Observational Astrophysics /
Written specifically for physicists and graduate students in astronomy, this textbook focuses on astronomical observation and on the basic physical principles that astronomers use to conceive, build and exploit their instruments at their ultimate limits in sensitivity or resolution. This second edit...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1998.
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| Series: | Astronomy and astrophysics library.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Written specifically for physicists and graduate students in astronomy, this textbook focuses on astronomical observation and on the basic physical principles that astronomers use to conceive, build and exploit their instruments at their ultimate limits in sensitivity or resolution. This second edition has been entirely restructured and almost doubled in size, in order to improve its clarity and to account for the great progress achieved in the last 15 years. It deals with ground-based and space-based astronomy and their respective fields. It presents the new generation of giant ground-based telescopes, with the new methods of optical interferometry and adaptive optics, and also the ambitious concepts behind planned space missions for the next decades. Avoiding particulars, it covers the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum, and touches upon the "new astronomies" becoming possible with gravitational waves and neutrinos. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 512 pages 254 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9783662036853 (electronic bk.) 3662036851 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0941-7834 |