Observational Cosmology: With the New Radio Surveys Proceedings of a Workshop held in a Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 13–15 January 1997

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Radio Astronomy and Cosmology....Pages 3-10
The High Redshift 3CR Radio Galaxies: CD Galaxies in High Redshift Clusters....Pages 11-16
HST Imaging of 3CR Radio Galaxies: The Dust-Radio Connection....Pages 17-22
The Warm Gas in High Redshift Radio Galaxies....Pages 23-28
“Dissecting” 3C Radio Galaxies At Redshift ∼1....Pages 29-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
The Nrao VLA Sky Survey: Lessons Applied....Pages 37-44
NVSS Observations of UGC Galaxies....Pages 45-50
1.4-GHz Luminosity Function of Galaxies from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey....Pages 51-52
Radio-Optical Orientation of E/S0 Galaxies....Pages 53-54
A Wider View from the South....Pages 55-61
The Cambridge Low Frequency Radio Surveys: 6C, 7C, 8C....Pages 63-66
Current Status of Radio Source Databases....Pages 67-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Imaging the Cosmic Microwave Background....Pages 71-76
The Cat: Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies and Sources at 15 GHz....Pages 77-82
The Sunyaev-Zel’Dovich Effect And Hubble’s Constant....Pages 83-88
A High-Redshift Cluster Detected Via Its S-Z Effect....Pages 89-94
The S-Z Effect at High Redshift....Pages 95-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
X-Ray Detections of Distant Radio Galaxies....Pages 99-106
Searching for First Radio ARCS Near ACO Clusters....Pages 107-112
Clusters of Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey....Pages 113-118
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Connection between Radio Halos and Rich Clusters: The Case of A3667 and a Search for Distant Radio Halos....Pages 119-122
The Radio Galaxy 1138-262 at Z=2.2: A Forming Cd Galaxy at the Center of a Cluster?....Pages 123-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Cosmological Inference from New Radio Surveys....Pages 129-136
Probing Density Fluctuations Using the First Radio Survey....Pages 137-142
The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey: Current Status of the Survey and the Study of Large Scale Structure....Pages 143-148
Large-Scale Structure from Radio Surveys....Pages 149-152
Calibration Issues in the Search for Large-Scale Anisotropies in the 87 Green Bank and Parkes-Mit-Nrao Surveys....Pages 153-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Cosmic Star-Formation History, as Traced by Radio Source Evolution....Pages 157-164
Spectroscopy of USS Radio Sources from the Wenss Mini-Survey: A Redshift Cutoff for Steep-Spectrum Radio Sources....Pages 165-170
Cosmology with Redshift Surveys of Radio Sources....Pages 171-178
The Evolution of Radio Sources from Complete Samples....Pages 179-184
Searches for High Redshift Radio Galaxies....Pages 185-190
Observed Redshift Distributions and Cosmological Evolution of Radio Sources....Pages 191-194
Radio Loud Quasars at High Redshift....Pages 195-202
Declining Quasar Fractions as Evidence for Unified Schemes....Pages 203-208
A Complete Sample of Quasars From the 7C Redshift Survey....Pages 209-214
The Luminosity-Size Evolution of FRII Sources....Pages 215-220
The Angular Size-Redshift Test for Compact Radio Sources in the Caltech-Jodrell Bank Surveys....Pages 221-226
VLBI Surveys as a Tool for Cosmological Tests....Pages 227-232
The Cosmic Evolution of Giant Radiosources....Pages 233-238
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
A New Sample of z > 0.3 Giant Radio Galaxies from the Wenss and the First Surveys....Pages 239-240
Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum Sources as Cosmological Probes....Pages 241-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
The Angular Size Distribution of 4741 Radio Sources in the MIT-VLA Snapshot Archive....Pages 249-254
Radio Spectra and NVSS Maps of Decametric Sources....Pages 255-256
Spectral Analysis of the B3 VLA Survey....Pages 257-258
Using New Submillimetre Surveys to Identify the Evolutionary Status of High-Z Galaxies....Pages 259-264
A Deep VLA Survey of the ISO Survey Regions....Pages 265-266
IR Imaging of Distant WENSS Sources....Pages 267-271
The Optical Identification of Faint Microwave Sources....Pages 273-278
Observations of Quasar Host Galaxies....Pages 279-284
Molonglo Quasars: Reddening and Torus Geometry....Pages 285-289
Red Quasars: Not so Dusty....Pages 291-296
Radio and Optical Properties of a Faint Radio Galaxy Sample....Pages 297-302
Radio to X-Ray Properties of AGN....Pages 303-308
The Cross-Correlation of the Rosat All-Sky Survey and the 87Gb Radio Catalog: X-Ray Properties of Radio-Loud Quasars....Pages 309-314
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
Cosmological Implications of Gravitational Lens Surveys....Pages 317-322
The JVAS/Class Gravitational Lens Surveys....Pages 323-332
Properties of Lensing Galaxies in the Class Survey....Pages 333-338
Constraining the Value of the Cosmological Constant Using JVAS/Class Lensing Statistics....Pages 339-340
Back Matter....Pages 341-345