AUTHOR INDEX

Andreani, P. 405-409 Argue, N. 271-279

Barbieri, C. 405-409 Baruch, J.E.F. 153-166 Beard, S. 133-139 Bhatia, R.K. 361-365 Bienayme, O. 177-183 Blanchard, A. 41-42 Bowell, E. 237-244 Boyle, B.J. 411-416 Boyle, R.D. 153-166 Broadbent, A. 389-395 Broadhurst, T.J. 397-404 Brosch, N. 61-64 Bucciarelli, B. 61-64, 185-191 Burg, R. 465-469 Bus, S.J. 237-244

Campusano, L.E. 425-428 Cannon, R.D. 11-22, 411-416, 499-

508 Chen, J .-S. 35-39 Clowes, R.G. 405-409, 425-428 Collins, C.A. 67-76, 335-344, 345-351,

353-359, 389-395 Conrow, T. 471-483 Cormack, W. 133-139 Cristiani, S. 405-409, 411-416 Crolla, A.J. 153-166 Cruddace, R.G. 67-76, 345-351, 353-

359

Dalton, G.B. 313-321 Daou, D. 185-191 Davies, J. 295-298 de Cuyper, J.-P. 193-198 Deul, E.R. 109-114 de Vegt, ChI'. 115-121, 123-131 Dodd, R.J. 231-233 Doi, M. 199-208

Efstathiou, G. 313-321

509

Ellis, R.S. 397-404 Elvis, M. 441-451 Epchtein, N. 41-42

Fabbiano, G. 441-451 Fong, R. 323-334, 389-395 Fukugita, M. 199-208

Gardiner, L.T. 281-289 Gemmo, A. 405-409 Goldschmidt, C. 405-409,411-416 Goldsmith, C. 291-294 Gouiffes, G. 405-409 Griffiths, W.K. 411-416 Guibert, J. 103-108 Gursky, H. 67-76, 345-351, 353-359 Guzzo, L. 335-344

Hale-Sutton, D. 323-334, 389-395 Hambly, N.C. 265-270 Hartley, M. 11-22, 23-33 Hatzidimitriou, D. 281-289 Hau, G. 471-483 Hawkins, M.R.S. 147-150, 281-289 Hensberge, H. 193-198 Hickson, P. 361-365 Huchra, J. 441-451 Humphreys, R.M. 77-85, 215-224

Iovino, A. 361-365,405-409 Irwin, M.J. 43-52, 271-279, 417-

424 Iwashita, H. 199-208

Kashikawa, N. 199-208 Koo, D.C. 397-404

La Franca, F. 405-409, 411-416 Laidler, V.G. 95-101 Lasker, B.M. 87-94, 95-101 Lattanzi, M.G. 167-175, 185-191 Lawrence, L. 133-139 Lazzarin, M. 405-409 Legget, S. 231-233

510

Lilly, S.J. 411-416 Liu, Z. 193-198 Lonsdale, C.J. 471-483 Lopez, C. 61-64 Lumsden, S. 335-344

MacGillivray, H.T. 67-76, 345-351, 353-359,361-365,389-395,405-409,471-483,491-495

Maddox, S.J. 53-60, 313-321 Malin, D.F. 23-33 McLean, B.J. 465-469 McMahon, R.G. 417-424 Miller, L. 133-139,405-409,411-416 Mitchell, P.S. 411-416 Moniez, M. 255-264 Morgan, D.H. 11-22 Murdin, P.G. 1-2

Nichol, R.C. 335-344, 389-395 Norton, A. 431-440

Oates, A.P. 389-395 Odewahn, S.C. 77-85, 215-224 Okamura, S. 199-208

Palumbo, G. 361-365 Parker, Q.A. 23-33, 383-387, 389-

395 Paterson, M. 133-139,141-145 Pennington, R.L. 77-85, 215-224 Phillipps, S. 295-298, 299-304 Picard, A. 225-230 Plummer, D. 441-451 Postman, M. 61-64,95-101,167-175 Prandoni, I. 361-365 Prestage, R.M. 411-416

Raychaudhury, S. 305-311 Reddish, V.C. 3-8 ReImer, D. 61-64 Roche, P. 431-440 Russell, K.S. 23-33, 237-244

Sanvico, M. 405-409 Savage, A. 11-22, 23-33, 405-409, 485-

489

A uthor Index

Schachter, J.F. 441-451 Scholz, R.D. 271-279 Sekiguchi, M. 199-208 Seitter, W.C. 367-381 Shanks, T. 323-334, 389-395 Shara, M. 61-64 Skiff, B. 237-244 Siciliano, L. 61-64 Spiekermann, G. 209-213 Soubiran, C. 177-183 Steinbach, M. 123-131 Sterken, C. 193-198 Stobie, R.S. 411-416 Stockwell, E.B. 77-85, 215-224 Stuart, B.V. 67-76,345-351,353-359 Sturch, C. 61-64 Sutherland, W.J. 53-60, 313-321 Szalay, A.S. 397-404

Taff, L.G. 185-191 Tarusawa, K. 199-208 Tritton, S.B. 11-22

Vio, R. 405-409 Voges, W. 453-463

Wallin, J.F. 67-76, 471-483 Watson, F.G. 389-395 Weir, N. 225-230 White, R.L. 167-175 Winter, L. 115-121, 123-131 Wolstencroft, R.D. 471-483 Wright, A.E. 485-489

Yamagata, T. 245-253 Yentis, D.G. 67-76,345-351,353-359,

471-483 Yoshii, Y. 245-253

Zacharias, N. 115-121,123-131 Zumach, W.A. 77-85, 215-224

SUBJECT INDEX

AAT (see telescopes) Abell analysis 74, 314-315,339,346,

463 Abell clusters 316-317, 345-351,460 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) 42,

358,426,441,443-444,446-447,456,460

Adaptive filtering 169, 174 AlPS 110 Analog-to-digital (A/D) convert­

ers 90, 112, 114, 128, 139, 142, 145

APM (see measuring machines) APS (see measuring machines) AQD (automated quasar detec-

tion) 407, 425-426 Areal profile 200, 466 Array processors (see also trans­

puters) 124 Asteroids

Earth approaching 237 searches for 16, 18-19, 106, 237-

244, 506 Astrometric accuracy 14,24-25,44-

47,82,87,105,134,172-173, 177-191,503

ASTROSCAN I and II (see mea-suring machines)

Asymmetric drift 181 Atmospheric chromatic effects 14 Atmospheric refraction 178, 502 AUTOFIB (multi-object fibre sys-

tem) 295, 318, 398

Be stars (see stars - particular) Big Bang model 324 Binary star systems 265, 311

eclipsing binaries 258, 261 X-ray binaries 431-440, 444-445

Binning technique (for detection of clusters of galaxies) 71-75, 314, 339, 346

Black holes 108, 255, 438, 506

51l

BL Lac objects 119, 358, 408, 423, 441,443-444,446-449

Blue object surveys (see also UVX surveys) 17

Brown dwarfs (see dwarf stars)

Calibration (see photometric calibra­tion)

CAPRED (CCD data reduction package) 84

Carbon stars (see stars - particu­lar)

Catalogues - galaxies and clus­ters (and surveys for)

Abell cluster catalogue (and south­ern extension) 71, 316-317, 336, 339, 345-351, 354-356, 358, 460

APM galaxy surveys 54-56, 305-311,313-315,323-334,336-338, 487, 495, 502, 505

APM cluster redshift survey 313-321

Caltech POSS-II galaxy survey 225-230, 337-338

Durham/ AAT redshift survey 386-387

Durham/ AAT /SAAO red shift sur­vey 385

Durham/UKST galaxy redshift survey 389-395

Edinburgh/Durham Southern gal­axy survey 68, 323, 335-345, 384-385, 389, 477, 495, 502, 505

Edinburgh/Durham cluster sur­vey 321, 337-345

IRAS galaxy redshift survey 324, 390, 398

Lick galaxy catalogue 56,221,223, 332, 334, 336-338

Palomar faint cluster survey 97-98

512

ROE/NRL cluster catalogue 67, 71-75,345-351,353-359,462-463

Second Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies 497

Stromlo/ APM redshift survey 314, 320

Surface Photometry Catalogue of the ESO-U ppsala galaxies 211

Zwicky cluster catalogue 460 Catalogues - multi-purpose

APS catalogue of the POSS-I plates 77-85, 215, 223, 448

COSMOS/UKST catalogue of the Southern sky 18, 67-75, 147, 239, 345, 351, 364-365, 398, 448-449, 458-463, 471-483, 492, 504

Catalogues - stellar AGI{1120 AGK2 115, 119-120, 186 AGK3 120, 185-191 Astrographic Catalogue (AC) 115,

119-120, 182 Carlsberg Meridian Circle Cata­

logue (CAMC) 83, 186-189 FK5119 HST Guide Star Catalogue (GSC­

I) 54, 87-90, 92, 96, 101, 148, 154, 156, 174, 185, 187-189, 448, 465, 467, 496, 502, 504

HST Second Generation Guide Star Catalogue (GSC-II) 61-62,89-90,92

HST Guide Star Photometric Cat­alogue (GSPC-I) 61, 68, 83-84, 90, 92, 466-467

HST Second Generation Guide Star Photometric Catalogue (GSPC-II) 61-63,90, 92

Position and Proper Motion Cat­alogue (PPM) 82, 108, 182, 188, 190

Tycho catalogue 108 CCDs

cameras/detectors 8, 20, 36, 38,

Subject Index

41,43-52,108,112,115-117, 123-131, 133-134, 137-138, 141-143,154,199-200,203-204, 206-208, 226, 256, 258, 260, 389, 391, 496, 503-505, 508

images/sequences 57-63, 68, 83-84, 90, 97-98, 147-148, 174, 226-228,255,258-259,262-263, 266, 268, 281, 299, 301, 305,309,314,323,326,328-334,336,398,407,412,416, 426,487,493-494,497,502-506, 508

CD ROM distribution of sky sur­veys 21-22, 71, 88-89, 153-154,156-157,164-165,174, 442, 492-493, 504-505

Cepheids (see stars - particular) CFHT (see telescopes) Characteristic curve 24, 194-198,

200 Cluster catalogues (see catalogues

- galaxies and clusters) Clusters of galaxies (see also cata­

logues - galaxies and clus­ters) 71, 104, 231, 302, 305, 307-308, 313-321, 337-344, 345-351, 353-359, 370, 372, 376, 441-444, 447-451, 456, 459-463, 467

correlation function of 313, 316, 318-320, 339-340, 343

filaments and bridges between 372 large-scale cl ustering/ distri bu tion

of316, 318-319, 335-344, 494 luminosity function of 372 redshifts of313-321, 339-344, 397,

399-404 spikes in redshift distribution of

341-342, 397, 399-404 X-ray luminosity of 307,441-443,

451 Cold Dark Matter model (CDM)

54-56,313,318,323-324,332-334, 337, 383, 398, 495, 505

Subject Index

Colour-Magnitude Diagram (CMD) 282-284, 288

Comets (see also Comet Halley, Ob­ject Index) 154

Compact groups of galaxies 361-365

Compression of COSMOS lAM data 68, 70 of pixel data 88-89, 153-166,167-

175, 492, 500 Concentration index 200-202, 204 Cosmic Micro-Wave Background

(CMWB) 376,398 Cosmological parameters

curvature I( 373, 375 deceleration qo 373-375 density flo 372-373 Hubble constant Ho 372-373 Lambda A 373-374 pressure II 0 373-374

COSMOS (see measuring machines) analysis software 68, 70-71 crowded-field deblender 68, 71, 91

CTIO (see observatories) Curve of growth 200

DAOPHOT 84 Dark matter

in the Galactic Halo 105, 108,255-264

in the Universe 377 Databases (see catalogues) Density fluctuations (see Universe) Digital Sky Surveys (see Sky Sur-

veys) Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)

157-159 Distortions (in photographic

plates) 46, 48, 134,179,185-186, 191, 266, 503

Dwarf galaxies (see also Object In­dex) 27, 281, 287, 291-294, 295-298, 299, 301, 491

Dwarf satellite galaxies 271, 277, 291-294, 299

Dwarf stars

513

brown dwarfs 12-14, 42, 53, 108, 149,255,265-270,494,506-507

M dwarfs 418, 437 red dwarfs 12 white dwarfs 12, 149, 265, 444

Edge-matching (see plate-to-plate matching)

Einstein (see satellites) Elementary particles 255 Emission nebulae (see nebulae) ESO (see observatories)

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) 157 Fermi-Dirac function 130 Field effects (also field errors) 44,

59-60,273-274,282,412-413, 502

Fine grain emulsions/films 23-33, 138-139,491-492,501, 504, 508

Kodak 2415 film 23-25 Kodak 4415 film 23-33, 139, 501,

504 FISCH spectrograph 395 FLAIR (multi-object spectro­

scopic system) 20, 384-385, 389, 395, 413, 507

Flying spot scanners 45, 77 FOCAS (Faint Object Classifica­

tion and Analysis System) 97-98, 227-230, 497

Fourier analysis 90, 95-98 Fractal compression 156, 160 Friedmann-Lemaitre model 367 Fuzzy-set theory (for object clas-

sification) 211

Galaxies 6, 18-20,45, 119, 149, 156, 159,161,271,295-299,443-444, 456

correlation function of 42, 54-55, 212,305,320,323-334,336-337, 383, 385, 495

clustering and distribution of 6, 8, 42, 54-57, 215, 305, 313,

514

323-344, 375-376, 383-386, 397-404, 494, 501, 505

evolution of 44, 53, 56, 398 large-scale surveys for 27, 42, 44-

45,53-54,209,225,299-311, 313-321, 323-334, 361-365, 367-381, 502

luminosity function of 54,370, 372 luminosity profiles of 56 magnitude-diameter relationship

for 84 number-magnitude count of 54,

74,368 origin (and formation of) 35, 44,

215, 255, 323, 335 redshifts of20, 209, 295-296,307,

313-321, 323, 335, 367-381, 383-387, 389-395, 397-404, 505

spikes in redshift distribution 296, 341-343, 384, 397-404, 426, 505

starburst galax:ies 104, 107, 447 superclusters of 6, 340 voids in distribution of 6, 323,

383-386 GALAXY (see measuring machines) Galaxy

bulge of 253 disc of 56, 245, 250-251 halo of 108, 255-264, 506 kinematics of 149, 181, 190, 507 metallicity of 252 obscuration/extinction in 42, 154,

253, 314, 442 plane of 68, 147-148, 309, 416,

431, 436, 472 scale height of 245, 250-251 scale length of 245, 250-251 spheroid of 245-252 structure of 53, 92, 104, 154, 215,

245-253,368,494,501,505-506

thick disc of 45-246, 248-252 thin disc of 245-246, 248-252

Galaxy catalogues (see catalogues

Subject Index

- galaxies and clusters) Gamma ray bursters 17 GASP (Guide Star Astrometric

Support Package) 88, 299 GIPSY 110 Globular clusters

around M87 27, 30 of the Galaxy 271-279, 282

Gold spots (see microspots) Grain noise 44-46, 103 Grain structure (graininess, gran­

ularity) 24-25, 27, 32, 126, 134

Great Attractor 305,307, 309 Great Wall 398-399, 401, 426 Grism/grens plates 417,426 Guide star digitised survey im-

ages 88-89, 167-175, 465-469

Guide stars 50, 154 for Hubble Space Telescope 12,

17,87,89

Haar transform (also H-trans­form)94,157-162,167-169, 174

Halo stars 149 Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum of

matter 376-377 Hash lists 81 Heidenhain encoders 103, 116, 125 HI! regions 479 HIPPARCOS (see satellites) Honeycutt-Chaldu function 194-

195, 197-198 Horizontal branch stars (see stars

- particular) HST (see telescopes) Hubble Flow 307 Hubble galaxy classification

scheme 209, 211, 368, 384 Huffman coding 157-158, 172 Hydrogen fusion/burning in stars

265, 270, 282

Image deblending 82, 91, 200-201, 226, 496

Subject Index

in COSMOS data 68,71,239,244, 337,458,467

using FOCAS 97 Inflation model 367, 376 Infra-red identifications (see also

optical identifications) 108, 442, 447-448, 458, 471-483, 487, 506

Infra-red surveys IRAS Faint Source Survey 67,71,

147,471-483,487 IRAS Point Source Survey 447,

458,471-472,487 Initial Mass Function (IMF) 42 INT (see telescopes) Internal absorption (in galaxies)

370 Interstellar extinction 108 IRAF (see STSDAS) IRAS (see satellites) Isochrones 266, 287

JKT (see telescopes) JNLT (see telescopes) Jupiters 108

K-corrections 297, 368, 375 King model 74, 346 Kirkwood gaps 241 Kolmogorov-Smirnovtest 74, 372-

373, 455 KPNO (see observatories)

Legendre polynomial expansions 178-179

Levenberg-Marquardt non-linear least squares algorithm 129

Light curves 258-259,294,455 Limbers formula 55 Likelihood ratio 476-478, 480 Lossy /lossless data compression

155-157,167-168,174 Low luminosity /mass stars (see also

dwarf stars) 12,42, 265-270, 507

Low Surface Brightness galaxies (LSBs) 295, 299-304,507

515

LUKAS (Lowell-UK Asteroid Sur­vey) 237, 240

Luminosity classes (of stars) 232-233

Lyman alpha searches for high redshift emIS­

sion objects 45 forest 418

Magellanic Clouds 13, 17-18, 68, 296, 505-506

atlas of 17-18 bridge between 281 cluster system of 282, 289 HI distribution in 281, 285, 287 LMC 104, 108,255-256,258,263,

281 luminosity functions in 288 Magellanic Stream 281, 284 SMC 108,272, 281-289 SMC Wing 286-287, 289

Main sequence (see stars, main se-quence of)

Malmquist bias 374-375, 380 MAMA (see measuring machines) Markarian galaxies 92 Mass/Light ratio (M/L) 42, 302,

372 Maximum likelihood analysis 74,

227, 318, 346, 455, 457 M dwarf stars (see dwarf stars) Measuring machines

Advanced Plate Measuring ma­chine (APM) 6, 49, 51, 53-56, 58, 271-274, 277, 295, 299, 302, 305-311, 313-321, 323-334,336,417-424,466, 486-487,495,500,505

Automated Plate Scanner (APS) 77-85,215,217,223,500

Ascorecard 272 ASTROSCAN I and II 109-114,

500 COSMOS 1, 3-4,6, 7, 22,27, 31,

36, 53, 58, 67-75, 91, 135, 137, 141, 147-148, 153-161,

516

226-231,238-240,244,265-267, 269, 281, 291-292, 294, 306, 336-337, 341, 345, 351, 362, 364-365, 383-384, 387, 389,398,407,411-412,416, 425-426, 431-440, 448-449, 455,458,467,471,487,492, 495, 499-500, 504-505

GALAXY 3-4, 499 Hamburg Observatory machine

115-121, 123-131,500 Kiso Observatory PDS machine

199-201, 203, 246, 500 MAMA 103-108, 178, 180, 256,

261 Muenster University PDS

machines 209, 367, 500 Space Telescope Science Institute

PDS machines 89-93, 95-101, 465, 500-501

SuperCOSMOS 7-8,22,36, 133-139, 141-145,147-150, 153-161, 267, 500-501, 508

Microlensing 105, 108,255-264,501, 506

Microspots (also gold spots) 16, 243, 501

MIDAS 103, 110, 195 Minor planets 154 Missing mass 302 Molecular Clouds

GMCs 42 extinction in 105

Monte-Carlo simulations 259, 368 Morphological classification (of

galaxies) 200-202,204-206, 208-213, 314, 368-369, 383-386, 496

Muenster Redshift Project (MRSP) 209,367-381

Multicolour surveys 17, 20,104,108, 133-134, 147-150, 245-253, 405-409,411-416,417-424, 441, 505-507

N ASA/IPAC Extragalactic Data-

Subject Index

base (NED) 443, 450 Nebulae 17,18-19,159,289,479 Neural networks 79, 215-224, 244,

500 Neutron stars (see stars - partic­

ular)

Objective prisms and objective­prism plates 5,38,104,107, 209, 231, 367-369, 380, 407, 417-419,425-426,460,506-507

redshifts of galaxies from 367-381, 506

searches for emission line objects 5

searches for quasars 5, 368, 407, 417-418,425-428,506

surveys 17-18,20 Observatories

Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) 7, 11,93,414,500

Beijing Observatory 193 Calar Alto Observatory 104, 106,

460 Capilla Peak Observatory 83 Carter Observatory 232 Cerro Tololo Interamerican Ob­

servatory (CTIO) 62,64,83, 93, 307, 309, 414

European Southern Observatory (ESO) 7, 15,62,64,93, 104, 193-195,261-262,414,458-459

Hamburg Observatory 115, 120, 123,460

Kiso Observatory 199-201, 206, 246, 504

Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) 62, 93, 449

Landessternwarte Heidelberg Ob­servatory 458

La Palma Observatory 43, 48-49, 414, 418

Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) 201,206

Subject Index

Leiden Observatory 110, 112 Lick Observatory 423 Lowell Observatory 62, 93, 237 McDonald Observatory 62, 83 Megantic Observatory 62, 93 Meudon Observatory 104, 106 Mount John Observatory, 193-194 Mount Stromlo Observatory 307,

314 National Astronomical Observa-

tory of Japan 206 Nobeyama Radio Observatory 206 NRAO 53, 422-424, 447, 485-489 Palomar Observatory 4-5, 7, 98,

104, 500 Paris Observatory 103, 178, 256,

261 Parkes Radio Observatory 53, 485-

489 Pic du Midi Observatory 104, 106 Royal Greenwich Observatory

(RGO) 4,500 Royal Observatory Edinburgh

(ROE) 1, 5, 7,11,15,67,93, 101, 133, 137, 141, 229, 311, 345-351, 411, 414

Royal Observatory of Belgium 195 South African Astrophysical Ob­

servatory (SAAO) 291, 307, 309, 314, 384-385

Sacramento Peak Observatory 104, 106

Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) 5, 104, 389, 455, 458, 463, 465,471-472,477,480,486, 499-500, 504

Steward Observatory 414 Tautenberg Observatory 104 Teide Observatory 104, 106 Torino Astronomical Observatory

62, 92 US Naval Observatory (USNO)

120 Wise Observatory 62, 93

Occultations 106-107 Optical identifications

517

of Einstein satellite data 353-359, 441-451

of IRAS sources 53, 67, 71, 104, 147,471-483,487-488

of the MIT/Greenbank survey 422-424

of the Parkes/MIT /NRAO radio survey 53,485-489

of ROSAT satellite data 53, 67, 71,74,93,147,453-463,465-469,504

of X-ray binaries 431-440

Parallaxes (of stars) 3, 17 PDS machines 45,89-91,95,97-99,

112, 134, 193, 199-201, 203, 209, 226-227, 246, 367, 460, 465, 500-501

Percolation technique for detection of clusters of galax­

ies 71-75, 314, 346, 350,462 for detection of X-ray sources 443

Periodograms 292-293, 400-404 Photographic amplification 27-30,

504 Photographic plate/film sensiti­

sat ion 5, 32, 46 Photographic sky surveys (see sky

surveys) Photometric accuracy 16, 25, 44-

49, 54-60 Photometric calibration 53-64, 68,

193-198,494,497-498,502-503, 508

Plate addition 8, 507 Plate matching

for astrometric solutions 177-183, 185-191,273-274

for galaxy photometry 56, 68,147, 305, 309, 313, 325-334, 336, 384, 487

for object verification 79, 274-275, 412

Point spread function (PSF) 84, 90, 97, 111, 226-228

POSS-II (see sky surveys)

518

Power spectrum (of galaxy red-shift distribution) 399-404

Primordial comets 43, 45 Primordial galaxies 43, 45 Proper motions

of quasars 149-150 of stars 3, 12, 14, 20, 89, 92, 104-

105, 107, 115, 119-120, 135, 138, 147-150, 154, 177-183, 186, 191, 265-270, 271-279, 507

Pulsars 433, 438

QSOs (see quasars) Quadratic coding 169, 172 Quantum efficiency 48, 503-504 Quasars (and QSOs - see also

objective prism searches for) 6, 18-20, 42, 119, 149-150,271,368,376,456,458, 506

clustering/distribution of6, 8, 406-408, 412, 416, 425-428, 502, 506

evolution of 412-415, 421 groups of 425-428 high redshift 37,43,45,412-413,

416-424 log N -log S relation for 405-406 luminosity function of 374, 405-

406,408,412-413,416 multicolour surveys for 405-409,

411-416,417-424 redshifts of 6, 20, 368, 406-408,

419-420, 423 searches for 45, 53,104,108,367-

368,405-409,411-416,417-424, 425-428

UVX quasars 407, 412-413, 415-416, 419

variable quasars 92, 104 Quasar surveys

APM high redshift quasar survey 417-424

Edinburgh multi-colour survey 407, 411-416

Subject Index

ESO key programme bright quasar survey 405-409

Palomar-Green (PG) bright quasar survey 405-406, 413-414,441,443-445

Radio source identifications (see also optical identifications) 18, 104, 108, 119, 422-424, 442, 485-489, 506-507

Radio source surveys Condon-Brodend-Seiestad (CBS)

6cm radio survey 447, 458, 485

MIT/Greenbank radio survey (MG) 417,422-424,447

Parkes/MIT/NRAO (PMN) ra­dio survey 53, 485-489, 507

Red dwarf stars (see dwarf stars) Red giant branch stars (see stars

- particular) Reticon diode arrays 103, 112-113 Rings (around galaxies) 288-289 Robotic telescopes 153-154, 160 Roche lobe 433 ROSAT (see satellites) RR Lyrae stars (see stars - par­

ticular) Run-length encoding 143, 168

Sampling interval (for plate digi­tisation) 89, 95-101, 501

Satellite trails 239, 311 Satellites

A-3 432, 436-437 Ariel V 431-432, 438,442 ASTRO-D 440.496 COBE 496 Copernicus 438 EINSTEIN 353-359,431,436,438,

441-451 EXOSAT 435, 438 GINGA 431 HEAO-1 432, 436-438,442 HIPPARCOS 104, 115, 119-120,

180

Subject Index

IRAS 41-42, 53, 67, 92, 314, 324, 390, 447-448, 458, 471-483, 487-488, 496, 506

ISO 471,496 WE 496 MIR space station 439 ROSAT 1, 53, 67, 372, 436, 440-

442, 449, 453-463, 465-467, 496, 504

SAS-3432 TYCHO 108 UHURU 431, 438

SCAR 439 Schechter fit 372-373 Secular parallaxes 271 Selected areas

SA54 245-253 SA57 245, 247, 249, 251 SA68 247,251

Selenium toning 16 Separation analysis 346-348, 350,

354, 356-357 SES (Second Epoch Southern Sky

Survey) (see Sky Surveys) Seyfert activity 92 Signal/noise 141, 210-211

in emulsion 3, 24, 45, 49, 380 ofCCD-based surveys 49,58,228

SIMBAD 443, 449, 455-456, 458-460, 462, 496

Single element scanning machines (see PDS machines)

Sky Atlases (see also Sky Surveys) 14-15, 18

Sky background (on plates) 78, 142-143, 147, 156, 168-169, 200-201, 238-239, 246, 310, 458,492

Sky noise 58, 168 Sky Surveys 12-15, 153, 242, 504

Deep Near Infrared Survey (DE­NIS) 41-42

digital sky surveys 8, 12, 43-52, 493, 508

ESO-B sky survey 13, 408, 436 ESO-R sky survey 12-13, 15, 148

519

Palomar Observatory 'Quick' V sky survey 89, 92, 172, 186, 188-189,465-466

Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) 12-13, 44, 46, 69, 77-85, 92, 94, 109, 134, 169, 173,177,215,217,221,223-224,265,346,349,361,417-418,422,446,465-466,487

Palomar Observatory Second Epoch sky survey (POSS-II) 12-13,44,52,62,89,94,96-98, 109-111, 114, 133, 139, 225-230, 306, 420, 494, 500, 504, 507-508

SERC-Equatorial J (EJ) sky sur­vey 13, 15-16, 68-69, 101, 148, 309, 465

SERC-Equatorial R (ER) sky sur­vey 13, 15-16

SERC I/SR sky survey (Galactic plane and Magellanic Clouds) 13, 15-16, 18,67-69,147

SERC Southern sky IIIa-J sky sur­vey 5, 12-15, 18, 44, 61, 68-69,89,133,148,211-212,305-306, 310, 345, 349, 353-354, 362, 384, 446, 448, 455, 461, 465, 487, 504

SERC Second Epoch Southern sky survey (SES, also referred to as AAO-R) 12-16,44,89,148, 265-266, 420, 500, 507

Solar apex/antapex 271, 276-278 Solar system 238-239, 241

studies of 18-19, 43,45, 104, 106-107,237

distant objects in 237, 243 South Atlantic Anomaly 454 Stars - general 18-20, 156

clusters (see also globular clus-ters) 18-19, 105

counts of 105, 108, 177, 245-253 distribution of 8, 45 luminosity function (LF) of 41,

266-267, 269, 288

520

main sequence 265-266,270,283, 286-289, 434

mass content in galaxies 41-42 nearby 105, 177, 507 populations 104-105, 108, 177,

285-289 proper motions (see proper mo­

tions, of stars) spectral classification of 231-233,

368 Stars - particular

Be stars 432-434, 437-438 carbon stars 282, 289, 418 Cepheids 258-260, 262, 285, 289 horizontal branch stars 282-285,

289 neutron stars 433-435 Red giant branch stars 282-283 RR Lyrae stars 17,291-293 Supergiant stars 289 T Tauri stars 447, 479 Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars 17

Star/galaxy discrimination 27, 42, 68,79,82,201,208-209,215-224,225-230,246-247,305-306, 309, 314, 336, 344-345, 350, 361, 368, 380, 384, 398, 412,418,458,479,496,500-501

STARLINK 269, 414,439 Stellar luminosity function (faint

end of) 6, 104 Streaming motions

of galaxies 305, 307 of stars 178, 180

ST SDAS (Space Telescope Sci­ence Data Analysis Sys­tem) 88, 110

Sun 103, 106 solar flares 25, 106

Superclusters (see Object Index for specific objects) 75, 340, 370, 372,376-377,426

hot intra-supercluster gas in 372 SuperCOSMOS (see measuring ma­

chines)

Subject Index

Supergiant stars (see stars - par­ticular)

Supernovae (and remnants) 154, 444-445, 454, 456, 503

Telescopes Anglo-Australian Telescope

(AAO) 4, 6, 57-59, 295, 318, 385-386, 398, 413, 438-439, 458, 487-488, 502, 507

Calar Alto Schmidt Telescope 460 CERGA Schmidt Telescope 104-

107,177 CFHT 106 Chinese Large Schmidt Telescope

35-39 CTIO 1.5m Telescope 291 Danish 1.5m Telescope 281, 407 du Pont 2.5m Telescope 201, 291 ESO O.4m GPO astrographic Tele-

scope 194,258,260, 262-263 ESO 1m Telescope 41 ESO 1.5m Telescope 407 ESO 2.2m Telescope 407 ESO 3.6m Telescope 380 ESO Schmidt Telescope 6, 12-13,

104-108, 256, 262-263, 272, 367, 407

Hale 5m Telescope 97 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) 12,

61-64,87,89,93, 174,465 Isaac Newton 2.5m Telescope

(INT) 43, 48-52, 418 Japanese National Large Telescope

(JNLT) 206 Johannes Kepler Telescope (JKT)

57,59 Kiso 1.05m Schmidt Telescope

199-201, 203, 208, 245-246, 503-504

KPNO 4m Telescope 104 Mt Hopkins 1.5m Telescope 449 Mt John 0.3m Schmidt Telescope

194 Multi-Mirror Telescope (MMT)

448-449

Subject Index

NRAO 43m Radiotelescope 486 NRAO 91m Radiotelescope 422,

485-486 Palomar 105m Telescope 226 Palomar Oschin Schmidt Telescope

4-5,7,12-13,37,43,93,95, 97-98,104-105,107,136,155, 161, 225-226, 272, 346, 500

Parkes multi-beam Radiotelescope 485-489

SAAO 1m Telescope 57, 59 SAAO 109m Telescope 384 Shane 3m Telescope 422-423 UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)

266 UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST)

3-4,6,11-33,37,43,48-49, 51,53,57,67-75,93,95,104, 133-134,136-138,143, 147-148, 153, 231, 237-244, 265, 269, 272, 281, 295, 299, 305, 307, 309, 313, 341, 344-346, 349, 351, 361, 364, 367, 378, 380, 383-385, 389-395, 398, 407, 411, 413-414, 417-418, 420,424-426,436,439,446, 448-449, 458, 461, 471, 477, 485, 487, 491-492, 499-502, 504, 507-508

VLA 422-423, 449, 486-487 William Herschel Telescope

(WHT) 48 Xinglong 0.6m Schmidt Telescope

193 Tautenberg Schmidt Telescope

104-105,107,177,182,271-272, 274, 277

Transputers 137, 141-145 T Tauri stars (see stars - particu­

lar)

UCAS (UK-Caltech Asteroid Sur-vey) 237-238

UKIRT (see telescopes) UKSCAT 436 UKST (see telescopes)

521

UKST Plate Library (at ROE) 16,20-21,75,311,414,424, 439

Universe density fluctuations in 376-380,

385, 398 homogeneity in 375 hierarchical structure of 375-376 large-scale structure of 44, 71, 215,

335, 367, 494 origin and evolution of 35, 335

Unsharp masking 27 UVX survey/objects (see also blue

object survey) 148,407,413, 415-416, 434

Variable objects/stars 16, 18-19, 154,258,291-294,408

cataclysmic variables 433, 443-444

red variable stars in SMC/LMC 17

searches for variables 17, 92, 105, 149, 506-507

variable stars in Galactic centre 105

variable quasars 92, 104 Vignetting

in POSS-I plates 85 in SuperCOSMOS optics 142 in UKST plates 313, 412, 502

VLBI119 Voronoi foam (tesselation) model

343

White dwarf stars (see dwarfstars) WHT (see telescopes) Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars (see stars

- particular) WORM optical disks 153, 465

X-ray(s} background of 441-443, 454, 456 in binaries 431-440, 444-445 in clusters of galaxies 307, 441-

443,451

522

coronal activity of 433, 439, 445 flares 433-435 log N -log S relationship 442, 455,

457 pulsars 433 transients 431, 433-440

X-ray identifications (see also opti­cal identifications) 1, 17-18, 108,353-359,431-451,453-463,465-469,504,506-507

X-ray surveys Einstein Medium Sensitivity Sur­

vey(EMSS) 353,356-358,442-444, 460

Einstein Slew Survey (ESS) 353-356, 441-451

ROSAT all sky X-ray survey 1, 53, 67, 440, 442, 449, 453-463, 465-469, 504

Yourdon-de Marco software methodology 113, 144

Zero age main sequence (ZAMS) 270

Zwicky clusters 460

Subject Index

OBJECT INDEX

Brown dwarf candidates GD165B 265 MH2115-4518 265 Wolf 424AB 265

Clusters of Galaxies Abe1l68 226, 228 Abe1l73 226, 228 Abe1l193 444 Abe1l773 444 Abell1016173-174 Abe1l1602 444 Abe1l1651 444 Abe1l1664 444 Abe1l2495 444 Abe1l3404 444 Abe1l3627 173 Abe1l3866 444 Coma 199-200, 205, 217, 223 Forna.x 282, 295-301, 303, 507 S724444 S1158444 Virgo 287, 372-373 ZW314444

Dwarf galaxies/low SB galaxies

Carina 302 Malin1300 M32299 Sculptor 291-294

Einstein Medium Sensitivity Sources

MS0450.6-5602 358 MS2118.4-1050 358

Einstein Slew Survey Sources AGN

S50836+ 710 443 Active stars

FK Com 445 RS CVn 445 AO Leo 445

523

1ES2343-151 448-449 1ES1355-086448 1ES2248-168448

Groups of Galaxies Local Group 291,307,309, 372,

505 Stephan's Quintet 361-362

Individual Galaxies M87 27, 30 M89 27, 29, 33 NGC7314460-461

Radio Sources MG0201+1120 423

Rosat sources RX J0518.1-5835 459 RX J2235.8-2603 460

Solar System objects asteroid belt 243 Comet Halley 17-18, 193-194 Hilda asteroids 241 Jupiter 106,237,239-240 Neptune 102-107,237 Saturn 237, 243 Trojan asteroids 237, 240, 243 Uranus 237

Star clusters Hyades 266, 268, 270 M3 182, 271-279 M5 177-178, 180,182 Pleiades 265-270, 507

Superclusters of galaxies Cetus-Sculptor 372 Hydra-Centaurus 309-310 Local Supercluster (LSC) 56, 385 P erseus-Pisces 309 Sculptor 372 Shapley-Centaurus 307-309

Supernovae remnants HB9456

524

Variable binary stars V861 SCQ 438

X-ray binary stars A0535+26 433 GX304-1433 EX02030+375 436 H1833-077 (Scutum X-1) 436-438 OA01657-41 438 3A1708-407 439

Object Index