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The Early Universe with the VLT

Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 1–4 April 1996

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Jacqueline Bergeron

    1. Science Division, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

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Part of the book series: ESO Astrophysics Symposia (ESO)

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Table of contents (74 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXII
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  3. The VLT First Generation Instrument Capabilities as Cosmological Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. ISAAC — IR Spectrometer and Array Camera

      • Alan F. M. Moorwood, Jason Spyromilio
      Pages 21-26

    3. Observing the Early Universe with CONICA

      • Rainer Lenzen
      Pages 27-34

    4. Spectroscopy of Faint Distant Objects with FORS

      • I. Appenzeller, O. Stahl, S. Kiesewetter-K., R.-P. Kudritzki, H. Nicklas, G. Rupprecht
      Pages 35-42

    5. FUEGOS: Multi-Objects and 2-D Spectrograph for the VLT

      • Paul Felenbok
      Pages 43-53

    6. The ESO UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES)

      • S. D’Odorico
      Pages 54-61

  4. Galaxy Evolution at z ≲ 1

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Evolution of Normal Galaxies: HST Morphologies and Deep Spectroscopy

      • Richard Ellis
      Pages 65-78

    3. The Canada France Redshift Survey

      • F. Hammer, S. Lilly, D. Crampton, O. Le Fèvre, H. Flores, D. Schade
      Pages 79-86

    4. Galaxy Evolution: Luminosities and Linewidths

      • Matthew Colless
      Pages 87-94

    5. Distant Supernovae and Cosmic Deceleration

      • Bruno Leibundgut, Jason Spyromilio
      Pages 95-104

    6. Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies up to z ≈ 1

      • R. Bender, R. P. Saglia, B. Ziegler
      Pages 105-112

    7. Constraining the Evolution of Galaxy Masses and the M/L Ratios out to z=1

      • Marijn Franx, Pieter G. van Dokkum
      Pages 113-118

    8. 2D Spectroscopy of Remote Radiogalaxies with TIGER

      • Gilles Adam
      Pages 119-125

    9. Spectro-Imaging of Starburst Galaxies: Present and Future

      • Georges Comte, Tigran Movsessyan, Artashes Petrosian
      Pages 126-130

  5. Search for Highest Redshift Galaxies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Keck Spectroscopy of Redshift z ~ 1 Field Galaxies

      • David C. Koo
      Pages 133-142
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About this book

This is the second ESO workshop in aseries dedicated to science oppor­ tunities with the VLT. At the first workshop all areas of astronomical research were discussed. This second workshop is dedicated to research projects on the early Universe and has provided a forum for discussing strategies for studying faint distant objects in the optical and infrared spectral regions. This field is evolving very rapidly. There are several new surveys of galax­ ies and clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshift and quasars at very high redshift. Major advances in the morphological studies of distant galaxies, surveys of galaxies at high redshift and searches for primeval galaxies have been rendered possible by the new facilities provided by the Rubble Space Telescope and the Keck Telescope. Observational constraints on the evolution and formation of galaxies and large-scale structures as well as the cosmic chemical evolution were criti­ cally discussed with regard to theory and numerical simulations. In this context, the VLT first generation instrument capabilities were presented comprehensively and their use as cosmological tools discussed . The concluding remarks of the workshop focussed on the analysis of var­ ious possibilities for the VLT second generation instrumentation. Many of these topics were covered by invited reviews and talks, as well as some contributed talks. They are included in this volume together with the poster papers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Science Division, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

    Jacqueline Bergeron

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Early Universe with the VLT

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 1–4 April 1996

  • Editors: Jacqueline Bergeron

  • Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49709-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-22488-5Published: 20 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49709-7Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1431-2433

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 441

  • Number of Illustrations: 213 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Geophysics/Geodesy

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