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

348 Pages·1998·19.387 MB·English

by  Malcolm S. Longair (auth.), M. N. Bremer, N. Jackson, I. Pérez-Fournon (eds.)

OBSERV AT IONAL COSMOLOGY
ASTROPHYSICS AND
SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY
VOLUME 226
Executive Committee
W. B. BURTON, Sterrewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands
J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
E. P. 1. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University ofA msterdam,
The Netherlands
H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Editorial Board
I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Konigstuhl, Germany
1. N. BAH CALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A.
F. BERTOLA, Universita di Padova, Italy
W. B. BURTON, Sterrewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands
1. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.
C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d' Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
O. ENGVOLD,Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
1. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JlLA, Boulder, U.S.A.
P. G. MURDIN, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, U.K.
F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia
R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan
S. TREMAINE, CITA, University of Toronto, Canada
E. P. 1. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands
N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
OBSERVATIONAL
COSMOLOGY
WITH THE NEW RADIO SURVEYS
Proceedings of a Workshop
held in Puerto de la Cruz,
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain,
13-15 January 1997
Edited by
M.N.BREMER
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
and Leiden Observatory,
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
N.JACKSON
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories,
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
and
I. PEREZ-FOURNON
Astrophysics Department,
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
and Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias,
La Laguna, Spain
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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CONTENTS
Preface ............................... . .... xi
Section 1: Introduction and New Results from Old Sur
veys
Radio astronomy and cosmology: lessons from the past -3C, 4C,.... 3
Malcolm Longair
The high redshift 3CR radio galaxies: cD galaxies in high redshift clusters 11
P.N. Best, M.S. Longair, H.J.A. R6ttgering
HST snapshot imaging of 3C sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . 17 .
Sigrid de Koff et al.
The warm gas in high red shift radio galaxies: new results on the alignment
effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . 23 . . . .
Mark J. Neeser, Hans Hippelein f3 Klaus Meisenheimer
"Dissecting" 3C radio galaxies at red shift '" 1 29
A. Cimatti f3 S. di Serego alighieri
Section 2: Surveys Beyond 3C
The NRAO VLA sky survey: lessons applied 37
J.I. Condon et al.
NVSS observations of UGC galaxies ..... 45
WD. Cotton f3 I.I. Condon
1.4-GHz luminosity function of galaxies from the Las Campanas redshift
survey ............................ . 51
I. M achalski f9 W Godolski
Radio-optical orientation of E/SO galaxies: APM versus FIRST 53
E.A. Stengler-Larrea f9 H. Andernach
A wider view from the south ............... . 55
R. W Hunstead et al.
The Cambridge low frequency radio surveys: 6C, 7C, 8C . 63
E.M. Waldram
Current status of radio source databases . . . . . . . . . . 67
vi
H. A ndernach fj S. Trushkin
Section 3: The Cosmic Microwave Background and the
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
Imaging the cosmic microwave background 71
Richard Saunders
The CAT: cosmic microwave background anisotropies and sources at 15
GHz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.7 . . . . .
Joanne C. Baker
The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and Hubble's constant. 83
Keith Grainge
A high-red shift cluster detected via its S-Z effect 89
Michael E. Jones
The S-Z effect at high redshift 95
E. A. Richards
Section 4: Clusters of Galaxies
X-ray Detections of distant radio galaxies 99
C.S. Crawford
Searching for FIRST radio arcs near ACO clusters 107
H. Andernach, A.G. Gubanov fj O.B. Slee
Clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshifts from the VLA sky survey. 113
A. Zanichelli et al.
The connection between radio halos and rich clusters . . . . . . . . ... 119
H.J.A. Rottgering et al.
The raiio galaxy 1138-262 at z=2.2: a forming cD galaxy at the centre
of a cluster? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2. 3. . . . .
Laura Pentericci fj Huub Rottgering
Section 5: Large-Scale Structure
Cosmological inference from new radio surveys 129
J. V. Wall
Probing density fluctuations using the FIRST radio survey 137
C. M. Cress et al.
vii
The Westerbork Northern Sky survey: current status of the survey and
the study of Large Scale Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .1 4.3
Roeland Rengelink et al.
Large-scale structure from radio surveys 149
C.R. Benn
Calibration issues in the search for large-scale anisotropies in the 87 Green
Bank and Parkes-MIT-NRAO surveys . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . 153
F. Crawford et al.
Section 6: Radio Source Evolution
Cosmic star-formation & radio source evolution 157
J.S. Dunlop
Spectroscopy of USS sources from the WENSS mini-survey: Evidence for
a redshift cutoff for steep-spectrum radio sources . . . . . . . . .. 165
M.N. Bremer et al.
Cosmology with redshift surveys of radio sources . . . 171
Steve Rawlings et al.
The evolution of radio sources from complete samples . . . . . . 179
Katherine Blundell, Steve Rawlings, Chris Willott fj Mark Lacy
Searching for the most distant radio galaxies .... . ...... 185
Carlos de Breuck et al.
Observed redshift distributions and cosmological evolution of radio sources 191
J. Machalski fj M Jamrozy
Radio loud quasars at high redshift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
R.G. McMahon
Declining quasar fractions as evidence for unified schemes 203
C.A. Jackson fj J. V. Wall
A complete sample of quasars from the 7C redshift survey 209
Chris J. Willott et al.
The luminosity-size evolution of FRII sources . . . . . . . 215
C.R. Kaiser, P. Alexander fj J. Dennett-Thorpe
The angular size-red shift test for compact radio sources in the Caltech-
Jodrell Bank surveys. ......................... 221
P.N. Wilkinson et al.
VLBI Surveys as a Tool for Cosmological Tests 227
L.I. Gurvits, J. Roland fj K. Demyk
The cosmic evolution of giant radiosources. . . 233
Vlll
Garret Cotter
A new sample of z > 0.3 giant radio galaxies from the WENSS and the
FIRST surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .2 3. 9 .
A. P. Schoenmakers et al.
Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum sources as cosmological probes 241
Ignas Snellen et al.
Section 7: Multiwavelength Studies of Distant Radio Sources
The angular size distribution of 4741 radio sources in the MIT /VLA
snapshot archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 249
A. Fletcher et al.
Radio spectra and NVSS maps of decametric sources . 255
O. Verkhodanov et al.
Spectral analysis of the B3 VLA survey . . . . . . . . 257
K. -H. Mack et al.
Using new submillimetre surveys to identify the evolutionary status of
high-z galaxies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . 25.9 . . .
David Hughes f3 James Dunlop
A deep VLA survey of the ISO survey regions . 265
P. Ciliegi, R.G. McMahon, G. Miley and BLAIS
IR imaging of distant WENSS sources . . . . . . 267
D. Villani f3 S. Di Serego Alighieri
The optical identification of faint microwave sources 273
E.A. Richards
Observations of quasar host galaxies .. .... . 279
Matthew D. Lehnert
Molonblo quasars: reddening and torus geometry 285
Joanne C. Baker
Red quasars: not so dusty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
C.R. Benn et al.
Radio and optical properties of a faint radio galaxy sample 297
C. Gruppioni, M. Mignoli f3 G. Zamorani
Radio to X-Ray properties of AGN .. 303
W. Brinkmann f3 J. Siebert
X-ray properties of radio-loud quasars 309
J.Siebert f3 W. Brinkmann
ix
Section 8: Gravitational Lensing
Cosmological implications of gravitational lens surveys 317
Joachi~ VVa~bsganss
Results from the JVAS/CLASS lens surveys .... 323
Ian Browne
Properties of lensing galaxies in the CLASS survey 333
Neal Jackson, Sunita Nair and Ian Browne
Constraining the value of the cosmological constant using JVAS/CLASS
lensing Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . 3. 3.9 . .
D.R. Marlow et al.
Index 341