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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Astronomical Photometry
    sub title: Past, Present, and Future
  name:
    name part: Milone, Eugene F.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sterken, C.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 1.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 220 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book brings together experts in the field of astronomical photometry to discuss how their subfields provide the precision and accuracy in astronomical energy flux measurements that are needed to permit tests of astrophysical theories. Differential photometers and photometry, improvements in infrared precision, the improvements in precision and accuracy of CCD photometry, the absolute calibration of flux, the development of the Johnson UBVRI photometric system and other passband systems to measure and precisely classify specific types of stars and astrophysical quantities, and the current capabilities of spectrophotometry and polarimetry to provide precise and accurate data, are all discussed in this volume. The discussion of `differential’ or `two-star’ photometers ranges from early experiments in visual photometry through the Harvard and Princeton polarizing photometers to the pioneering work of Walraven and differential photometers designed to minimize effects of atmospheric extinction and to counter the effects of aurorae at high latitude sites; two of these are the Pierce-Blitzstein photometer of the University of Pennsylvania, in use for several decades, and the Rapid Alternate Detection System (RADS) developed at the University of Calgary in the 1980s.
  table of contents: Photometric Precision and Accuracy -- The High Road to Astronomical Photometric Precision: Differential Photometry -- High Precision Differential Photometry with CCDs: A Brief History -- The Pierce-Blitzstein Photometer -- Johnson Photometry and its Descendants -- The Rise and Improvement of Infrared Photometry -- On the Use of Photometry in Spectral Classification -- Absolute Photometry: Past and Present -- Optical Region Spectrophotometry: Past and Present -- Measurement of Polarized Light in Astronomy -- Index -- References.
  note: edited by Eugene F. Milone, C. Sterken.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Physical measurements
  subject:
    topic: Measurement
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Signal, Image and Speech Processing
  subject:
    topic: Measurement Science and Instrumentation
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: 523.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 373
  identifier: 9781441980502
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8050-2
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    record creation date: 110406
    record change date: 20151030031059.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4419-8050-2