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Seeing the unseen : Mount Wilson's role in high angular resolution astronomy /

This book provides a detailed history of stellar interferometry as practised at Mount Wilson Observatory. It covers the origin of the field in the early 19th Century, and its subsequent development throughout the last hundred years at the Observatory, including the people, instruments, and methods i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McAlister, Harold A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 6.
AAS-IOP astronomy. 2021 collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a 1. The birth of stellar interferometry -- 1.1. It all started with the last man who knew everything -- 1.2. The master of light -- 1.3. Along the way to the event horizon 
505 8 |a 2. The Mount Wilson opportunity -- 2.1. Go west, young man -- 2.2. Michelson and Hale -- 2.3. Anderson and Merrill 
505 8 |a 3. The pièce de résistance -- 3.1. The stellar diameter imperative -- 3.2. A historic night at the 100 inch telescope -- 3.3. Science from the 20 foot Michelson-Pease Interferometer -- 3.4. The 20 foot then and now 
505 8 |a 4. A bridge too far -- 4.1. The 50 foot Pease Interferometer -- 4.2. A Postmortem of the 50 foot -- 4.3. The curtain lowers 
505 8 |a 5. The interregnum -- 5.1. A summation -- 5.2. Early followers : Maggini, Finsen, Wilson, & Jeffers -- 5.3. An unknown genius -- 5.4. Robert Hanbury Brown's intensity interferometer -- 5.5. Willet I. Beavers' second-generation Michelson-Pease Interferometer -- 5.6. Evgeni Stepanovich Kulagin resolves Capella -- 5.7. Looking to the Future--the Woods Hole summer study 
505 8 |a 6. The great reawakening of the 1970s -- 6.1. Antoine Labeyrie lights a new torch -- 6.2. William C. Wickes' perfection of the Anderson Interferometer -- 6.3. Douglas G. Currie's amplitude interferometry 
505 8 |a 7. Closing out the 20th century -- 7.1. Seeing double on Mount Wilson (1985-2007) -- 7.2. The Mark III Interferometer (1987-1992) 
505 8 |a 8. Into the 21st century -- 8.1. The Infrared Spatial Interferometer (1988-present) -- 8.2. The CHARA Array (1996-present) -- 8.3. Afterword. 
520 3 |a This book provides a detailed history of stellar interferometry as practised at Mount Wilson Observatory. It covers the origin of the field in the early 19th Century, and its subsequent development throughout the last hundred years at the Observatory, including the people, instruments, and methods involved in advancing high angular resolution astronomy. Additionally, two extensive Appendices cover the importance of Mount Wilson today as well as an interferometry primer. It is an excellent book for historians, astronomers and anyone interested in Mount Wilson. 
521 |a Historians, astronomy students and researchers, instrumentalists. 
530 |a Also available in print. 
538 |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
538 |a System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. 
545 |a Harold A McAlister is regents professor emeritus of astronomy at Georgia State University where he founded the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) in 1983 and served as its director until he retired in 2015. As principal investigator for the CHARA Array, he led the team that turned a dream into a reality when ground was broken on Mount Wilson on 1996 July 13. During 2002-2014 he served pro-bono as CEO of the Mount Wilson Institute and Director of Mount Wilson Observatory. 
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