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The Epoch of Galaxy Formation

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Carlos S. Frenk

    1. Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, UK

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  2. Richard S. Ellis

    1. Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, UK

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  3. Tom Shanks

    1. Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, UK

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  4. Alan F. Heavens

    1. The Royal Observatory, Edinburg, UK

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  5. John A. Peacock

    1. The Royal Observatory, Edinburg, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 264)

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Table of contents (72 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Forming Galaxies

    1. Galaxy Formation: High Redshift or Low?

      • P. J. E. Peebles
      Pages 1-13

    2. Observable Signatures of Young Galaxies

      • Simon D. M. White
      Pages 15-30

    3. A Multicolor Search for Forming Galaxies

      • Lennox L. Cowie
      Pages 31-38

    4. Lyman-Alpha Galaxies in 1988

      • Hyron Spinrad
      Pages 39-56

    5. Morphological Evolution of Radio Galaxies

      • Patrick J. McCarthy, Wil van Breugel
      Pages 57-62

    6. High Redshift Radio Galaxies and Galaxy Formation

      • Simon J. Lilly
      Pages 63-69

    7. Deep Surveys of Field and Low-Flux-Radio Galaxies

      • David C. Koo
      Pages 71-83

    8. Constraints on the Epoch of Galaxy Formation from Deep U-Band Counts

      • S. R. Majewski
      Pages 85-88

  3. Gas Clouds at High Redshift

    1. Lyman Line Absorption Systems

      • R. F. Carswell
      Pages 89-99

    2. Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers: The Progenitors of Galactic Disks

      • A. M. Wolfe
      Pages 101-105

    3. A Chemically Young Galaxy at z = 2.3

      • Max Pettini, Alec Boksenberg, Richard W. Hunstead
      Pages 107-113

    4. Lyman α Emission from a Possible Primeval Galaxy at z = 2.5

      • Richard W. Hunstead, Max Pettini
      Pages 115-120

  4. Quasars

    1. The Quasar Redshift Cut-Off

      • Richard F. Green
      Pages 121-133

    2. Fifty-Three Multicolour Selected Quasars with Redshifts Greater Than Three

      • S. J. Warren, P. C. Hewett, P. S. Osmer
      Pages 135-139

    3. The Luminosity Function and Clustering of QSOs

      • T. Shanks, R. Fong, B. J. Boyle, B. A. Peterson
      Pages 141-145

    4. High Redshift Quasars in the Cold Dark Matter Cosmology

      • G. Efstathiou
      Pages 147-152

    5. The Intergalactic Medium and the Epoch of Galaxy Formation

      • Paul R. Shapiro, Mark L. Giroux
      Pages 153-161

    6. A Cooling Flow Around the Quasar 3C196

      • C. S. Crawford
      Pages 163-166

  5. Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters

    1. Galaxy Evolution in High Density Environments

      • James E. Gunn
      Pages 167-178
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Scientists in the late twentieth century are not the first to view galaxy formation as a phenomenon worthy of explanation in terms of the known laws of physics. Already in 1754 Kant regarded the problem as essentially solved. In his Univerlal Natural Hutory and Theory 0/ the H eaven$ he wrote; "If in the immesurable space in which all the suns of the Milky Way have formed themselves, we assume a point around which, through some cause or other, the first formation of nature out of chaoo began, there the largest mass and a body of extraordinary attraction will have arisen which has thereby become capable of compelling all the systems in the process of being formed within an enormous sphere around it, to fall towards itself as their centre, and to build up a system around it on the great scale . . . . Observation puts this conjecture almost beyond doubt. " More than 200 years later, a similar note of confidence was voiced by Zel'dovicb at an IAU symposium held in Tallin in 1911; "Extrapolating . . . to the next symposium somewhere in the early eighties one can be pretty sure that the question of the formation of galaxies and clusters will be solved in the next few years. " Perhaps few astronomers today would share Kant's near certainty or feel that Zel'dovich's prophecy has been fulfilled, Many, however, will sympathize with the optimistic olltlook of these two statements.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, UK

    Carlos S. Frenk, Richard S. Ellis, Tom Shanks

  • The Royal Observatory, Edinburg, UK

    Alan F. Heavens, John A. Peacock

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