Measuring the universe : a multiwavelength perspective /
"Astronomy is an observational science, renewed and even revolutionized by new developments in instrumentation. With the resulting growth of multiwavelength investigation as an engine of discovery, it is increasingly important for astronomers to understand the underlying physical principles and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Radiometry, optics, statistics
- Telescopes
- Detectors for the ultraviolet through the infrared
- Optical and infrared imaging; astrometry
- Photometry and polarimetry
- Spectroscopy
- Adaptive optics and high-contrast imaging
- Submillimeter and radio astronomy
- Interferometry and aperture synthesis
- X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy
- Epilogue: Cosmic rays, neutrinos, gravitational waves
- Appendix A. Useful constants
- Appendix B. Common Fourier transforms and relations.