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  title info:
    title: Optical, Infrared and Radio Astronomy
    sub title: From Techniques to Observation
  name:
    name part: Poggiani, Rosa.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 179 p. 78 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This textbook presents the established sciences of optical, infrared, and radio astronomy as distinct research areas, focusing on the science targets and the constraints that they place on instrumentation in the different domains. It aims to bridge the gap between specialized books and practical texts, presenting the state of the art in different techniques. For each type of astronomy, the discussion proceeds from the orders of magnitude for observable quantities that drive the building of instrumentation and the development of advanced techniques. The specific telescopes and detectors are then presented, together with the techniques used to measure fluxes and spectra. Finally, the instruments and their limits are discussed to assist readers in choice of setup, planning and execution of observations, and data reduction. The volume also includes worked examples and problem sets to improve student understanding; tables and figures in chapters su mmarize the state of the art of instrumentation and techniques.
  table of contents: Part 1: The basics -- Chapter 1: Setting the scene -- Chapter 2: Pointing the telescope: astronomical coordinates and sky catalogs -- Part 2: Optical Astronomy -- Chapter 3: Optical astronomy: telescopes -- Chapter 4: Telescopes: ground based or in space? -- Chapter 5: Optical astronomy: detectors -- Chapter 6: Optical photometry -- Chapter 7: Optical spectroscopy -- Part 3: The low energy side of classical astronomy -- Chapter 8: Infrared astronomy -- Chapter 9: Radio and submillimeter astronomy: radiotelescopes -- Chapter 10: Radio and submillimeter astronomy: receivers and spectrometers -- Part 4: Instruments acting together: interferometry -- Chapter 11: Interferometry and aperture synthesis -- Chaper 12: Interferometers -- Part 5: Observing -- Chapter 13: Observations: preparation and execution -- Chapter 14: After observation: data analysis -- Chapter 15: Conclusions.
  note: by Rosa Poggiani.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  classification: QB4
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: UNITEXT for Physics
  identifier: 9783319447322
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44732-2
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    record creation date: 161205
    record change date: 20170809142058.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-44732-2