Information Handling in Astronomy - Historical Vistas

This book is dedicated to the memory of Gisèle Mersch whose life ended prematurely in June 2002. Back in the 1970s, when few people were using them, Gisèle introduced me to the arcane secrets of then advanced m- tivariate statistical methodologies. I was already involved in more classical statistica...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Heck, André (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Σειρά:Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 285
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a Half a Century of Intense Maturation -- Evolution of Time Measurement in Astronomy -- Evolution of Data Processing in Optical Astronomy — A Personal Account -- IHAP: Image Handling and Processing System -- FITS: A Remarkable Achievement in Information Exchange -- The Munich Image Data Analysis System -- AIPS, the VLA, and the VLBA -- Changes in Astronomical Publications During the 20th Century -- The Evolution and Role of the Astronomical Library and Librarian -- The Development of the Astronomy Digital Library -- From Early Directories to Current Yellow-Page Services -- Pre-College Astronomy Education in the United States in the Twentieth Century -- The Birth and Evolution of the Planetarium -- The Changing Role of the IAU in Providing and Organizing Information -- Was the Carte du Ciel an Obstruction to the Development of Astrophysics in Europe? -- Amateur Data and Astronomical Discoveries in the 20th Century. 
520 |a This book is dedicated to the memory of Gisèle Mersch whose life ended prematurely in June 2002. Back in the 1970s, when few people were using them, Gisèle introduced me to the arcane secrets of then advanced m- tivariate statistical methodologies. I was already involved in more classical statistical studies undertaken at Paris Observatory with Jean Jung: developing and applying maxim- likelihood algorithms to stellar photometric and kinematic data in order to derive absolute luminosities, distances and velocities in the solar neighb- hood. But what could be envisaged with those methodologies was something of another dimension: for the first time, I could really see how to extract information from massive amounts of data without calling for elaborated physical or mechanical theories. Several pioneering applications were developed under Gisèle’s guidance and with her collaboration to study the delicate interface between spect- scopic and photometric data. Thus errors in spectral classifications were investigated as well as predictions of spectral classifications from pho- metric indices (see Heck 1976, Heck et al. 1977, Heck & Mersch 1980 and Mersch & Heck 1980), with very interesting results for the time. Gisèle also took part in studies of period determination algorithms (see Mersch & Heck 1981, Manfroid et al. 1983 and Heck et al. 1985). 
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