Modern Technology and its Influence on Astronomy
Published on 26. January 1990
Book
Hardback
335 pages
978-0-521-34313-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
882 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-34313-8 (9780521343138)
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Content
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.