Ebook: Observational Cosmology: Proceedings of the 124th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Beijing, China, August 25–30, 1986

The Symposium was held at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing, China in the period August 25-30, 1986. The decision to concentrate on the observational aspects of modern cosmology was taken in part because this conference has come in a period when there have been several international meetings on one aspect of modern cosmology, namely the early universe and its possible relationship to particle physics. While that approach is extremely exciting, it has the disadvantage that its connection with much of observational cosmology is very indirect. Thus there has been little opportunity to discuss critically the wealth of new data that are now becoming available which bear on the structure and evolution of the Universe but not always on its early history. This Symposium was planned to cover all aspects of observational cosmology, with only comparatively minor excursions into theory. Nearly 200 participants attended from 21 countries. A total of 26 invited papers and 73 contributed papers were given. This meant that everyone worked hard and long from 9 A.M. to about 5:30 P.M. for five of the six days of the conference. In addition to oral contributions, space was made available for poster papers and 56 of these were available for study for the duration of the conference.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Observational Cosmology 1920–1985: An Introduction to the Conference....Pages 1-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The Cosmic Microwave Background....Pages 31-53
High Sensitivity Observations of the Microwave Background Radiation....Pages 55-58
Measurement of the Microwave Background Temperature from CN Absorption....Pages 59-61
Measurement of the Dipole Moment of the Cosmic Background Radiation at mm and Sub-mm Wavelengths....Pages 63-68
Rocket Experiment to Search for the Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light....Pages 69-72
Large Distances, Hidden Mass and Fluctuations of the Relic Radiation....Pages 73-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-86
On the Origin of the Light Elements (D, 3He, 4He and 7Li)....Pages 87-87
Primordial Nucleosynthesis of 7Li....Pages 89-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-126
The Status of the Hubble Diagram In 1986....Pages 127-127
The Radio and Infrared Luminosities of 3CR Radio Galaxies — are they Correlated?....Pages 129-141
A Study of the Hubble Flow....Pages 143-146
The Cosmic Distance Scale....Pages 147-150
A Distance Scale From The IR Magnitude/HI Velocity Width Relation....Pages 151-185
Local Calibrators and H0: The Distance to M31 Using RR Lyrae Stars....Pages 187-195
Distance Moduli from the Tully-Fisher Relation....Pages 197-198
Estimates of ? Based on Motions Within the Local Supercluster....Pages 199-205
A New Measurement of the Geometry of Space....Pages 207-215
Non-Uniformities in the Hubble Flow: Results from a Survey of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 217-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-227
Distribution of IRAS Galaxies....Pages 127-127
Contributions to the Local Gravitational Field From Beyond the Virgo Supercluster....Pages 229-245
The Angular Size — Redshift Relation as a Cosmological Tool....Pages 247-250
Radio Bending at High Redshifts — A New Probe of Protogalaxies?....Pages 251-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-271
The Distribution of Bright Galaxies....Pages 273-273
Large-Scale Structure: The Center for Astrophysics Redshift Survey....Pages 275-300
The Galaxian Surface Density in the Nearby Universe....Pages 301-313
Tracing Superclusters and Voids with Abell Clusters....Pages 315-318
Simulations of Large-Scale Structure Compared to Abell Cluster Distribution....Pages 319-322
Shape of Superclusters....Pages 323-326
An Analysis of Fifty-Five Bright Southern Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 327-329
Large-Scale Structure in the Universe: Spatial Distribution and Peculiar Velocities....Pages 331-333
Spatial Distribution of Galaxies: Biased Galaxy Formation, Supercluster-Void Topology, and Isolated Galaxies....Pages 335-348
The Void Probability Function as a Statistical Indicator....Pages 349-358
Large-Scale Distribution of Galaxies with Different Luminosities....Pages 359-362
The Distribution of Faint Galaxies....Pages 363-366
Evolution of Very Faint Field Galaxies and Quasars....Pages 367-381
Front Matter....Pages 383-388
Galaxy Formation: Confrontation with Observations....Pages 389-389
Towards Understanding the Large-Scale Structure ?....Pages 391-413
The Sponge-Like Topology of Large Scale Structure in the Universe....Pages 415-432
Front Matter....Pages 433-436
Systematic Properties of Galaxies: Implications for Galaxy Formation....Pages 389-389
Search for Proto-Clusters at Meter Wavelengths....Pages 437-439
Front Matter....Pages 441-444
Alternative Cosmologies....Pages 445-445
Topology of the Universe....Pages 447-459
Front Matter....Pages 461-475
Observations Requiring a Non-Standard Approach....Pages 477-477
Is there an alignment of quasars near NGC 520 ?....Pages 479-498
Redshift Asymmetries and the Missing Mass....Pages 499-502
A Possible Tired-Light Mechanism....Pages 503-506
Front Matter....Pages 507-511
The Luminosities and Sizes of Disk Galaxies in Clusters....Pages 513-513
Luminosity Segregation in Distant Galaxy Clusters....Pages 515-517
Elemental Abundances and Temperature Distributions in the Intra-Cluster Medium of the Perseus Cluster....Pages 519-521
Tidal Triggering of Seyfert Galaxies and Quasars: Physical Sufficiency....Pages 523-526
An Interesting Pair of Active Galaxies....Pages 527-530
A Comment on the Seyfert Environment....Pages 531-534
Search for Structural Changes in the Cores of “Nearby” Radio Galaxies....Pages 535-536
Front Matter....Pages 537-541
Radio Source Counts and their Interpretation....Pages 543-543
The 10 GHz Log N — Log S Curve Obtained At NRO....Pages 545-564
Molonglo Deep Survey at 843 MHz....Pages 565-568
Ultradeep Optical Identifications and Spectroscopy of Faint Radio Sources....Pages 569-572
Front Matter....Pages 573-576
The Distribution of X-ray Emitting Quasars in Space....Pages 577-577
Front Matter....Pages 579-592
X-ray Surveys as Tools to Investigate the Cosmological Evolution of Quasars, BL LAC Objects and Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 577-577
Logn-Logs Slope Determination in Imaging X-ray Astronomy....Pages 593-595
The Exosat High Galactic Latitude Survey....Pages 597-599
Correlation of X-ray and Infrared Emission of Radio-Quiet QSOs....Pages 601-605
The Cosmic X-ray Background....Pages 607-609
Front Matter....Pages 611-615
Cosmic Distribution of Optically Selected Quasars....Pages 617-617
Spatial Distribution of Quasars....Pages 619-625
The Cosmic Evolution of Quasars at High Redshifts....Pages 627-638
The Clustering and Evolution of Optically-Selected QSOs....Pages 639-641
On Cosmological Evolution of Quasars....Pages 643-647
The Space Distribution of Faint CFHT Quasars....Pages 649-653
Counts of optically selected quasars in the magnitude range 19‹J‹22....Pages 655-655
A Multi-Colour Survey For High-Redshift Quasars....Pages 657-659
The Infrared Spectra of Quasars — A Luminosity Dependence....Pages 661-664
Spectroscopy of Qsos from the Texas Radio Survey....Pages 665-668
A Complete Sample of Flat-Spectrum Radio Sources from the Parkes 2.7 GHz Survey....Pages 669-672
The Evolution of Quasars Selected By Slitless Technique....Pages 673-675
The Application of the Study of Galaxies Associated with Quasars to Observational Cosmology....Pages 677-679
Complete Samples of Variable Quasars....Pages 681-683
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