Experimental astrophysics /

We are now living in the multimessenger era in which often weak and elusive astrophysical phenomena need to be studied using different and orthogonal probes and information carriers in order to be fully understood. This book is designed to give advanced undergraduate students a description of the mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Battistelli, Elia Stefano (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 21.
AAS-IOP astronomy. 2021 collection.
Temas:
Astrophysics > Technique.
Astrophysics > Experiments.
Astronomical instruments.
Astronomical observation - observatories, equipment & methods.
AAS: Instrumentation, Software, Laboratory Astrophysics, and Data.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Astrophysical observables
  • 1.1. Astrophysical information carriers
  • 1.2. Cosmic rays
  • 1.3. Meteorites
  • 1.4. Cosmic dust
  • 1.5. Gravitational waves
  • 1.6. Neutrinos
  • 1.7. Dark matter
  • 2. Astronomical optics
  • 2.1. Electromagnetic waves
  • 2.2. Observables
  • 2.3. Geometrical optics : Snell's law
  • 2.4. Lenses and mirrors
  • 2.5. Diffraction and interference
  • 3. Telescopes
  • 3.1. Diffraction-limited telescopes or not?
  • 3.2. Refractive telescopes
  • 3.3. Reflective telescopes
  • 3.4. Telescope mounts
  • 3.5. Telescopes construction
  • 3.6. X-ray telescopes
  • 4. Signal processing
  • 4.1. Fourier transform
  • 4.2. Transmission lines
  • 4.3. Digital versus analog signals : ADC and DAC
  • 4.4. Quantization
  • 4.5. Sampling : Nyquist-Shannon theorem
  • 5. Semiconductor Physics
  • 5.1. Semiconductors and junctions
  • 5.2. Diodes
  • 5.3. Photomultipliers and their use in astrophysics
  • 5.4. Junction-gate field-effect transistors
  • 5.5. Transistors
  • 5.6. Operational amplifier
  • 6. Detectors in astronomy
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Coherent detectors
  • 6.3. Thermal detectors
  • 6.4. Quantum detectors
  • 6.5. X-ray detectors
  • 6.6. Detector characteristics
  • 7. Read-out electronics
  • 7.1. Read-out electronics
  • 7.2. Multiplexing
  • 7.3. Read-out of a CCD
  • 7.4. Feedback loop
  • 8. Noise and its origin
  • 8.1. Autocorrelation function and power spectrum
  • 8.2. Brownian noise
  • 8.3. Kinds of noise
  • 9. Cryogenics
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Cryogens (liquids)
  • 9.3. Thermal inputs
  • 9.4. Vacuum pumps
  • 9.5. Cryostats and their cool down
  • 9.6. Mechanical cryocoolers
  • 9.7. Sub-kelvin refrigerators
  • 10. Spectroscopy
  • 10.1. The importance of spectroscopy
  • 10.2. Broadband photometry
  • 10.3. Prism
  • 10.4. Grating
  • 10.5. Fourier transform spectrometer
  • 11. Polarization
  • 11.1. The importance of polarization measurements
  • 11.2. Stokes parameters
  • 11.3. Polarization at radio frequencies
  • 11.4. Polarization at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths
  • 11.5. Optical polarization
  • 11.6. X-ray polarization
  • 11.7. Martin-Pupplet interferometer
  • 12. Signal extraction from noise and calibration
  • 12.1. Signal extraction from noise : filters and amplifiers
  • 12.2. Modulation
  • 12.3. Lock-in amplifiers
  • 12.4. Modulations in astrophysics
  • 12.5. CCD calibration.

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