Modern technology and its influence on astronomy

著者

• Wall, J. V.
• Boksenberg, Alec

書誌事項

Modern technology and its influence on astronomy

edited by J.V. Wall and A. Boksenberg

Cambridge University Press, 1990

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book collects contributions made at a meeting on astronomical instrumentation held at the Royal Greenwich Observatory to mark the seventieth birthday of Robert Hanbury Brown. Twenty-five contributors describe the impact of instrumentation on the advancement of astronomy today. The topics covered include radio interferometry and VLBI; optical interferometry; new technology telescopes; electronic detectors; image processing; and the Hubble Space Telescope. The book is a valuable synthesis of current thought and will be useful to observational astronomers generally.

目次

• Preface
• Part I. Introduction: 1. Robert Hanbury Brown A. C. B. Lovell
• 2. Interferometers and aperture synthesis F. Graham Smith
• Part II. High Angular Radio Resolution: 3. Aperture synthesis and the microwave background A. Hewish
• 4. VLBI from ground and space R. T. Schilizzi
• 5. Radio-linked interferometers J. G. Davies
• 6. Millimetre interferometry D. Downes
• 7. Radio image processing A. C. S. Readhead
• Part III. High Angular Optimal Resolution: 8. Quantum effects in high angular resolution astronomy J. C. Dainty
• 9. The Sydney stellar interferometry programme J. Davis
• 10. Speckle masking, speckle spectroscopy and optical aperture synthesis G. Weigelt
• 11. Optical aperture synthesis J. E. Baldwin
• 12. High resolution imaging on La Palma J. E. Nordan
• Part IV. Developments in Optical Telescopes: 13. Large mirrors J. R. P. Angel
• 14. Wide field telescopes and high redshift QSO surveys C. Hazard
• 15. The ESO 16m VLT L. Woltjer
• 16. The Hubble Space Telescope G. Illingworth
• Part V. Developments in Optical Instrumentation: 17. The low dispersion survey spectrograph K. Taylor
• 18. Correction of atmospheric dispersion C. G. Wynne and S. P. Worwick
• 19. Image photon counting A. Boksenberg
• 20. Developments in solid state detectors C. D. MacKay
• 21. The use of CCDs on optical telescopes P. R. Jorden
• 22. On-line data handling P. T. Wallace
• Part VI. Conclusion: 23. Modern technology and its influence on astronomers V. Radhakrishnan
• 24. Concluding remarks R. H. Brown
• Index.

「Nielsen BookData」 より

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA07820221
• ISBN:
  • 0521343135
• LCCN: 88025828
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge [Cambridgshire] ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 323 p.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QB84.5
  • DC19 : 522.2
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Astronomical instruments -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Brown, R. Hanbury (Robert Hanbury) -- Congresses