Measuring the universe : a multiwavelength perspective / George H. Rieke ; illustrated by Shiras Manning.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: xii, 343 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780521762298
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521.4 LYT The primordial density perturbation : | 521.58 CLA Principles of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis : | 521 SIE Lectures on celestial mechanics / | 522 RIE Measuring the universe : | 522.6209 HEA The measurement of starlight : | 522.67 APP Introduction to astronomical spectroscopy / | 522.67 HIG High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy : |
Index : p. 338-343.
Bibliography : p. 329-337.
"Astronomy is an observational science, renewed and even revolutionized by new developments in instrumentation. With the resulting growth of multiwavelength investigation as an engine of discovery, it is increasingly important for astronomers to understand the underlying physical principles and operational characteristics for a broad range of instruments. This comprehensive text is ideal for graduate students, active researchers and instrument developers. It is a thorough review of how astronomers obtain their data, covering current approaches to astronomical measurements from radio to gamma rays. The focus is on current technology rather than the history of the field, allowing each topic to be discussed in depth. Areas covered include telescopes, detectors, photometry, spectroscopy, adaptive optics and high contrast imaging, millimeter-wave and radio receivers, radio and optical/infrared interferometry, and X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, all at a level that bridges the gap between the basic principles of optics and the subject's abundant specialist literature"--
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