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 ...
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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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Very Good. Issued without jacket. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" 328pp. Illustrated. Text clean and bright, binding tight, covers clean. "This book gives a comprehensive and unified view of observational methods in modern astrophysics. It discusses the collection of information from astronomical sources by telescopes covering the electromagnetic spectrum from gamma rays to radio waves. Also treated are radiation detectors, fundamental physical limits on sensitivity and resolution, and methods of data processing. Developments in spatial interferometry, detector science and image restoration methods are presented. The level is appropriate for graduate students and researchers in astrophysics or in engineering."
