Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT
. Ed(S): Adamson, Andy; Davies, John; Robson, E. Ian
These are the proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the UKIRT, the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope.
The volume comprises 31 professional level papers. The first part of the book has 10 thorough reviews of the conception, design and build of the telescope, as well as accounts of some its key instruments such as IRCAM (the common-user infrared camera), CGS4 (the fourth Cooled Grating Spectrometer) and the Wide Field Camera. The second part of the book comprises 14 reviews of scientific achievements during its twenty years of ... Read more
The authors are all experts in their respective fields, for example instrument scientists, operations staff and leading astronomers.
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