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  title info:
    title: Astrophysical techniques
  name:
    name part: Kitchin, C. R. (Christopher R.)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Taylor & Francis
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: flu
    date issued: 2020
    edition: Seventh edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 449 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Long used in undergraduate and introductory graduate courses, Astrophysical Techniques, Seventh Edition provides an accessible yet comprehensive account of the innovate instruments, detectors, and techniques employed in astronomy and astrophysics. Emphasizing the underlying unity of all astronomical observations, this popular textbook provides a coherent state-of-the-art account of the instruments and techniques used in current astronomy and astrophysics. Fully updated throughout, this seventh edition builds upon the sixth edition, covering improved techniques and cutting-edge methods in the field, as well as other exciting new developments in gravitational waves, dark matter and energy, the use of photonics, and astronomy education and outreach, in addition to further detailed discussions on the latest scientific instruments and individual detectors. The book is written in a very accessible manner, and most of the mathematics is accessible to those who have attended a mathematics course in their final years at school. Nevertheless, the treatment of the topics in general is at a sufficiently high level to be of use to those professionals seeking technical information in areas of astronomy with which they might not be completely familiar. Key Features: Details the instrumentation and theory of astronomical observations, including radio waves, gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos, gravitational waves and dark matter and energy and more Presents the background theory and operating practice of state-of-the-art detectors and instruments Fully updated to contain the latest technology and research developments
  table of contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Author -- Chapter 1: Detectors -- 1.1 Optical Detection -- 1.1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.2 Detector Types -- 1.1.3 The Eye -- 1.1.4 Semiconductors -- 1.1.4.1 The Photoelectric Effect -- 1.1.5 A Detector Index -- 1.1.6 Detector Parameters -- 1.1.7 Cryostats -- 1.1.8 Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) -- 1.1.8.1 CCDs -- 1.1.8.2 Charge Injection Devices (CIDs) -- 1.1.8.3 CCDs -- The Future -- 1.1.9 Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs) -- 1.1.9.1 Photodiodes -- 1.1.9.2 Avalanche Photodiode
  table of contents: 1.1.9.3 Single Photon Avalanche Photodiodes -- 1.1.10 Photography -- 1.1.11 Photomultipliers (PMTs) -- 1.1.12 Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) Detectors -- 1.1.13 Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) or Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) -- 1.1.14 Future Possibilities -- 1.1.15 Infrared Detectors -- 1.1.15.1 Photoconductive Cells -- 1.1.15.2 Bolometers -- 1.1.15.3 Other Types of Detectors -- 1.1.15.4 Astronomical Applications -- 1.1.16 Ultraviolet Detectors -- 1.1.16.1 Applications -- 1.1.17 Noise, Uncertainties, Errors, Precision and Accuracy -- 1.1.17.1 Intrinsic Noise
  table of contents: 1.1.17.2 Signal Noise -- 1.1.17.3 Digitisation -- 1.1.17.4 Errors and Uncertainties in Data Reduction, Analysis, and Presentation -- 1.1.18 Telescopes -- 1.1.18.1 Telescopes from the Beginning -- 1.1.18.2 Optical Theory -- 1.1.19 Telescope Designs -- 1.1.19.1 Background -- 1.1.19.2 Designs -- 1.1.20 Telescopes in Space -- 1.1.21 Mountings -- 1.1.22 Real-Time Atmospheric Compensation -- 1.1.22.1 Sampling System -- 1.1.22.2 Wavefront Sensing -- 1.1.22.3 Wavefront Correction -- 1.1.23 Future Developments -- 1.1.24 Observing Domes, Enclosures and Sites -- 1.2 Radio and Microwave Detection
  table of contents: 1.2.1 Introduction -- 1.2.2 Detectors and Receivers -- 1.2.2.1 Detectors -- 1.2.2.2 Receivers -- 1.2.3 Radio Telescopes -- 1.2.3.1 Construction -- 1.2.3.2 Future -- 1.3 X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detection -- 1.3.1 Introduction -- 1.3.2 Detectors -- 1.3.2.1 Geiger Counters -- 1.3.2.2 Proportional Counters -- 1.3.2.3 Scintillation Detectors -- 1.3.2.4 Pair Production Detectors -- 1.3.2.5 Gas Scintillation Proportional Counters -- 1.3.2.6 Compton Interaction Detectors -- 1.3.2.7 Solid-State Detectors -- 1.3.2.8 Microchannel Plates -- 1.3.2.9 Cerenkov Detectors -- 1.3.2.10 Future Possibilities
  table of contents: 1.3.3 Shielding -- 1.3.4 Imaging -- 1.3.4.1 Collimation -- 1.3.4.2 Coincidence Detectors -- 1.3.4.3 Occultation -- 1.3.4.4 Reflecting Telescopes -- 1.3.5 Resolution and Image Identification -- 1.3.6 Spectroscopy -- 1.3.6.1 Grating Spectrometers -- 1.3.6.2 Bragg Spectrometers -- 1.3.7 Polarimetry -- 1.3.8 Observing Platforms -- 1.4 Cosmic Ray Detectors -- 1.4.1 Background -- 1.4.2 Detectors -- 1.4.2.1 Real-Time Methods -- 1.4.2.2 Residual Track Detectors -- 1.4.2.3 Indirect Detectors -- 1.4.3 Arrays -- 1.4.4 Correction Factors -- 1.4.4.1 Atmospheric Effects -- 1.4.4.2 Solar Effects
  note: C.R. Kitchin.
  note: 1.4.4.3 Terrestrial Magnetic Field
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Chris is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Hertfordshire and a freelance writer of astrophysics text books. From 1987 to 2001 he was Director of the University's Observatory at Bayfordbury and from 1996 to 2001 also Head of the Division of Physics and Astronomy. He took early retirement in 2001 in order to concentrate on his writing interests. Chris has written sixteen books as sole author and contributed to another dozen or so, as well as writing hundreds of articles covering interests ranging from popular to specialist research.
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Astronomical instruments
  subject:
    topic: Imaging systems in astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysique
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Astronomie
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Astronomie
    topic: Instruments
  subject:
    topic: Imagerie en astronomie
  subject:
    topic: astronomical instruments
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Astrophysics & Space Science
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomical instruments
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Imaging systems in astronomy
  classification: QB461 .K57 2020eb
  classification: 522
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