Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 2000. 38: 667-715 Copyright © 2000 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved

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Abstract. The Hubble space telescope observations of the northern Hubble deep field, and more recently its counterpart in the south, provide detections and photometry for stars and field galaxies to the faintest levels currently achievable, reaching magnitudes V ~ 30. Since 1995, the northern Hubble deep field has been the focus of deep surveys at nearly all wavelengths. These observations have revealed many properties of high redshift galaxies, and have contributed to important data on the stellar mass function in the Galactic halo.

Keywords: catalogs -- cosmology: observations -- galaxies: evolution -- galaxies: formation -- galaxies: photometry -- surveys.

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• This Review
• PART 1: OBSERVATIONS, MEASUREMENTS, AND PHENOMENOLOGY
• STARS
• Supernova events
• GALAXIES
• Galaxy colors and morphology
• Galaxy counts
• Galaxy sizes
• Spectroscopic and Photometric Redshifts
• Galaxy Kinematics
• Mid-IR Sources
• Sub-millimeter Sources
• Radio sources
• Active Galactic Nuclei
• Gravitational Lensing
• Intergalactic Medium
• Galaxy Clustering
• INTERPRETATION
• Galaxy counts vs. simple models
• The morphology of high-redshift galaxies
• Elliptical galaxies
• Obscured populations
• Global star-formation history and chemical evolution
• Clustering of high-redshift galaxies
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES