Looking Deep in the Southern Sky

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Opening Remarks

      • Jeremy Mould

      Pages 3-5

3. Deep Imaging and Redshift Surveys

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey

      • Matthew Colless

      Pages 9-15

   3. The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey

      • B. J. Boyle, S. M. Croom, R. J. Smith, T. Shanks, L. Miller, N. Loaring

      Pages 16-20

   4. A Complete 2dF Survey of Fornax

      • M. J. Drinkwater, E. M. Sadler, J. I. Davies, R. J. Dickens, M. D. Gregg, Q. A. Parker et al.

      Pages 21-22

   5. Galaxies Behind the Deepest Extinction Layer of the Southern Milky Way

      • Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg, Bärbel Koribalski, Sebastian Juraszek

      Pages 23-28

   6. Surveys of Peculiar Velocities of Galaxies

      • Wolfram Freudling

      Pages 29-33

   7. ESO Imaging Survey

      • Luiz da Costa, Alvio Renzini

      Pages 34-41

   8. Cosmological Tests from the New Surveys

      • Ofer Lahav

      Pages 42-50

   9. Mapping the Dark Matter with Weak Gravitational Lensing

      • Peter Schneider

      Pages 51-58

   10. Weak Lensing with MEGACAM and the VLT

       • Yannick Mellier, Ludovic van Waerbeke, Francis Bernardeau, Olivier Le Fèvre

       Pages 59-65

   11. The Cosmological Uncertainty Principle

       • Christopher Fluke, Rachel Webster

       Pages 66-67

   12. Gravitational Lensing in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey

       • Daniel J. Mortlock, Rachel L. Webster

       Pages 68-69

   13. A Weak Gravitational Lensing Cluster Survey

       • G. Squires, P. Rosati, J. Silk, T. Broadhurst

       Pages 70-71

   14. Surveys with the BTC Mosaic CCD Camera at the Blanco 4m Telescope

       • Malcolm G. Smith

       Pages 72-77

   15. Deep Images of Bright Galaxies

       • David Malin, Brian Hadley

       Pages 78-82

   16. A Deep Tech Pan Survey of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies in Virgo

       • Quentin A. Parker, Steven Phillipps

       Pages 83-88

   17. Surveys with a 4m Liquid Mirror Telescope

       • C. Jean, J.-F. Claeskens, J. Surdej

       Pages 89-90

The idea of a joint ESO / Australia meeting on the large number of exciting new facilities that are, or will soon be, available tihne southern hemisphere arose quite naturally. In the optical and the near-infrared, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) will soon be operational. In the radio, the Australia Telescope Com­ pact Array is going to be upgraded to higher frequencies (20 and 100 GHz), together with an improvement in very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) facil­ ities. Other major facilities, such as the Large Millimetre Array and the lkT are being planned. Moreover, new deep surveys are underway in the southern hemi­ sphere: the southern Hubble Deep Field, the ESO Imaging Survey (BIS), pan­ oramic deep surveys with the UK Schmidt telescope, and the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) 2dF galaxy/QSO redshift survey in the optical; and the Parkes multibeam HI survey and Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) Wide Field continuum survey at radio wavelengths. With all these new facilities, important progress will be made regarding important issues such as the large­ scale structure of the universe, the very early universe and the associated first epoch of galaxy formation. The generation of large databases, and the oppor­ tunity for sensitive follow-up observations in complementary wavebands, mean that coordinated radio, infrared and optical projects in the southern hemisphere are likely to become increasingly attractive and important.

• CCD
• Hubble Deep Field South
• Redshift
• astronomy
• cosmic ray
• cosmology
• early universe
• galaxies
• gravitation
• observational cosmology
• radio astronomy
• star
• star formation
• telescope
• universe

• Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy

  Raffaella Morganti

• School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  Warrick J. Couch

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