Deep millimeter surveys: implications for galaxy formation and evolution, 19-21 June, 2000, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

The arrival of large submillimeter and millimeter-wave detector arrays opened a new window on galaxy formation and evolution.

The major new facilities now being designed or constructed, such as ALMA (MMA) and the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), will soon be expanding the horizons even farther.The Conference on “Deep Millimeter Surveys: Implications for Galaxy Formation and Evolution” drew together the major international groups working on submillimeter and millimeter-wave galaxies to discuss their relation to other galaxies both near by and in the early Universe, the role of the LMT and other new facilities in advancing the new field, and the implications of the new results and models for our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution.

The resulting compendium of reports on observations, simulations, theory and interpretation, and instrumentation is the first book to present the new millimeter view of the early Universe thoroughly in a single volume.Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: The Nature of Faint Submillimeter Galaxies (2,111 KB)Contents:Continuum Sub/mm SurveysTemplates at Low RedshiftFacilities and InstrumentationSource Counts and Counterparts of Submm SourcesMolecular Emission Lines at High RedshiftClusteringSub-mm/mm Observations of Known (Low- and) High-Redshift SourcesThe Future of Deep Sub-mm and mm ServeysReadership: Researchers and advanced graduate students in astrophysics.