1996/12/18 by Mark Dickinson, Dickinson, Mark
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9612178
To appear in ``HST and the High Redshift Universe,'' proceedings of the 37th Herstmonceux Meeting held in Cambridge, UK, on 1-5 July 1996. Editors: N. Tanvir, A. Aragon-Salamanca, and J.V. Wall, published by World Scientific. Uses hx37_latex.sty latex style file (included)
arxiv created 1996/12/18 · openalex publication_date 1996/12/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Although field galaxy studies have begun to probe the universe at z > 1, evidence for galaxy clusters at such redshifts has been sparse. New observations are accumulating rapidly, however, providing new data on the early evolution of elliptical galaxies, the blue ``Butcher-Oemler'' population, and of large scale structure at unprecedentedly large lookback times. I briefly review some of these new observations, discussing morphological and spectral characteristics of cluster galaxies at z > 1, x--ray evidence for massive, collapsed clusters out to z = 1.8, and tantalizing indications from the literature for clusters at 2 < z < 5.