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Infrared Astronomy with Arrays: The Next Generation

By Judith L. Pipher (auth.) , Ian S. McLean (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1994
ISBN
978-94-010-4466-0, 978-94-011-1070-9
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-1070-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33951294 bytes)
Series
Astrophysics and Space Science Library 190
Edition
1
Pages
572\606
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
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Description

The idea for another conference on the theme of Infrared Astronomy with Arrays actually goes back to March 1987. At a party held in my home at the end of the Hilo conference, excitement was running high and everyone present was in favor of another meeting. I recall suggesting to Al Fowler that the next meeting could be in Tucson. Despite Al's reply to the effect that Hawaii was a much nicer location, a meeting was held in Tucson three years later. That meeting focussed more on the astrophysics which had been accomplished with the detectors, rather than on techniques and methods. However, it was already apparent in February of 1990 that a new generation of larger m arrays would soon supersede the 64x64 class of devices and so, having just moved from the UK Infrared Telescope unit in Hawaii to join with Eric Becklin in his move to UCLA, it seemed to me that another Hilo-style conference was appropriate, and Eric agreed.

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