The Universe at High-z, Large-Scale Structure and the Cosmic Microwave Background: Proceedings of an Advanced Summer School Held at Laredo, Cantabria, Spain, 4–8 September 1995

Mark Dickinson (auth.), Enrique Martínez-González, Jose Luis Sanz (eds.)3540612254, 9783540612254

Cosmology has dramatically evolved during the last decade and there has been vast development of, e.g., theories of galaxy formation in connection with the early universe or gravitational lensing. These new developments motivated the editors to organize a school covering all of these ideas and observations in a pedagogical way. The topics covered in the 26 lectures of this summer school include: QSO absorption systems, identification of objects at high redshift, radiogalaxies, galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy number counts, clustering, theories of structure formation, large-scale structure and streaming motions, gravitational lensing, and spectrum and anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Observational developments, data analysis, and theoretical aspects are equally treated.

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Table of contents :
Galaxy evolution from cluster and absorption-selected samples….Pages 3-21
The Lyα clouds as tracers of the evolution of the universe….Pages 22-41
High-redshift radio galaxies….Pages 42-52
Spectral evolution of galaxies….Pages 53-75
Galaxy formation….Pages 76-97
Primordial nucleosynthesis and light element abundances….Pages 98-107
Peculiar motions in the universe….Pages 111-130
Non-linear evolution of cosmological perturbations….Pages 131-147
Cosmological applications of gravitational lensing….Pages 148-173
Detections of cosmic microwave background anisotropies at large and intermediate angular scales: Data analysis and experimental results….Pages 177-198
Observations of CMB structure with the tenerife experiments….Pages 199-206
Concepts in CMB anisotropy formation….Pages 207-239
Δ T / T beyond linear theory….Pages 240-254