Unveiling Large-Scale Structures Behind the Milky Way: Workshop at the Observatoire De Paris-Meudon 18-21 January 1994 Book

	Table of Contents
	List of Participants
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Scientific and Local Organising Committees
	The Early History of Galaxy Searches in the ZOA	3
	Introduction: Why and How to Probe the Zone of Avoidance?	7
	Visualization of Nearby Large-Scale Structures	21
	The Leiden/Dwingeloo Survey of HI in our Galaxy	31
	The 2 Micron All-Sky Survey	41
	How Well should the DENIS Survey Probe through the Galactic Plane?	53
	How ESO-LV Did and Did Not (?) Look through the Galaxy	63
	X-Ray Observations in the Zone of Avoidance	73
	The Expansion and Update of the 'Southern Redshift Catalogue'	77
	Optical Identification of Galaxies along the Northern Milky Way: a Status Report on a Project at Innsbruck	81
	An Optical Galaxy Search from the Hydra/Antlia to the Great Attractor Region	89
	The 3-Dimensional Galaxy Distribution in the ZOA from Hydra/Antlia to the Great Attractor Region	99
	Mapping Large-Scale Structures behind the Galactic Plane	113
	A Visual Search for Galaxies behind the Southern Milky Way on the UK Schmidt Atlas	121
	Galaxy Surveys near the Galactic Center Region and the Ophiuchus Supercluster	131
	A Search for Galaxies in the Anticenter ZOA	143
	Results from Multifiber Spectroscopy of Galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance	155
	A Presentation of Galaxies Identified in the Region [actual symbol not reproducible]	159
	A Search for Galaxies behind the Galactic Plane at [actual symbol not reproducible]	163
	Study of the Shapley Concentration	167
	Wiener Reconstruction of All-Sky Spherical Harmonic Maps of the Large-Scale Structure	171
	Wiener Reconstruction of the Large-Scale Structure in the Zone of Avoidance	185
	Modelling Large Scale Velocity Flows with Incomplete Sky Coverage	197
	Searching at 21-cm for Galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance	203
	Recent Radio Continuum Surveys of the Southern Milky Way and a Future MultiBeam HI-Survey	213
	HI-Studies Related to the Optical Thickness of Spiral Galaxies	217
	An HI-Search for IRAS Galaxies in the Galactic Plane	225
	IRAS Galaxies in the Perseus Supercluster North-East Extension	231
	Large-Scale Structures in the Highly Obscured Orion-Taurus Region	239
	The Quality of Extragalactic IRAS Selections	249
	Quantifying Large-Scale Structure behind the Milky Way Using the IRAS Point Source Catalogue
	Search for IRAS Galaxies behind the Milky Way and the Puppis Hidden Concentration of Galaxies	269
	LEDA: The Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Data Base	281
	Distribution of IRAS Galaxies behind the Milky Way	285
	Comments on the Conference	289
	An overview of the Optical Galaxy Searches in the Zone of Avoidance	297
	Thanks to the organizers	299
	Author Index	301