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Instrumentation for large telescopes: VII Canary Islands Winter School of ...

By Francisco Sánchez , Jose M. Rodriguez Espinosa , Artemio Herrero

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521582911, 9780521582919
LCC
QB88 .I56 1997
Open Library ID
OL680966M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5953229 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics
Pages
346\346
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Drawing from a series of lectures given at the VII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, this volume presents eight specially written chapters by leading experts in the world, covering all aspects of the peculiarities, advantages, and disadvantages of dealing with a new generation of large, ground-based telescopes that will be used well into the next century. In reviewing the challenges involved in designing successful instrumentation, this work also addresses the fundamentals of astronomical imaging, low- and high-resolution spectroscopy, and polarimetry. This book can be read profitably by advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as those in the fields of astronomy, optics, medicine, and defense.

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