Ebook: New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys: Proceedings of the 179th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Baltimore, U.S.A., August 26–30, 1996

Large area sky surveys are now a reality in the radio, IR, optical and X-ray passbands. In the next few years, new surveys using optical, UV and IR mosaic cameras with high throughput digital detectors will expand the dynamic range and accuracy of photometry and astrometry of objects over a significant fraction of the entire sky. Parallel X-ray and radio surveys over the same areas will produce astronomical image and spectroscopic databases of unprecedented size and quality. The combined data sets will provide significant new constraints on star formation, stellar dynamics, Galactic structure, the evolution of galaxies and large scale structure, as well as new opportunities to identify rare objects in the solar system and the Galaxy. Large area surveys have formidable data acquisition, processing, archiving, and data distribution demands and this meeting provided a forum for sharing experiences amongst workers specializing in different wavebands as well as discussing how multiband observations can reveal fundamental relationships in our understanding of the Universe.

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Large area sky surveys are now a reality in the radio, IR, optical and X-ray passbands. In the next few years, new surveys using optical, UV and IR mosaic cameras with high throughput digital detectors will expand the dynamic range and accuracy of photometry and astrometry of objects over a significant fraction of the entire sky. Parallel X-ray and radio surveys over the same areas will produce astronomical image and spectroscopic databases of unprecedented size and quality. The combined data sets will provide significant new constraints on star formation, stellar dynamics, Galactic structure, the evolution of galaxies and large scale structure, as well as new opportunities to identify rare objects in the solar system and the Galaxy. Large area surveys have formidable data acquisition, processing, archiving, and data distribution demands and this meeting provided a forum for sharing experiences amongst workers specializing in different wavebands as well as discussing how multiband observations can reveal fundamental relationships in our understanding of the Universe.

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Large area sky surveys are now a reality in the radio, IR, optical and X-ray passbands. In the next few years, new surveys using optical, UV and IR mosaic cameras with high throughput digital detectors will expand the dynamic range and accuracy of photometry and astrometry of objects over a significant fraction of the entire sky. Parallel X-ray and radio surveys over the same areas will produce astronomical image and spectroscopic databases of unprecedented size and quality. The combined data sets will provide significant new constraints on star formation, stellar dynamics, Galactic structure, the evolution of galaxies and large scale structure, as well as new opportunities to identify rare objects in the solar system and the Galaxy. Large area surveys have formidable data acquisition, processing, archiving, and data distribution demands and this meeting provided a forum for sharing experiences amongst workers specializing in different wavebands as well as discussing how multiband observations can reveal fundamental relationships in our understanding of the Universe.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Prospects of Large Surveys in Astronomy....Pages 3-10
Selection Effects and Biases....Pages 11-17
Radio Surveys....Pages 19-25
Infrared Surveys: A Golden Age of Exploration....Pages 27-40
Photographic Sky Surveys....Pages 41-48
Electronic Optical Sky Surveys....Pages 49-55
Ultraviolet Sky Surveys....Pages 57-67
Gamma Ray Sky Surveys....Pages 69-77
Prospects for Future Astrometric Missions....Pages 79-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Wide-Field Low-Frequency Imaging with the VLA....Pages 89-90
The Miyun 232 MHz General Catalogue....Pages 91-92
Kilometer-Square Area Radio Synthesis Telescope....Pages 93-94
Radio Continuum Surveys Above 2 GHz....Pages 95-96
The MPIfR Radio Continuum Surveys and Their WWW Distribution....Pages 97-99
The UTR-2 Very Low Frequency Sky Survey and Its Main Results....Pages 100-102
The Ratan Galactic Plane Survey....Pages 103-105
Denis: a Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey....Pages 106-108
Sirtf Surveys and Legacy Science....Pages 109-111
The European Large Area ISO Survey: Elais....Pages 112-114
Astronomy on the Midcourse Space Experiment....Pages 115-117
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
The Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (Wire) Mission....Pages 118-120
First Observations with the 1.5 M RC Telescope at Maidanak Observatory....Pages 121-122
Some Results of the BATC CCD Color Survey....Pages 123-124
The Aist-Struve Space Project Sky Survey....Pages 125-126
Aspa—Sky Patrol for the Future....Pages 127-128
Wide Field Optical Imaging at Ctio....Pages 129-130
Lamost Project....Pages 131-134
The AAT’S 2-Degree Field Project....Pages 135-138
Simultaneous Spectra of a Complete Sample of Sources from the PMN Survey....Pages 139-141
Arops: The Asiago Red Objective-Prism Survey....Pages 142-143
EUV Sources and Transients Detected by the Alexis Satellite....Pages 144-146
The UIT Survey of the Ultraviolet Sky Background....Pages 147-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Physical Processes in the Large Scale ISM from Dust Observations....Pages 153-164
Relations Between Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium....Pages 165-171
A Denis Survey of Star Forming Regions....Pages 172-174
Tracing the Interstellar Medium in Ophiuchus Across 14 Orders of Magnitude in Frequency....Pages 175-176
A New Co Survey of the Monoceros OB1 Region....Pages 177-178
An H? Survey of the Galactic Plane....Pages 179-181
An Imaging Survey of the Galactic H-Alpha Emission with Arcminute Resolution....Pages 182-183
Front Matter....Pages 184-185
The Marseille Observatory H? Survey: Comparisons with CO, 6 CM and Iras Data....Pages 151-151
A Large-Scale CO Imaging of the Galactic Center....Pages 186-188
Survey of Correlated FIR, HI, CO, and Radio-Continuum Emission Features in the Multi-Phase Milky Way....Pages 189-190
Survey of Fine-Scale Structure in the Far-Infrared Milky Way....Pages 191-193
Front Matter....Pages 194-196
Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way....Pages 197-197
Kinematics and the Galactic Potential....Pages 199-208
Using Multi-Wavelength All Sky Information to Understand Large Scale Galactic Structure....Pages 209-216
Structure and Kinematical Properties of the Galaxy at Intermediate Galactic Latitudes....Pages 217-220
Proper Motions in the Bulge: Looking Through Plaut’s Low Extinction Window....Pages 221-222
Galactic Structure with the APS Catalog of the Poss I....Pages 223-224
Galactic Structure with GSC-II Material....Pages 225-227
Investigation of Galactic Structure with Denis Star Counts....Pages 228-230
Starcounts in the Hubble Deep Field: Fewer than Expected, More than Expected....Pages 231-233
Multiwavelength Milky Way: An Educational Poster....Pages 234-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Weak Gravitational Lensing—The Need for Surveys....Pages 239-239
The Evolution of Quasars and Their Clustering....Pages 241-248
Towards a Better Understanding of Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 249-256
Measures of Galactic and Intergalactic Mass in Clusters....Pages 257-265
The Scaling Relations for Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 266-267
The Radio Properties of X-Ray Selected Extragalactic Objects....Pages 268-269
Front Matter....Pages 270-272
Uncovering Ultra-Luminous Galaxies in the IRAS FSC Through Radio and Optical Cross-Identification....Pages 239-239
Early Results from an HST Imaging Survey of the Ultraluminous IR Galaxies....Pages 273-274
The K-Band Luminosity Function of Galaxies....Pages 275-277
The K-Band Wide Field Survey: Understanding the Local Galaxies....Pages 278-280
Multi-Color Surface Photometry of Nearby Galaxies....Pages 281-284
Muti-Color Imaging of Clusters of Galaxies with Mosaic CCD Cameras....Pages 285-286
QSO Color Selection in the SDSS....Pages 287-290
The Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey....Pages 291-292
The Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey: First Results....Pages 293-295
Hamburg/SAO Survey of Emission-Line Galaxies....Pages 296-298
Kiss: A New Digital Survey for Emission-Line Objects....Pages 299-301
How to Find BL Lac Objects in the Rass....Pages 302-304
The Warps X-Ray Survey of Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters....Pages 305-307
The Warps Blazar Survey....Pages 308-309
Results from ASCA Sky Surveys....Pages 310-311
Front Matter....Pages 312-313
Large Scale Structure of the Universe....Pages 315-315
Large Scale Structure in the Ly? Forest....Pages 317-328
A Search for Large Voids from Combined Samples of Galaxy Clusters and Galaxies....Pages 329-331
Low Luminosity Galaxy Distribution in Low Density Regions....Pages 332-334
Clustering Properties of Faint Blue Galaxies....Pages 335-336
Front Matter....Pages 337-338
The K-Band Hubble Diagram for X-Ray Selected Brightest Cluster Galaxies....Pages 315-315
Multiwavelength Study of the Shapley Concentration....Pages 339-341
A Rich Cluster Redshift Survey for Large-Scale Structure Studies....Pages 342-343
The Eso Slice Project (ESP) Redshift Survey....Pages 344-345
Input Catalogue for the 2df QSO Redshift Survey....Pages 346-347
Redshift Survey of 951 IRAS Galaxies in the Southern Milky Way....Pages 348-350
A Deep 20 CM Radio Mosaic of the ESP Galaxy Redshift Survey....Pages 351-352
Radio Emission from High Redshift Galaxies: VLA Observations of the Hubble Deep Field....Pages 353-355
Exposing New Components of the X-Ray Background with Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys....Pages 356-357
Front Matter....Pages 358-359
Statistical Methodology for Large Astronomical Surveys....Pages 361-361
Digital Colour Mapping of the Sky from Supercosmos....Pages 363-370
Colour Equations For Techpan Films....Pages 371-373
An Objective Approach to Spectral Classification....Pages 374-375
GSPC-II: A Catalog of Photometric Calibrators for the Second Generation Guide Star Catalog....Pages 376-378
Techniques for Schmidt Plate Reductions with Application to GSC1.2....Pages 379-380
Wading Through the Quagmire of Schmidt-Plate Coordinate Systematics....Pages 381-383
Progress in Wide Field CCD Astrometry....Pages 384-385
Linking the Radio and Optical Frames with Merlin....Pages 386-388
Front Matter....Pages 389-391
Overview of the Tycho Catalogue....Pages 393-393
Main Properties of the Hipparcos Catalogue....Pages 395-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-405
The Astrographic Catalogue....Pages 393-393
Completion of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute Astrographic Catalogue Project....Pages 406-408
Salvaging an Astrometric Treasure....Pages 409-414
A New High Density, High Precision Astrometric Catalog....Pages 415-417
Contents, Test Results, and Data Availability for GSC 1.2....Pages 418-419
The 488,006,860 Sources in the USNO-A1.0 Catalog....Pages 420-421
Cataloging of the Digitized POSS-II: Initial Scientific Results....Pages 422-423
The Second Guide Star Catalogue....Pages 424-430
The Rosat All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog....Pages 431-432
Front Matter....Pages 433-434
Cross Wavelength Comparison of Images and Catalogs....Pages 435-435
The Hamburg Identification Program of Rosat All-Sky Survey Sources....Pages 437-443
Cross-Correlation of Large Scale Surveys: Radio-Loud Objects in the Rosat All Sky Survey....Pages 444-446
Identification of a Complete Sample of Northern Rosat All-Sky Survey X-Ray Sources....Pages 447-448
The OPTID Database: Deep Optical Identifications to the IRAS Faint Source Survey....Pages 449-449
Front Matter....Pages 450-451
Exploring Terabyte Archives in Astronomy....Pages 453-453
The Wide-Field Plate Database: A New Tool in Observational Astronomy....Pages 455-461
Skyview: The Multi-Wavelength Sky on the Interne....Pages 462-464
A WWW Database of APS POSS Images....Pages 465-466
The Aladin Interactive Sky Atlas....Pages 467-468
The SDSS Science Archive....Pages 469-470
Front Matter....Pages 471-473
The GSC-I and GSC-II Databases: An Object-Oriented Approach....Pages 453-453
Surveys in the ADC Archive....Pages 474-477
Global Network Access and Publication of Survey Data....Pages 478-479
Front Matter....Pages 480-486
The Nature and Significance of Surveys....Pages 487-487
Summary Talk: Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys....Pages 489-492
Back Matter....Pages 493-499
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