The Deep Universe

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Introduction to the Standard Model

   Pages 3-23

3. The First Test: The Count—Magnitude Relation: Theory and Practice I (The Early Phase 1920–1938)

   Pages 24-40

4. The Count—Magnitude Relation: Theory and Practice II (The Modern Attempts)

   Pages 41-72

5. The Second Test: Angular Size = f(z,q ₀)

   Pages 73-90

6. The Third Test: The Redshift—Distance Relation Based on the m(z, q_o) Hubble Diagram

   Pages 91-126

7. Is the Expansion Real?

   Pages 127-146

8. The Fourth Test: Timing (Age of the Galaxy)

   Pages 147-169

9. Timing Test Continued

   Pages 170-191

10. The Hubble Constant from Type Ia Supernovae

    Pages 192-209

11. Observational Selection Bias

    Pages 210-232

12. Evolution in the Galaxy Population

    1. Foundations of Galaxy Evolution Models

       Pages 233-241

    2. Evolutionary Synthesis Models

       Pages 242-251

    3. Basic Statistics of Galaxies

       Pages 252-262

    4. Computing Models for Faint-Galaxy Samples

       Pages 263-272

    5. Distant Galaxy Observations in the Real World

       Pages 273-280

    6. Galaxy Profiles at High Redshift

       Pages 281-288

    7. Reconciling Counts with the Redshift Distribution

       Pages 289-298

    8. The Butcher-Oemler Effect — A Case Study

       Pages 299-306

    9. Deep-Universe Programs for the Future

       Pages 307-316

Cosmology has not been the subject matter of a Saas-Fee Advanced Course since 1978. That occasion was the memorable course entitled Observational Cosmologyy with lecturers J.E. Gunn, M.S. Longair, and M.J. Rees. A new course on cosmology seemed overdue, and we subsequently planned and or­ ganized, with the endorsement of the Swiss Society of Astrophysics and As­ tronomy, the present, 23"^^ Saas-Fee Advanced Course. Probing (drilling) the Universe to greatest depths, in terms of diffuse radiation and discrete objects, with all consequences for our understanding of cosmic evolution, was meant to be the unifying aspect of this course. Hence the title The Deep Universe. We are very happy to have won such competent and brilliant scientists as lecturers. Malcolm Longair - Saas-Fee lecturer for the second time! - lectured on cosmological background radiation ("The Physics of Background Radia­ tion"); Richard Kron on observations of extremely distant galaxies ("Evo­ lution in the Galaxy Population"); while the Grand Master of Cosmology, Allan Sandage, provided the fundaments of it all, also in a historical sense ("Practical Cosmology: Inventing the Past"). The course took place from 29 March to 3 April, 1993, in Les Diablerets, with around 90 participants. The format was as usual, every lecturer giving 9 or 10 lectures of 45 minutes.

• Universe
• astronomy
• astrophysics
• Big Bang
• cosmic microwave background
• cosmology
• dark matter
• galaxy
• observational cosmology
• Population
• Redshift
• Supernova
• universe

• The Observatories, Pasadena, USA

  A. R. Sandage

• Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, Williams Bay, USA

  R. G. Kron

• Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  M. S. Longair

• The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, USA

  Allan Sandage

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