The Post-Recombination Universe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Sources at High Redshift

   1. Protogalaxies

      • Lennox L. Cowie

      Pages 1-18

   2. The Search for High Redshift Quasars

      • David Crampton

      Pages 19-31

   3. Cosmological Evolution of Extragalactic Sources

      • L. Danese, A. Franceschini

      Pages 33-50

   4. The Evolution of Extragalactic X-Ray Sources

      • A. C. Fabian

      Pages 51-68

   5. HII Galaxies

      • Roberto Terlevich

      Pages 69-83

   6. The Redshift Cutoff for Steep-Spectrum Radiogalaxies

      • J. E. Baldwin

      Pages 85-89

   7. Quasars Contributing to the Extragalactic X-Ray Flux: The Deep X-Ray Survey in Pavo

      • R. E. Griffiths, I. R. Tuohy, R. J. V. Brissenden, M. Ward, S. S. Murray, R. Burg

      Pages 91-97

   8. The Milli-Jansky Radio Galaxies

      • H. van der Laan, M. J. A. Oort

      Pages 99-100

   9. Cosmogonic Implications of the First Quasars

      • Martin J. Rees

      Pages 101-107

3. Background Radiation Fields

   1. Measurements of CBR Anisotropies at Intermediate Angular Scales

      • Paolo de Bernardis, Silvia Masi, Francesco Melchiorri, Bianca Melchiorri, Nicola Vittorio

      Pages 109-123

   2. Cosmological Implications of the Infrared Background Radiation

      • Michael Rowan-Robinson, Bernard Carr

      Pages 125-140

   3. Origin and Anisotropy of the Cosmic Submillimeter Background

      • C. J. Hogan, J. R. Bond

      Pages 141-149

   4. Non-Gaussian Statistics and the Microwave Background

      • P. Coles

      Pages 151-153

   5. Cosmological Gravitational Waves

      • Eric V. Linder

      Pages 155-158

   6. The Infrared Background From Stars at High Redshift

      • Jonathan C. McDowell

      Pages 159-161

   7. Large-Scale Microwave Background Anisotropies in Cosmological Models with Exotic Components

      • Mirosław Panek

      Pages 163-165

   8. Microwave Background Radiation Observations at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory

      • A. C. S. Readhead, C. R. Lawrence, S. T. Myers, W. L. W. Sargent

      Pages 167-172

   9. Microwave Background Radiation Observations at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory: Analysis and Results

      • C. R. Lawrence, A. C. S. Readhead, S. T. Myers

      Pages 173-181

   10. On Measurements of the Zeldovich-Sunyaev Effect

       • Yoel Rephaeli

       Pages 183-185

This volume consists of invited talks and contributed papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "The Post Recombination Universe" which was held in Cambridge in the summer of 1987. There have, in recent years, been numerous meetings devoted to problems in observational cosmology. The attention given reflects the exciting rate of de­ velopment of the subject, and a survey of the proceedings from these symposia reveals that a great deal of emphasis has been given to consideration of the very early universe on the one hand, and to large scale structure in the universe at the present epoch on the other. The theme of this meeting was chosen to comple­ ment these efforts by focussing on the state of the universe at quite early times, but at those epochs which are still accessible to direct observations. The meet­ ing provided a broad coverage of the post recombination universe by drawing on experts from a wide variety of fields covering theory, background radiation fields and discrete sources at high redshift. Events in the moderately early universe will have left their mark in a great range of wavebands, from X-rays to the microwave region, and the evolution of the universe can be revealed by studies of the inter­ galactic medium, gravitational lensing and the abundance and clustering of high redshift sources. All of these subjects received much attention at the meeting, and the papers demonstrate the rich interplay between these areas in the rapidly expanding world of observational cosmology.

• Dark matter
• Galaxy
• Gravity
• Quasar
• Star
• Universe
• astronomy

• Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK

  Nick Kaiser

• Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

  Anthony N. Lasenby

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