Mining the Sky: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, July 31 - August 4, 2000

Introduction to Mining the Sky: Mining 101....Pages 3-14
Regularization and Inverse Problems....Pages 15-32
Compression and Classification Methods for Galaxy Spectra in Large Redshift Surveys....Pages 33-52
A General Construction Principle of Wavelets....Pages 53-70
Fast Algorithms and Efficient Statistics: N-Point Correlation Functions....Pages 71-82
Numerical Observations of Simulated Universes: Progress and Challenges....Pages 83-98
Large Databases in Astronomy....Pages 99-116
Mining the Sky with Redshift Surveys....Pages 119-135
Clusters of Galaxies in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey....Pages 136-142
The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - 10K@2K!....Pages 143-153
Mining the Local Universe: the QSO Space Density....Pages 154-159
The Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey....Pages 160-167
Large-Scale Distribution and Spectral Properties of Galaxies in the Shapley Concentration....Pages 168-170
The Construction of X-ray Cluster Surveys and Their Spatial Analysis....Pages 171-181
XCS: A Serendipitous Galaxy Cluster Survey with XMM-Newton....Pages 182-184
The XMM/Megacam-VST/VIRMOS Large-Scale Structure Survey....Pages 185-191
ROSAT’s All-Sky X-Ray View....Pages 192-200
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)....Pages 201-204
Strong Constraints on Cosmology from Galaxy Clusters....Pages 205-207
Relating Galaxy Cluster X-Ray Luminosities to Gravitational Masses in Wide-Angle Surveys....Pages 208-210
Field Galaxy Evolution from the Munich Near-Infrared Cluster Survey (MUNICS)....Pages 211-213
Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy of Damped Lyman- $\alpha$ Systems....Pages 214-217
Simulation of the GAIA Mission Using Java and UML....Pages 218-220
The Large-Scale Structure: Bayesian Analysis and Beyond....Pages 223-235
Nonlinear Peculiar-Velocity Analysis and PCA....Pages 236-248
Estimation of Correlations in Large Samples....Pages 249-255
Clustering of X-Ray Selected AGN....Pages 256-258
Mark Correlations....Pages 259-261
FORCE: FORtran for Cosmic Errors....Pages 262-267
Tessellation Reconstruction Techniques....Pages 268-275
The Hierarchy of Minkowski Valuations and the Morphometry of Cosmic Structure....Pages 276-282
Analysis of Large-Scale Matter Distribution with the Minimal Spanning Tree Technique....Pages 283-285
Scaling of the Void Size Distribution in the LCRS and CDM Models....Pages 286-288
Non-Linearity and Non-Gaussianity Through Phase Information....Pages 289-295
Models with a Step-Like Initial Power Spectrum....Pages 296-298
The Violent Environment of the Shapley Concentration: a Multiwavelength View....Pages 299-301
Exploration of Large Digital Sky Surveys....Pages 305-322
Automated Classification Techniques for Large Spectroscopic Surveys....Pages 323-330
Parameterisation of Galaxy Spectra in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey....Pages 331-336
Classification and Redshift Estimation in Multi-Color Surveys....Pages 337-343
Mining 2D Images: Automatic Morphological Classification of Galaxies....Pages 344-346
UPCA: Extension of PCA Analysis of Galaxy Spectra to Unfluxed Data....Pages 347-349
NIR Visibility Function of Emission Lines with the Galileo OH Subtracted Spectrograph....Pages 350-352
Mining Pixels: The Extraction and Classification of Astronomical Sources....Pages 353-371
Mining the Digital Hamburg/ESO Objective-Prism Survey....Pages 372-378
NExt (Neural Extractor): a New Automated Tool for Extracting Catalogues from Astronomical Images....Pages 379-385
Neural Networks for Spectral Analysis of Unevenly Sampled Data....Pages 386-390
Classification of the White Dwarf Populations Using Neural Networks....Pages 391-393
Automatic Technique for Spectral Analysis....Pages 394-396
Source Identification Through Decision Trees....Pages 397-399
Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis with MADCAP....Pages 403-413
Maps of the CMB Temperature Anisotropy: from the Time-Ordered Data to the Maximum-Likelihood Solution....Pages 414-420
Noise Estimation in CMB Time-Streams and Fast Iterative Map-Making....Pages 421-427
CMB Data Analysis: the Map-Making Problem....Pages 428-431
How to Make CMB Maps from Huge Timelines with Small Computers....Pages 432-434
Advanced Methods for CMB Data Analysis: the Big N 3 and How to Beat It....Pages 435-446
Data Analysis for the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) Mission....Pages 447-457
Analysis of CMB Foregrounds Using a Database for Planck....Pages 458-464
Reconstructing the Microwave Sky Using a Combined Maximum-Entropy and Mexican Hat Wavelet Analysis....Pages 465-472
Measuring Bulk Flows with the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect in CMB Maps....Pages 473-475
Planck Activities at MPA....Pages 476-478
Massive Variability Searches: the Past, Present and Future....Pages 481-486
Mining Gamma-Ray Burst Data....Pages 487-493
Mining the Blazar Sky....Pages 494-500
The BMW (Brera-Multiscale-Wavelet) Catalogue of Serendipitous X-Ray Sources....Pages 501-507
Variable Sources in the RASS: Bayesian Change Point Detection Approach....Pages 508-510
Mining Plate Archives for Stellar Long-Term Variability....Pages 511-517
Public Imaging Surveys: Survey Systems and Scientific Opportunities....Pages 521-539
Terapixel Surveys for Cosmic Shear....Pages 540-550
Simulation of Wide-Field Lensing Surveys....Pages 551-553
The TERAPIX Tool for the Reduction of Wide-Field Images....Pages 554-556
Automated Search of LSB Galaxies in DPOSS (CRoNaRio Project): Method and First Results from Follow-Ups....Pages 557-563
The Data Flow in the Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey....Pages 564-570
Blind Source Separation of Multispectral Astronomical Images....Pages 571-581
Detecting SZ Clusters Using Pixons....Pages 582-588
Mining the Thermal SZ Effect with a Speedy Pixon Algorithm....Pages 589-591
Mapping the Gould Belt Velocity Field by Kriging Techniques....Pages 592-594
Fast Hough Transform for Robust Detection of Satellite Tracks....Pages 595-597
Surveys with the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope....Pages 598-600
Archive/Information Service Interoperability: Bringing the Virtual Sky into Focus....Pages 603-612
SDSS-RASS: Next Generation of Cluster-Finding Algorithms....Pages 613-623
Case Study of Handling Scientific Queries on Very Large Datasets: The SDSS Science Archive....Pages 624-630
The Hierarchical Triangular Mesh....Pages 631-637
Splitting the Sky - HTM and HEALPix....Pages 638-648
Some Possible Identifications of ROSAT Sources with Historical SN Events....Pages 649-655
Extracting Knowledge from Very Large Datasets in a Multi-Wavelength Context....Pages 656-663
Data Mining Across Heterogeneous Data....Pages 664-670
Data Mining in Astronomical Databases....Pages 671-673
Mining the Sky with the CDS Services....Pages 674-676
Mining the CDS Collection: A Learning Experience....Pages 677-679
Mining the Optical/Ultraviolet Sky with the Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (MAST)....Pages 680-682
HYPERLEDA: a Tool for Studying Galaxies....Pages 683-685
OPTICON and the Virtual Observatory....Pages 689-696