Cosmological parameters from the CERES project

A. D. Biggs, R. D. Blandford, M. Bremer, I. W. A. Browne, A. G. de Bruyn, J. Cohen, C. D. Fassnacht, Phillip Helbig, N. Jackson, L. King, L. V. E. Koopmans, D. R. Marlow, A. McGuinness, G. Miley, S. T. Myers, S. Nair, A. Patnaik, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead, C. Sykes, P. N. Wilkinson, D. Womble & E. Xanthopoulos

CERES, standing for the Consortium for European Research on Extragalactic Surveys, is a project funded by the European Commission's Training and Mobility of Researchers programme involving 6 institutes in 4 countries. One of the main objectives of the project is the determination of cosmological parameters from survey data; here we report some preliminary results in this area. There is much cooperation and some overlap with the CLASS (Cosmic Lens All Sky Survey) and JVAS (Jodrell Bank VLA Astrometric Survey) teams, whose data form the starting point of our investigations. The institutes forming the CERES network are

• University of Manchester, Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank, UK
• University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy, UK
• University of Groningen, Kapteyn Institute, The Netherlands
• Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
• University of Bologna, Institute for Radioastronomy, Italy
• University of Lisbon, Astronomical Observatory, Portugal