Radio surveys play an important role in observational cosmology. However, until recently the surveys have been either of wide area but with low sensitivity or of small area with high sensitivity. Both limit the kinds of cosmology that can be carried out with radio surveys.
This situation has been revolutionised in the past few years by the availability of new, large-area, high-sensitivity radio surveys at both low and high radio frequencies. These significant improvements allow studies based on both the statistics of the surveys themselves and multiwavelength follow-up of the galaxies and AGN responsible for the radio emission. It is therefore an opportune time to summarise progress in this field with a workshop.
This book comprises the proceedings of the `Observational Cosmology with the New Radio Surveys' workshop, held on Tenerife, January 13-15, 1997. Topics covered include: lessons learned and important results from earlier surveys, descriptions of some of the new surveys, clusters of galaxies and large-scale structure, radio source evolution, CMB studies, gravitational lensing and multiwavelength studies of distant radio sources.
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978-94-011-5238-9 (9789401152389)
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10.1007/978-94-011-5238-9
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Radio astronomy and cosmology: lessons from the past -3C, 4C.- The high redshift 3CR radio galaxies: cD galaxies in high redshift clusters.- HST snapshot imaging of 3C sources.- The warm gas in high redshift radio galaxies: new results on the alignment effect.- x201C;Dissecting" 3C radio galaxies at redshift ~1.- The NRAO VLA sky survey: lessons applied.- NVSS observations of UGC galaxies.- 1.4-GHz luminosity function of galaxies from the Las Campanas redshift survey.- Radio-optical orientation of E/S0 galaxies: APM versus FIRST.- A wider view from the south.- The Cambridge low frequency radio surveys: 6C, 7C, 8C.- Current status of radio source databases.- Imaging the cosmic microwave background.- The CAT: cosmic microwave background anisotropies and sources at 15 GHz.- The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and Hubble's constant.- A high-redshift cluster detected via its S-Z effect.- The S-Z effect at high redshift.- X-ray Detections of distant radio galaxies.- Searching for FIRST radio arcs near ACO clusters.- Clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshifts from the VLA sky survey.- The connection between radio halos and rich clusters.- The radio galaxy 1138-262 at z=2.2: a forming cD galaxy at the centre of a cluster?.- Cosmological inference from new radio surveys.- Probing density fluctuations using the FIRST radio survey.- The Westerbork Northern Sky survey: current status of the survey and the study of Large Scale Structure.- Large-scale structure from radio surveys.- Calibration issues in the search for large-scale anisotropies in the 87 Green Bank and Parkes-MIT-NRAO surveys.- Cosmic star-formation & radio source evolution.- Spectroscopy of USS sources from the WENSS mini-survey: Evidence for a redshift cutoff for steep-spectrum radio sources.- Cosmology withredshift surveys of radio sources.- The evolution of radio sources from complete samples.- Searching for the most distant radio galaxies.- Observed redshift distributions and cosmological evolution of radio sources.- Radio loud quasars at high redshift.- Declining quasar fractions as evidence for unified schemes.- A complete sample of quasars from the 7C redshift survey.- The luminosity-size evolution of FRII sources.- The angular size-redshift test for compact radio sources in the Caltech-Jodrell Bank surveys.- VLBI Surveys as a Tool for Cosmological Tests.- The cosmic evolution of giant radiosources.- A new sample of z > 0.3 giant radio galaxies from the WENSS and the FIRST surveys.- Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum sources as cosmological probes.- The angular size distribution of 4741 radio sources in the MIT/VLA snapshot archive.- Radio spectra and NVSS maps of decametric sources.- Spectral analysis of the B3 VLA survey.- Using new submillimetre surveys to identify the evolutionary status of high-z galaxies.- A deep VLA survey of the ISO survey regions.- IR imaging of distant WENSS sources.- The optical identification of faint microwave sources.- Observations of quasar host galaxies.- Molonglo quasars: reddening and torus geometry.- Red quasars: not so dusty.- Radio and optical properties of a faint radio galaxy sample.- Radio to X-Ray properties of AGN.- X-ray properties of radio-loud quasars.- Cosmological implications of gravitational lens surveys.- Results from the JVAS/CLASS lens surveys.- Properties of lensing galaxies in the CLASS survey.- Constraining the value of the cosmological constant using JVAS/CLASS lensing Statistics.
