Overview
- Covers in a comprehensive way all of the astronomical high-angular resolution techniques that will become more and more important
- Prepares a next generation of astronomers on how to apply high-resolution techniques
- Informs readers how to achieve micro-arcsecond angular resolution
- Updates and puts in a broader context the seminal book by Boffin et al. (2001) - Astrotomography
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 439)
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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.
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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
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Astronomy at High Angular Resolution
Book Subtitle: A Compendium of Techniques in the Visible and Near-Infrared
Editors: Henri M. J. Boffin, Gaitee Hussain, Jean-Philippe Berger, Linda Schmidtobreick
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39739-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39737-5Published: 12 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81952-5Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39739-9Published: 24 August 2016
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 274
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Classical Electrodynamics, Mathematical Methods in Physics