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. Ed(S): Foy, Renaud; Foy, Francoise Claude - Optics in Astrophysics - 9781402034350 - V9781402034350
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Optics in Astrophysics

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Description for Optics in Astrophysics Hardback. Offers reviews of detectors and spectrographs. This book addresses ways to handle photons, based on quantum physics. It provides two reviews about wavefront processing and about image restoration and deconvolution algorithms for ill conditioned cases. Editor(s): Foy, Renaud; Foy, Francoise Claude. Series: NATO Science Series II. Num Pages: 438 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PGG; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 899.

Astrophysics is facing challenging aims such as deep cosmology at redshift higher than 10 to constrain cosmology models, or the detection of exoplanets, and possibly terrestrial exoplanets, and several others. It requires unprecedented ambitious R&D programs, which have definitely to rely on a tight cooperation between astrophysics and optics communities.

The book addresses most of the most critical interdisciplinary domains where they interact, or where they will do. A first need is to collect more light, i.e. telescopes still larger than the current 8-10 meter class ones. Decametric, and even hectometric, optical (from UV to IR wavelengths) telescopes are being ... Read more

Two other newcomers in observational astrophysics are interferometric arrays of optical telescopes and gravitational wave detectors. Up-to-date reviews of detectors and of spectrographs are given, as well as forefront R&D in the field of optical coatings and of guided optics. Possible new ways to handle photons are also addressed, based on quantum physics. More and more signal processing algorithms are a part and parcel of any modern instrumentation. Thus finally the book gives two reviews about wavefront processing and about image restoration and deconvolution algorithms for ill conditioned cases.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
Series
NATO Science Series II
Number of Pages
422
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402034350
SKU
V9781402034350
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