Cold Gas at High Redshift: Proceedings of a Workshop Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, held in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands, August 28–30, 1995

M.N. Bremer, P.P. van der Werf, H.J.A. Röttgering, C.L. Carilli

Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012 - Science - 468 pages

Recent years have seen increasing evidence that the main epoch of galaxy formation in the universe may be directly accessible to observation. An gular fluctuations in the background relict radiation have been detected by various ground-based instruments as well as by the COBE satellite, and suggest that the epoch of galaxy formation was not so very early. Combined optical and radio studies have found galaxies at redshifts above 2. 0, systems that at least superficially show the characteristics expected of large galaxies seen only shortly after their formation. And absorption lines in the spectra of quasars seem to be telling us that most cold gas at early to intermediate cosmological epochs was in clouds having roughly galaxy sized masses. What kinds of new observations will best help us study this high redshift universe in future? What new instruments will be needed? These are questions that loom large in the minds of the Dutch astronom ical community as we celebrate 25 years of operation of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. Celebration of this Silver Jubilee has included a birthday party (on 23 June, 1995), a commemorative volume looking at both the history and the future of the facility ("The Westerbork Observa tory, Continuing Adventure in Radio Astronomy," Kluwer 1996), and an international workshop, held in the village of Hoogeveen on 28-30 August, 1995.

Contents

• CO in Ultraluminous and High z Galaxies 25: 23
• Dissipation in Forming Spheroidal: 37
• The Neutral Hydrogen Distribution in Luminous Infrared Galaxies 47: 46
• Molecular Gas and Dust in Infrared Luminous Galaxies: 55
• ELAIS: 77
• Hints to Galaxy Evolution: 85
• Small Scale Structure and High Redshift HI 93: 92
• H Weinberg L Hernquist N S Katz and J MiraldaEscudé: 109
• On the Distribution of Intergalactic Clouds: 115
• Disk Galaxies at z 0 and at High Redshift: 121
• Warm Gas at High Redshift Clues to Gravitational Structure: 137
• HI Imaging of Clusters 145: 144
• An HI Survey of the Boötes Void: 159
• An HI Study of Ursa Major Spirals Dark Matter in Spirals: 165
• HI at High Redshift: 171
• ButcherOemler Effect and Radio Continuum 183: 182
• Warm Molecular Gas in AGNs and Cooling Flows: 195
• Xray Observations of Cold Gas in Clusters: 205
• Absorption Measurements of Molecular Gas: 215
• A New Molecular Absorption Line System The Gravitational: 227
• Deep HST Imaging of a Damped Lyman a Absorbing Galaxy: 233
• Associated Xray Absorption in High Redshift Quasars: 239
• Opacity of Singly Ionized Helium from Very Tenuous Intergalactic: 245
• S Womble W L W Sargent and R S Lyons: 254
• cm Line Observations of Damped Lya Systems 267: 279
• Testing z 0 Analogs for the Damped Lyman a Absorbers: 285
• Molecular Gas in High Redshift Galaxies: 293
• and Possibly HCN in the Cloverleaf Quasar: 301
• Thermal Emission from Dust in Highz Galaxies 311: 310
• Submillimetre Observations of QSOs at Redshifts z 4: 325
• Radiative Transfer Models for IRAS F10214+4724 and other: 337
• a Hidden AGN?: 343
• Gas and Dust in high z radio galaxies: 349
• Kinematics and HI Absorption in Lyo Halos around z 2 Radio: 363
• The Effect of a Surrounding Cooling Flow on a Powerful Radio: 373
• N Bremer A C Fabian and C S Crawford: 379
• Dust and Obscuration: 391
• Radio Galaxies: 397
• HST Observations of Radio Galaxies at z 1: 403
• Studies of Cold Gas in the Early Universe with Large Millimeter: 411
• Strategies for Galaxy Surveys in the Submillimetre Waveband: 423
• Future Possibilities for Detecting HI at High Redshift: 437
• SPH Simulations of the Early Universe Performance of the Dwinge: 451
• Index: 463

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cold Gas at High Redshift: Proceedings of a Workshop Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, held in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands, August 28–30, 1995; Volume 206 of Astrophysics and Space Science Library
• Editors: M.N. Bremer, P.P. van der Werf, H.J.A. Röttgering, C.L. Carilli
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2012
• ISBN: 9400917260, 9789400917262
• Length: 468 pages
• Subjects: Science / Physics / Astrophysics; Science / Space Science / Astronomy