Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT The Scientific Achievement of the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Adamson, Andy (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Davies, John (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Robson, Ian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 37
• Θέματα: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

These are the proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the UKIRT, the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope. The volume comprises 31 professional level papers. The first part of the book has 10 thorough r...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The UKIRT Success Story
• UKIRT - the Project and the Early Years
• The IRCAM Revolution
• Continuum Submillimetre Astronomy from UKIRT
• CGS4: A Breakthrough Instrument
• The UKIRT Upgrades Programme
• Operational Innovations
• The UKIRT Wide Field Camera
• Polarimetry at UKIRT
• UKIRT in the mid-Infrared
• Thirty Years of Star Formation at UKIRT
• Comets and Asteroids from UKIRT
• Spectroscopic Tomography of a Wind-collision Region
• Highlights of Infrared Spectroscopy of the Interstellar Medium at UKIRT
• UKIRT and the Brown Dwarfs: from Speculation to Classification
• White Dwarfs in UKIDSS
• Discovery of Variables in WFCAM and VISTA data
• Near Infrared Extinction at the Galactic Centre
• Observations of PAHs and nanodiamonds with UKIRT
• Nearby galaxies with UKIRT: uncovering star formation, structure and stellar masses
• WFCAM Surveys of Local Group Galaxies
• HiZELS: the High Redshift Emission Line Survey with UKIRT
• The HiZELS/UKIRT Large Survey for Bright Lya Emitters at z ~ 9
• Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts at UKIRT
• The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) : Origins and Highlights
• A Billion Stars: the Near-IR View of the Galaxy with the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey
• The UKIDSS Galactic Clusters Survey
• The UKIDSS Deep eXtralactic Survey
• UKIDSS UDS progress and science highlights
• Exploring Massive Galaxy Evolution with the UKIDSS Ultra-deep Survey
• The UKIRT Planet Finder.