Modern technology and its influence on astronomy

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Modern technology and its influence on astronomy

edited by J.V. Wall and A. Boksenberg

Cambridge University Press, 1990

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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.

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