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Night vision : exploring the infrared universe
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ISBN: 9781139176019 9781107024762 1139176013 9781139616287 1139616285 9781139625586 1139625586 9781299842342 1299842348 9781139612562 1139612565 1107024765 1139610708 1107236185 1139621866 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Drawing on exciting discoveries of the last forty years, Night Vision explores how infrared astronomy, an essential tool for modern astrophysics and cosmology, helps astronomers reveal our Universe's most fascinating phenomena - from the birth of stars in dense clouds of gas to black holes and distant colliding galaxies and the traffic of interstellar dust from the formation of our Solar System. While surveying the progress in infrared observation, astronomer Michael Rowan-Robinson introduces readers to the pioneering scientists and engineers who painstakingly developed infrared astronomy over the past two hundred years. Accessible and well illustrated, this comprehensive volume is written for the interested science reader, amateur astronomer or university student, while researchers in astronomy and the history of science will find Rowan-Robinson's detailed notes and references a valuable resource.


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Far infrared astronomy : proceedings of a conference held at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, on July 11th-13th, 1975
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ISBN: 0080205135 Year: 1976 Publisher: Oxford : Pergamon Press,

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Exploration of the solar system by infrared remote sensing
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ISBN: 1107135613 1280430524 9786610430529 0511179022 1139148745 051106148X 0511055153 0511330669 0511536100 0511069944 9780511061486 9780511055157 9780511536106 0521818974 9780521818971 9780521818971 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This book describes all aspects of the theory, instrumental techniques and observational results of the remote sensing of objects in our Solar System through studies of infrared radiation. Fully revised since publication of the first edition in 1992, it now incorporates the latest technologies, new mission results and scientific discoveries. It also includes a fully up-dated bibliography to reflect the advances made in this field during the past ten years. All planets from Mercury to Pluto, many of their satellites, asteroids and comets are discussed. The presentation will appeal to advanced students and professional planetary science researchers, although some chapters are of wider interest. The authors have drawn on their extensive experience at the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center to produce a definitive account of what can be learned from infrared studies of our planetary system.


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Infrared astronomy : symposium no. 96 held in Kona, Hawaii, 23-27 June, 1980
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ISBN: 9027712271 902771228X Year: 1981 Publisher: Dordrecht, Holland : ©1981 D. Reidel Publishing Company,


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More Things in the Heavens : How Infrared Astronomy Is Expanding Our View of the Universe
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ISBN: 0691191964 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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A sweeping tour of the infrared universe as seen through the eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space TelescopeAstronomers have been studying the heavens for thousands of years, but until recently much of the cosmos has been invisible to the human eye. Launched in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope has brought the infrared universe into focus as never before. Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt are among the scientists who worked for decades to bring this historic mission to life. Here is their inside story of how Spitzer continues to carry out cutting-edge infrared astronomy to help answer fundamental questions that have intrigued humankind since time immemorial: Where did we come from? How did the universe evolve? Are we alone?In this panoramic book, Werner and Eisenhardt take readers on a breathtaking guided tour of the cosmos in the infrared, beginning in our solar system and venturing ever outward toward the distant origins of the expanding universe. They explain how astronomers use the infrared to observe celestial bodies that are too cold or too far away for their light to be seen by the eye, to conduct deep surveys of galaxies as they appeared at the dawn of time, and to peer through dense cosmic clouds that obscure major events in the life cycles of planets, stars, and galaxies.Featuring many of Spitzer's spectacular images, More Things in the Heavens provides a thrilling look at how infrared astronomy is aiding the search for exoplanets and extraterrestrial life, and transforming our understanding of the history and evolution of our universe.

Infrared and submillimeter astronomy : proceedings of a symposium held in Philadelphia, Penn., U.S.A., June 8-10, 1976
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ISBN: 902770791X 940101213X 9401012113 Year: 1977 Publisher: Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co.,


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Measuring the universe : a multiwavelength perspective
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ISBN: 9780521762298 0521762294 9781139527934 1139527932 9781139525541 1139525549 9781283528344 1283528347 9780511980497 0511980493 9781139530217 1139530216 1139539582 1107224683 9786613840790 113952674X 1139531409 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Astronomy is an observational science, renewed and even revolutionized by new developments in instrumentation. With the resulting growth of multiwavelength investigation as an engine of discovery, it is increasingly important for astronomers to understand the underlying physical principles and operational characteristics for a broad range of instruments. This comprehensive text is ideal for graduate students, active researchers and instrument developers. It is a thorough review of how astronomers obtain their data, covering current approaches to astronomical measurements from radio to gamma rays. The focus is on current technology rather than the history of the field, allowing each topic to be discussed in depth. Areas covered include telescopes, detectors, photometry, spectroscopy, adaptive optics and high-contrast imaging, millimeter-wave and radio receivers, radio and optical/infrared interferometry, and X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, all at a level that bridges the gap between the basic principles of optics and the subject's abundant specialist literature. Color versions of figures and solutions to selected problems are available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521762298.


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The far infraRed and submillimetre universe : an ESA symposium devoted to the far infraRed and submillimetre telescope (FIRST) mission : 15-17 April 1997, Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Grenoble, France
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ISSN: 03796566 ISBN: 9290922877 9789290922872 Year: 1997 Volume: 401 Publisher: Noordwijk : ESA publications division,

Infrared astronomy : IV Canary Islands winter school of astrophysics

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What do we understand of the birth and death of stars? What is the nature of the tiny dust grains that permeate our Galaxy and other galaxies? And how likely is the existence of brown dwarfs, extrasolar planets or other sub-stellar mass objects? These are just a few of the questions that can now be addressed in a new era of infrared observations. IR astronomy has been revolutionised over the past few years by the widespread availability of large, very sensitive IR arrays and the success of IR satellites (IRAS in particular). Several IR space missions due for launch over the next few years promise an exciting future too. For these reasons, the IV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics was dedicated to this burgeoning field. Its primary goal was to introduce graduate students and researchers from other areas to the important new observations and physical ideas that are emerging in this wide-ranging field of research. Lectures from nine leading researchers, renowned for their teaching abilities, are gathered in this volume. These nine chapters provide an excellent introduction as well as a thorough and up-to-date review of developments - essential reading for graduate students entering IR astronomy, and professionals from other areas who realise the importance that IR astronomy may have on their research.


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ISO beyond point sources : studies of extended infrared emission workshop : ISO DATA centre, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain, 14-17 September 1999
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ISBN: 9290926619 9789290926610 Year: 2000 Volume: 455 Publisher: Noordwijk : ESA publications division,

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