Astronomy at High Angular Resolution A Compendium of Techniques in the Visible and Near-Infrared /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boffin, Henri M. J. (Editor), Hussain, Gaitee (Editor), Berger, Jean-Philippe (Editor), Schmidtobreick, Linda (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 439
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

This book offers an essential compendium of astronomical high-resolution techniques. Recent years have seen considerable developments in such techniques, which are critical to advances in many areas of astronomy. As reflected in the book, these techniques can be divided into direct methods, interfer...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by the editors
• Adaptive optics
• Aperture masking imaging
• Disentangling of stellar spectra
• Interferometry
• Lucky Imaging
• Roche tomography
• Spectro-astrometry
• Astrotomography of planets
• Adaptive optics of planets & disks
• Stellar surfaces with interferometry
• The Galactic Centre at high-angular resolution
• AGN interferometry
• AGN reverberation mapping
• Doppler and Magnetic Imaging of Stellar Surfaces
• Doppler Tomography
• Doppler Tomography of Polars
• Doppler Imaging of cool stars and brown dwarfs
• Eclipse Mapping
• Stokes Imaging.