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Observational Astrophysics (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,)
by Pierre J. Lena
Available from Powells Used Books
$111.75
on 10-15-2008
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ISBN Number: 9783540634829
Other: Lena, Pierre
Other: Lebrun, F.
Written by: Lebrun, F.
Written by: Lena, Pierre J.
Written by: Lebrun, Francois
Written by: Lena, Pierre
Written by: Mignard, Francois
Written by: Lena, P.
Written by: Lyle, S.
Written by: Mignard, F.
Published by: Springer
Location: Berlin ;
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Astronomy
Subject: Astrophysics
Subject: Star Observation
Subject: Neutrinos
Subject: Astronomical instruments
Subject: Electromagnetic radiation
Subject: Gravitational waves
Subject: Astronomy, General
Subject: modern image detectors
Subject: observational astrophysics
Subject: spatial interferometry
Copyright: 1998
Edition Number: 2
Edition Description: 2nd rev. and enlarged ed.
Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,
Date of Publication: October 1998
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 512
Book Size: 946x632x95 191
Written specifically for physicists and graduate students, this textbook focuses on fundamental and sometimes practical limitations on the ultimate performance that an astronomical system may reach, rather than presenting particular systems in detail. This second edition has been entirely restructured and almost doubled in size, in order to improve its clarity and to account for the great progress achieved in the last 15 years. It deals with ground-based and space-based astronomy and their respective fields. It presents the new generation of giant ground-based telescopes, with the new methods of optical interferometry and adaptive optics. But it also presents the ambitious concepts behind space missions aimed for the next decades. Avoiding particulars, it covers the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum, and touches upon the "new astronomies" becoming possible with gravitational waves and neutrinos.
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