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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
Mount Wilson Observatory > History.
Radio interferometers > California > Palomar, Mount > History.
Very long baseline interferometry > California > Palomar, Mount > History.
History of science.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 2. The Mount Wilson opportunity
  • 2.1. Go west, young man
  • 2.2. Michelson and Hale
  • 2.3. Anderson and Merrill
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 7. Closing out the 20th century
  • 7.1. Seeing double on Mount Wilson (1985-2007)
  • 7.2. The Mark III Interferometer (1987-1992)
  • 8. Into the 21st century
  • 8.1. The Infrared Spatial Interferometer (1988-present)
  • 8.2. The CHARA Array (1996-present)
  • 8.3. Afterword.

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