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Fundamentals of astrometry
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ISBN: 9780521173315 9781139106832 9780521642163 9781139116121 1139116126 1283295431 9781283295437 9781139126786 1139126784 113911395X 9781139113953 113910683X 0521642167 0521173310 1107142555 9786613295439 1139121863 1139111760 9781107142558 6613295434 9781139121866 9781139111768 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Astrometry encompasses all that is necessary to provide the positions and motions of celestial bodies. This includes observational techniques, instrumentation, processing and analysis of observational data, reference systems and frames, and the resulting astronomical phenomena. Astrometry is fundamental to all other fields of astronomy, from the pointing of telescopes, to navigation and guidance systems, to distance and motion determinations for astrophysics. In the last few decades, new observational techniques have enabled improvements in accuracy by orders of magnitude. Starting from basic principles, this 2004 book provides the fundamentals for this new astrometry at milli- and micro-arcsecond accuracies. Topics include: basics of general relativity; co-ordinate systems; vectors, tensors, quaternions, and observational uncertainties; determination and use of the celestial and terrestrial reference systems and frames; applications of new observational techniques; present and future star catalogues and double star astrometry. This comprehensive reference will be invaluable for graduate students and research astronomers.

The role of VLBI in astrophysics, astrometry, and geodesy
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ISBN: 1402018754 9786610413539 1280413530 1402024061 1402018762 Year: 2004 Volume: 135 Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic,

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A masterly survey of the last 13 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry, reviewed in light of the most advanced astronomical observations. Topics covered include: Nonthermal emission from extragalactic radio sources; Principles of synchrotron emission in relation to astrophysics; Theory of relativistic jets; Young, powerful radio sources and their evolution; Scintillation in extragalactic radio sources; Radio and optical interferometry; Radio polarimetry; Unified schemes; Deep fields; Tropospheric and ionospheric phase calibration; Supernovae; VLBI for geodesy and geodynamics.

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