Astronomical Photometry Past, Present, and Future /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Milone, Eugene F. (Editor), Sterken, C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 373
• Subjects: Physics.; Astrophysics.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

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 inf...

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.