the past ten years
  • A valuable companion text for special lectures on the high-redshift universe and cosmic evolution
  • Serves as important tool for research students starting a thesis work in the field of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology
  • Provides a thorough introduction to the topic for interested researchers
  • Designed as a tool for planning future observational and instrumental programs and projects
  • Written for astronomers as well as for physicists not having prior astronomical knowledge
  • Contains introductory chapters describing the basic concepts and notations used in modern astronomy and a brief overview of the present knowledge of the local universe
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library (AAL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. Part I The Context

    1. Introduction

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 3-10

    2. The Nearby Universe

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 11-72

    3. The Past and the Future

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 73-117

  4. Methods and Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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  5. Part II Methods and Tools

    1. Basic Techniques and their Limitations

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 121-151

    2. Finding Very Distant Galaxies

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 153-173

    3. Deriving Physical Parameters

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 175-202

  6. Observational Results and Their Interpretation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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  7. Part III Observational Results and their Interpretation

    1. Observed Properties of High-redshift Galaxies

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 205-268

    2. The Space Distribution of High-redshift Galaxies

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 269-276

    3. Interactions with the Intergalactic Medium

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 277-291

    4. Implications

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 293-307

  8. An Outlook to the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309
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  9. Part IV An Outlook to the Future

    1. Ongoing Work

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 311-318

    2. Future Facilities and their Opportunities

      • Immo Appenzeller
      Pages 319-331

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 1-19
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About this book

The high-redshift galaxies became a distinct research ?eld during the ?nal decade of the20thcentury. AtthattimetheLyman-breaktechniquemadeitpossibletoidentify signi?cant samples of such objects, and the new generation of 8 to 10-m telescopes resulted in ?rst good spectroscopic data. Today the high-redshift galaxies have developed into one of the important topics of astrophysics, accounting for about 5–10% of the publications in the major scienti?c journals devoted to astronomy. Because high-redshift galaxies is a rapidly developing ?eld and since new results are published constantly, writing a book on this topic is challenging. On the other hand, in view of the large amount of individual results now in the literature, and in view of the still growing interest in this topic, it appears worthwhile to summarize and evaluate the available data and to provide an introduction for those who wish to enter this ?eld, or who, for various reasons, might be interested in its results. The end of the ?rst decade of the 21st century appears to be a good point in time to attempt such a summary. The current generation of ground-based 8 to 10-m - optical telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the most important large radio telescopes have by now been in operation since about one or two decades. Although these instruments will continue to produce important scienti?c results for some time to come, many of the initial programs exploiting their unique new possibilities have been completed.

Reviews

From the reviews: “This ambitious book aims to summarize our view of high-redshift galaxies and their contents. … He describes how to find high-redshift objects, how to characterize them, how to deal with selection effects, and so on. … Appenzeller has done a fine job in summarizing the study of high-redshift galaxies and this will act as an excellent introduction to the subject for students and researchers.” (Paul O’Brien, The Observatory, Vol. 130 (1214), February, 2010)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Landessternwarte Königstuhl, Heidelberg, Germany

    Immo Appenzeller

About the author

Prof. Immo Appenzeller is the emeritus director of the Heidelberg Observatory (Landessternwarte Heidelberg). From 1994 - 1997 he served as General Secretary of the International Astronomical Union. He was PI or CO of various large national and international instrumentation and research projects. His current main research topics are very distant (young) galaxies, active galaxies and QSOs, massive luminous stars, cosmic X-ray sources, astronomical instrumentation.

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