Early Evolution of the Universe and its Present Structure

1. Near Infrared and Radio Observations of Distant Galaxies

   • R. A. Laing, F. N. Owen, J. J. Puschell

   Pages 85-86

2. Studies of Faint Field Galaxies

   • Richard S. Ellis

   Pages 87-91

3. JF Photometry of Fourteen Distant Rich Clusters of Galaxies

   • W. J. Couch, E. B. Newell

   Pages 93-93

4. Color Distribution of Faint Galaxies and Quasi-Stellar Objects

   • Richard G. Kron

   Pages 95-99

5. Spectroscopy of Distant Galaxies in Clusters

   • Alan Dressler

   Pages 101-103

6. A Redshift Survey of Very Faint (B ≤ 22.5) Field Galaxies, Radio Sources, and Quasars

   • David C. Koo

   Pages 105-106

7. Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies in Moderate Redshift Clusters

   • W. J. Couch, R. S. Ellis, J. Godwin, D. Carter

   Pages 107-107

8. Distortion of the Microwave Background by Dust from Population III

   • Michael Rowan-Robinson

   Pages 109-112

9. Was the Big Bang Hot?

   • Edward L. Wright

   Pages 113-118

10. On Population III Star Formation

    • A. Kashlinsky, M. J. Rees

    Pages 119-120

11. Search for Small Scale Anisotropy of the 3K Emission of the Universe

    • A. B. Berlin, E. V. Bulaenko, V. V. Vitkovsky, V. K. Kononov, Yu. N. Parijskij, Z. E. Petrov

    Pages 121-124

12. New Limits to the Small Scale Fluctuations in the Cosmic Background Radiation

    • K. I. Kellermann, E. B. Fomalont, J. V. Wall

    Pages 125-126

13. 10 to 60 Arcmin Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background

    • A. N. Lasenby, R. D. Davies

    Pages 127-129

14. Deep Radio Source Counts and Small Scale Fluctuations of the Microwave Background Radiation

    • L. Danese, G. De Zotti, N. Mandolesi

    Pages 131-133

15. Measurement of the 3 K Cosmic Background Noise in the Far Infrared

    • G. Dall’Oglio, P. de Bernardis, S. Masi, F. Melchiorri

    Pages 135-138

16. On the Large-Scale Anisotropy of the Cosmic Background Radiation in the Far Infrared

    • P. Boynton, C. Ceccarelli, P. de Bernardis, S. Masi, B. Melchiorri, F. Melchiorri et al.

    Pages 139-141

17. Large-Scale Anisotropy at Centimeter Wavelengths

    • David T. Wilkinson

    Pages 143-148

18. Large-Scale Anisotropy of the Cosmic Relic Radiation in Spatially Open Cosmological Models

    • V. N. Lukash

    Pages 149-152

19. Comments and Summary on the Cosmic Background Radiation

    • George F. Smoot

    Pages 153-158

20. Redshifts and Large Scale Structures

    • G. Chincarini

    Pages 159-165

Since the last International Astronomical Union Symposium that dealt with matters cosmological, there have been dramatic advances, both on the observational and theoretical fronts. Modern high-efficiency detectors have made possible extensive magnitude-limited redshift surveys, which have permitted observational cosmologists to construct three-dimensional maps of large regions of space. What seems to emerge is a distribution of matter in extensive, flat, but probably filamentary, and possibly interconnected, superclusters, serving as interstices between vast voids in space. Meanwhile, theoretical ideas that were highly speculative a few years ago have begun to be taken seriously as possibly describing conditions in the very early universe. And brand new ideas, such as that of the inflationary universe, hold promise of solving outstanding observational, theoretical, and philosophical problems in cosmology. A new look at grand unified theories and concepts of supersymmetry have brought observational and theoretical cosmologists to a common meeting ground with modern particle physicists.

• Big Bang
• Cosmology
• Gravity
• Universe
• astronomy

• University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  G. O. Abell

• University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

  G. Chincarini

• European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, Germany

  G. Chincarini

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