Optics in Astrophysics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Foy, Renaud (Editor), Foy, Françoise Claude (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 198
• Subjects: Physics.; Image processing.; Astrophysics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Astrophysics is facing challenging aims such as deep cosmology at redshift higher than 10 to constrain cosmology models, or the detection of exoplanets, and possibly terrestrial exoplanets, and several others. It requires unprecedented ambitious R&D programs, which have definitely to rely on a t...