... Up: Surveys & Large Scale Data Management . ... This paper describes a method to search for cosmic strings using their unique gravitational effect, and its implementation to the Japanese Virtual Observatory (JVO). ... 2003). ... At present, three and half years of Suprime-Cam data are publicly available, so it is interesting to search for a cosmic string in the archived data. ... 2003, Ohishi et al. ... We are now developing tools to search for a cosmic string on the JVO system. ... 2003, Mon. ...

Tuesday, Septemb er 3 `First Galaxies' session 09:40-10:10 Richard Ellis Email: rse@astro.caltech.edu Title: Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Reionization Era Abstract: Deep surveys with the Hubble Space Telescope have provided the primary evidence that star-forming galaxies were present in the first billion years of cosmic history. ... I investigate the cause of this evolution using measurements of the environmental density and star-formation rates of the galaxies at z < 0.6. ...