Stellar Populations at Large Redshifts

Abstract

Rapid progress is now being made in the study of stellar populations of galaxies at large lookback times, both in dense clusters and the field. Dramatic transformations in star formation histories (even morphologies) appear to prevail among all types of galaxies and in all environments, and these can be traced to relatively recent times (z ~ 0.2). This article updates to December 1998 a review made in 1994 to cover the recent watershed of observational results emerging from the Hubble Deep Field and deep surveys made with large ground-based telescopes.

12 pages; single tar.gz file includes LaTeX text file, 2 PostScript figures, and 2 style files. Updated review article to be published in the 1999 revised edition of "Stellar Populations (IAU Symposium No. 164)", eds P. van der Kruit and G. Gilmore (Kluwer)