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

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 α Survey of the Galactic Plane....Pages 179-181
An Imaging Survey of the Galactic H-Alpha Emission with Arcminute Resolution....Pages 182-183
Interstellar Cirrus Observed in Balmer H α ....Pages 184-185
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Marseille Observatory H α Survey: Comparisons with CO, 6 CM and Iras Data....Pages 186-188
A Large-Scale CO Imaging of the Galactic Center....Pages 189-190
Survey of Correlated FIR, HI, CO, and Radio-Continuum Emission Features in the Multi-Phase Milky Way....Pages 191-193
Survey of Fine-Scale Structure in the Far-Infrared Milky Way....Pages 194-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way....Pages 199-208
Kinematics and the Galactic Potential....Pages 209-216
Using Multi-Wavelength All Sky Information to Understand Large Scale Galactic Structure....Pages 217-220
Structure and Kinematical Properties of the Galaxy at Intermediate Galactic Latitudes....Pages 221-222
Proper Motions in the Bulge: Looking Through Plaut’s Low Extinction Window....Pages 223-224
Galactic Structure with the APS Catalog of the Poss I....Pages 225-227
Galactic Structure with GSC-II Material....Pages 228-230
Investigation of Galactic Structure with Denis Star Counts....Pages 231-233
Starcounts in the Hubble Deep Field: Fewer than Expected, More than Expected....Pages 234-236
Multiwavelength Milky Way: An Educational Poster....Pages 237-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Weak Gravitational Lensing—The Need for Surveys....Pages 241-248
The Evolution of Quasars and Their Clustering....Pages 249-256
Towards a Better Understanding of Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 257-265
Measures of Galactic and Intergalactic Mass in Clusters....Pages 266-267
The Scaling Relations for Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 268-269
The Radio Properties of X-Ray Selected Extragalactic Objects....Pages 270-272
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Uncovering Ultra-Luminous Galaxies in the IRAS FSC Through Radio and Optical Cross-Identification....Pages 273-274
Early Results from an HST Imaging Survey of the Ultraluminous IR Galaxies....Pages 275-277
The K-Band Luminosity Function of Galaxies....Pages 278-280
The K-Band Wide Field Survey: Understanding the Local Galaxies....Pages 281-284
Multi-Color Surface Photometry of Nearby Galaxies....Pages 285-286
Muti-Color Imaging of Clusters of Galaxies with Mosaic CCD Cameras....Pages 287-290
QSO Color Selection in the SDSS....Pages 291-292
The Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey....Pages 293-295
The Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey: First Results....Pages 296-298
Hamburg/SAO Survey of Emission-Line Galaxies....Pages 299-301
Kiss: A New Digital Survey for Emission-Line Objects....Pages 302-304
How to Find BL Lac Objects in the Rass....Pages 305-307
The Warps X-Ray Survey of Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters....Pages 308-309
The Warps Blazar Survey....Pages 310-311
Results from ASCA Sky Surveys....Pages 312-313
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
Large Scale Structure of the Universe....Pages 317-328
Large Scale Structure in the Ly α Forest....Pages 329-331
A Search for Large Voids from Combined Samples of Galaxy Clusters and Galaxies....Pages 332-334
Low Luminosity Galaxy Distribution in Low Density Regions....Pages 335-336
Clustering Properties of Faint Blue Galaxies....Pages 337-338
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
The K-Band Hubble Diagram for X-Ray Selected Brightest Cluster Galaxies....Pages 339-341
Multiwavelength Study of the Shapley Concentration....Pages 342-343
A Rich Cluster Redshift Survey for Large-Scale Structure Studies....Pages 344-345
The Eso Slice Project (ESP) Redshift Survey....Pages 346-347
Input Catalogue for the 2df QSO Redshift Survey....Pages 348-350
Redshift Survey of 951 IRAS Galaxies in the Southern Milky Way....Pages 351-352
A Deep 20 CM Radio Mosaic of the ESP Galaxy Redshift Survey....Pages 353-355
Radio Emission from High Redshift Galaxies: VLA Observations of the Hubble Deep Field....Pages 356-357
Exposing New Components of the X-Ray Background with Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys....Pages 358-359
Front Matter....Pages 361-361
Statistical Methodology for Large Astronomical Surveys....Pages 363-370
Digital Colour Mapping of the Sky from Supercosmos....Pages 371-373
Colour Equations For Techpan Films....Pages 374-375
An Objective Approach to Spectral Classification....Pages 376-378
GSPC-II: A Catalog of Photometric Calibrators for the Second Generation Guide Star Catalog....Pages 379-380
Techniques for Schmidt Plate Reductions with Application to GSC1.2....Pages 381-383
Wading Through the Quagmire of Schmidt-Plate Coordinate Systematics....Pages 384-385
Progress in Wide Field CCD Astrometry....Pages 386-388
Linking the Radio and Optical Frames with Merlin....Pages 389-391
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Overview of the Tycho Catalogue....Pages 395-398
Main Properties of the Hipparcos Catalogue....Pages 399-405
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
The Astrographic Catalogue....Pages 406-408
Completion of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute Astrographic Catalogue Project....Pages 409-414
Salvaging an Astrometric Treasure....Pages 415-417
A New High Density, High Precision Astrometric Catalog....Pages 418-419
Contents, Test Results, and Data Availability for GSC 1.2....Pages 420-421
The 488,006,860 Sources in the USNO-A1.0 Catalog....Pages 422-423
Cataloging of the Digitized POSS-II: Initial Scientific Results....Pages 424-430
The Second Guide Star Catalogue....Pages 431-432
The Rosat All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog....Pages 433-434
Front Matter....Pages 435-435
Cross Wavelength Comparison of Images and Catalogs....Pages 437-443
The Hamburg Identification Program of Rosat All-Sky Survey Sources....Pages 444-446
Cross-Correlation of Large Scale Surveys: Radio-Loud Objects in the Rosat All Sky Survey....Pages 447-448
Identification of a Complete Sample of Northern Rosat All-Sky Survey X-Ray Sources....Pages 449-449
The OPTID Database: Deep Optical Identifications to the IRAS Faint Source Survey....Pages 450-451
Front Matter....Pages 453-453
Exploring Terabyte Archives in Astronomy....Pages 455-461
The Wide-Field Plate Database: A New Tool in Observational Astronomy....Pages 462-464
Skyview: The Multi-Wavelength Sky on the Interne....Pages 465-466
A WWW Database of APS POSS Images....Pages 467-468
The Aladin Interactive Sky Atlas....Pages 469-470
The SDSS Science Archive....Pages 471-473
Front Matter....Pages 453-453
The GSC-I and GSC-II Databases: An Object-Oriented Approach....Pages 474-477
Surveys in the ADC Archive....Pages 478-479
Global Network Access and Publication of Survey Data....Pages 480-486
Front Matter....Pages 487-487
The Nature and Significance of Surveys....Pages 489-492
Summary Talk: Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys....Pages 493-499
Back Matter....Pages 500-508