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Astronomy at High Angular Resolution, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
A Compendium of Techniques in the Visible and Near-Infrared
Astrophysics and Space Science Library Series, Vol. 439
Coordinators: Boffin Henri M. J., Hussain Gaitee, Berger Jean-Philippe, Schmidtobreick Linda
Language: EnglishSubjects for Astronomy at High Angular Resolution:
Keywords
AGN reverberation; Adaptive optics; Astronomical Instrumentation; Astronomical high-resolution techniques; Astrotomography; Doppler Tomography; Interferometry in astronomy; Milli- and micro-arcsecond imaging; Observational techniques; Stokes Imaging; stellar surface interferometry; visible and near-IR astronomy; visible and near-IR observations
Publication date: 09-2016
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 06-2018
Support: Print on demand
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This book offers an essential compendium of astronomical high-resolution techniques. Recent years have seen considerable developments in such techniques, which are critical to advances in many areas of astronomy. As reflected in the book, these techniques can be divided into direct methods, interferometry, and reconstruction methods, and can be applied to a huge variety of astrophysical systems, ranging from planets, single stars and binaries to active galactic nuclei, providing angular resolution in the micro- to tens of milliarcsecond scales. Written by experts in their fields, the chapters cover adaptive optics, aperture masking imaging, spectra disentangling, interferometry, lucky imaging, Roche tomography, imaging with interferometry, interferometry of AGN, AGN reverberation mapping, Doppler- and magnetic imaging of stellar surfaces, Doppler tomography, eclipse mapping, Stokes imaging, and stellar tomography.
This book is intended to enable a next generation of astronomers to apply high-resolution techniques. It informs readers on how to achieve the best angular resolution in the visible and near-infrared regimes from diffraction-limited to micro-arcsecond scales.