"Constructing the Universe with Clusters of Galaxies", IAP 2000 meeting, Paris, eds. F. Durret and D. Gerbal

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Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• THE DISTRIBUTION OF CLUSTERS
• Early days
• Surveys and catalogues
• Superclusters and voids
• Clusters and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe
• THE CLUSTER COMPONENTS
• The morphology-density relation
• Luminosity segregation
• Kinematical segregation
• Star formation in cluster galaxies
• Density and velocity dispersion profiles
• The hot IC gas
• Radio components
• STRUCTURE
• Subclustering
• Mass
• Luminosity
• On the nature of the dark matter in clusters
• EVOLUTION
• The formation and evolution of galaxy clustering
• The evolution of galaxies in clusters
• The evolution of the IC gas
• Cooling flows and the evolution of cD galaxies
• CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES