High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, 9-19 April 1996: v. 501 (NATO Science Series: C: Mathematical & Physical Sciences) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792347676 ISBN 13: 9780792347675

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

Since the 1980s many efforts have been made to develop high angular resolution techniques in astrophysics. Combined with imaging facilities, they have rapidly proved their efficiency and have led to major astrophysical results. From the 2000s, astronomers will be offered new, even more sophisticated high angular resolution tools, especially in the IR and optical domains, coupled with much bigger telescopes, either on the ground or in space. In such a context of rapidly evolving techniques and a growing need for higher angular resolution to test theories or discover new objects, this book reviews both instrumental and scientific aspects. The main questions addressed are: what kind of science will benefit from high angular resolution techniques?; and how can they best be used? The book should be accessible to students and research workers in both instrumental and astrophysical aspects.

About this title

About the Author

Serge Brunier is an awardwinning science journalist and author of the best-selling "The Great Atlas of the Stars,"

Anne-Marie Lagrange is a prominent astrophysicist associated with the Observatoire de Grenoble, France.

Catherine Cesarsky is the Director General of the European Southern Observatory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792347676
• ISBN 13: 9780792347675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420
• Editor: Lagrange Anne-Marie, Etc.