Recent Advances in Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation Studies

Abstract

I review at the non-specialist level recent progress in the study of the large-scale structure of the Universe, covering the following areas: (1) Results from recently completed or ongoing redshift surveys of galaxies and X-ray clusters; (2) Measurements of the power spectrum of fluctuations approaching Gpc scales; (3) Redshift-space distortions and their cosmological use; (4) Structure at high redshifts and its connection to galaxy formation.

13 pages LateX, style file included, 7 PS figures. Invited review to appear in "Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics - TAUP2001", proc. of meeting held at LNGS, September 2001, Nucl.Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.), A. Bettini, A. Bottino & A. Di Credico eds., Elsevier

References in corpus (14)

• The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Spectra and redshifts
• Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Luminous Red Galaxy Sample
• The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The power spectrum and the matter content of the universe
• A measurement of the cosmological mass density from clustering in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
• Galaxy Clustering in Early SDSS Redshift Data
• The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Luminosity dependence of galaxy clustering
• Measuring ${\Omega }_m$ with the ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey
• The ROSAT-ESO Flux Limited X-Ray (REFLEX) Galaxy Cluster Survey I: The Construction of the Cluster Sample
• X-ray Clusters of Galaxies as Tracers of Structure in the Universe
• The ROSAT-ESO Flux-Limited X-Ray (REFLEX) Galaxy Cluster Survey III: The Power Spectrum
• Environment and Galaxy Evolution at Intermediate Redshift in the CNOC2 Survey
• Possible Detection of Baryonic Fluctuations in the Large-Scale Structure Power Spectrum
• The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - IV. The QSO Power Spectrum from the 10k Catalogue
• Galaxy Correlation Statistics of Mock Catalogs for the DEEP2 Survey