Lecture Notes in Physics

Large scales - Large numbers - Large efforts: Historical annotations.- The Edinburgh/Durham galaxy survey.- The APM galaxy survey: Some data reduction techniques.- Comparison of the correlation functions of bright and faint galaxies.- The Muenster Redshift project. Automated analysis of galaxy clustering on Schmidt plates.- On the use of redshift surveys in observational cosmology.- Wavelength calibration of objective prism plates by transformation from direct plates.- The Muenster redshift project. Automated redshift measurements from low-dispersion objective prism Schmidt plates.- A study of galaxies with z?0.3 in the ESO/SRC Atlas Field No. 411: Galaxy distribution and luminosity functions.- A study of nearby clusters of galaxies.- An application of projected distance cross-correlation for Abell clusters.- Three-point correlations of Abell clusters.- The hydra-centaurus supercluster.- On the orientation of double galaxies.- Visual light and infrared observations as complementary sources of data on intergalactic dust.- Quasar search on objective prism plates.- A search for homogeneous samples of quasars.- Slit spectroscopy of candidates from automated quasar detection on UKSTU prism plates.- The use of quasars for the construction of a future extragalactic inertial reference frame.- Voronoi foam as a model of the medium-scale universe.- Prospects for measuring the evolution of the luminosity function and the angular correlation function.- Galaxy redshift-number counts with MRSP data: A method of estimating q 0.- Photometry from Schmidt plates.- Mathematical aspects of internal magnitude calibration.- Methods of deconvolution.- Comparison of different mathematical methods for the investigation of object distributions.- Multivariate analysis methods: Background and example.- Supervised and unsupervised classification - The case of IRAS point sources.- The hardware and software support for the MRSP.