
Aperture Synthesis
Methods and Applications to Optical Astronomy
Swapan Kumar Saha(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXIII, 466 pages
978-1-4614-2702-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book deals with the fundamentals of stellar interferometry with emphasis on aperture synthesis using sparse array of telescopes particularly at optical/IR wavelengths, the origin, properties, and optical effects of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere, techniques developed to overcome image degradation. Studded with more than one hundred and fifty illustrations and tens of footnotes, it addresses the basic tricks of trade, current trend, motivation, methods, and path to future promise of true interferometry both from the ground and space. Also discussed are the technical challenge involved, such as beam transportation and recombination, detecting fringes using modern sensors, and image synthesis. Astronomical science that benefits from aperture synthesis imaging are highlighted as well.
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Product info
Previously published in hardcover
Series
Edition
2011 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Graduate
Illustrations
XXIII, 466 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
739 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4614-2702-5 (9781461427025)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-5710-8
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Person
Professor S. K. Saha is with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bangalore, India. He has spent one year (1988-89) at the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (formerly C.E.R.G.A) in Caussols, France. During this year he conducted research on the high angular features of stars, using the long baseline topical interferometer with a pair of 1.5 meter telescopes. He has a strong interest in Experimental Physics and has developed various equipment in the area. He is the author of the book Diffraction-Limited Imaging with Large and Moderate Telescopes (World Scientific, 2007). Another book, 21st Century Astrophysics (Anita Publications, 2005, with V. K. Rastogi (Ed.)) was brought out to commemorate Einstein's "Year of Miracles," which contains a set of articles written by reputed scientists working at the various laboratories across the Globe. Saha has edited a special issue of Asian J. Physics on 'Astrophysics" in 2004.
Content
Preface.- Principal Symbols.- List of Acronyms.- Introduction to Wave Optics.- Principles of Interference.- Applications of Interferometry.- Single-dish Diffraction-limited Imaging.- Basic Tools and Technical Challenges.- Discrete-element Interferometers.- Image Recovery.- Astronomy with Diluted Aperture Interferometry.- Appendix A: Transfer Function of an Optical System.- Appendix B: Fourier Optics.- Appendix C: Spatial Frequency Response.- Appendix D: Zernike Representation of Atmospheric Turbulence.- Appendix E: Celestial Coordinate System.- References.- Index.