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Surveying the Skies : How Astronomers Map the Universe.
Since the time of Galileo, astronomy has been driven by technological innovation. With each major advance has come the opportunity and enthusiasm to survey the sky in a way that was not possible before. It is these surveys of discovery that are the subject of this book. In the first few chapters the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing,
2016.
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| Colección: | Astronomers' universe.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Five Eras of Astronomy; 1.2 Defining a Survey; 2 The Naked Eye Era; 2.1 The Babylonians and the Mul. Apin Tablets; 2.2 The Greeks: Aristotle, Hipparchus, and Ptolemy; 2.3 Islamic Astronomy; 2.4 Chinese Astronomy; 2.5 Tycho Brahe; 3 The Telescope Era; 3.1 Surveying the Solar System; 3.2 Halley, Flamsteed and Navigation; 3.3 Messier, Herschel, and Nebulae; 3.4 Variable Stars and Photometry; 3.5 Moving Stars; 3.6 The BD Catalog; 4 The Photography Era; 4.1 Carte du Ciel; 4.2 Harvard Plate Collection; 4.3 Schmidt Camera Surveys.
- 4.4 Harvard Spectroscopic Survey5 Radio Surveys; 5.1 Jansky and Reber; 5.2 Post World War II Radio Astronomy; 5.3 The Big Bang Controversy; 5.4 Recent Radio Surveys; 5.5 The Pulsar Discovery Survey; 5.6 The 21-cm Spectral Line; 5.7 Molecules in the Milky Way; 5.8 Searching for ET; 6 Infrared Surveys; 6.1 The Caltech TMSS Survey; 6.2 2MASS and DENIS; 6.3 The AFGL survey; 6.4 IRAS; 6.5 AKARI and WISE; 6.6 UKIDSS and VISTA; 6.7 SCUBA-2; 7 The Cosmic Microwave Background; 7.1 Discovery of the CMB; 7.2 COBE; 7.3 Mapping the Fluctuations in the CMB; 7.4 The Planck Spacecraft; 8 Ultraviolet Surveys.
- 8.1 TD-1A8.2 GALEX; 8.3 Extreme Ultraviolet Surveys; 9 X-ray Surveys; 9.1 Early Discoveries; 9.2 UHURU and HEAO-A; 9.3 Neutron Stars and Black Holes; 9.4 ROSAT; 10 Gamma Ray Surveys; 10.1 Early Surveys; 10.2 COS-B; 10.3 Compton and Fermi Satellites; 10.4 Gamma Ray Bursts; 10.5 Very High Energy Gamma Rays; 11 Space Astrometry; 11.1 Hipparcos; 11.2 Gaia; 12 The CCD Era; 12.1 Sloan Digital Sky Survey; 12.2 Pan-STARRS; 12.3 Asteroid Searches; 12.4 LSST; 13 Microsurveys; 13.1 Hubble Deep Fields; 13.2 The COSMOS Survey; 13.3 The MACHO Survey; 13.4 The Kepler Exoplanet Survey.
- 14 Accessing Astronomy SurveysAppendices; A.1 Further Reading; A.2 Units; A.3 Wavelength and Energy; A.4 Diffraction Limit; A.5 Precession; A.6 Stellar Magnitudes; A.7 Coordinate Systems; A.8 Interstellar Extinction and Reddening; A.9 Radiation, Temperature, and Wavelength; A.10 Redshift-Age Relationship; A.11 Determining the Properties of an Exoplanet; Index.