Optics in Astrophysics: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Optics in Astrophysics, Cargèse, France from 16 to 28 September 2002

Author:   Renaud Foy ,  Françoise Claude Foy
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2005 ed.
Volume:   198
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9781402034350


Pages:   422
Publication Date:   07 December 2005
Format:   Hardback
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Astrophysics is facing challenging aims such as deep cosmology at redshift higher than 10 to constrain cosmology models, or the detection of exoplanets, and possibly terrestrial exoplanets, and several others. It requires unprecedented ambitious R&D programs, which have definitely to rely on a tight cooperation between astrophysics and optics communities. The book addresses most of the most critical interdisciplinary domains where they interact, or where they will do. A first need is to collect more light, i.e. telescopes still larger than the current 8-10 meter class ones. Decametric, and even hectometric, optical (from UV to IR wavelengths) telescopes are being studied. Whereas up to now the light collecting surface of new telescopes was approximately 4 times that of the previous generation, now this factor is growing to 10 to 100. This quantum leap urges to implement new methods or technologies developed in the optics community, both in academic labs and in the industry. Given the astrophysical goals and technological constraints, new generation adaptive optics with a huge number of actuators and laser guide stars devices have to be developed, from theoretical bases to experimental works. Two other newcomers in observational astrophysics are interferometric arrays of optical telescopes and gravitational wave detectors. Up-to-date reviews of detectors and of spectrographs are given, as well as forefront R&D in the field of optical coatings and of guided optics. Possible new ways to handle photons are also addressed, based on quantum physics. More and more signal processing algorithms are a part and parcel of any modern instrumentation. Thus finally the book gives two reviews about wavefront processing and about image restoration and deconvolution algorithms for ill conditioned cases.

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Author:   Renaud Foy ,  Françoise Claude Foy
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2005 ed.
Volume:   198
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.903kg
ISBN:  

9781402034350


ISBN 10:   1402034350
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   07 December 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

CONSTRAINTS OF GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS: THE ATMOSPHERE.- INTERFERENCES.- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES.- MODERN OPTICAL DESIGN.- STRUCTURAL MECHANICS.- SEGMENTED MIRROR TELESCOPES.- HECTOMETRIC OPTICAL TELESCOPES ESO'S 100-M OWL TELESCOPE CONCEPT.- OPTICAL FABRICATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL TELESCOPES, TERRESTRIAL AND SPACE.- OPTICAL TESTING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL TELESCOPES.- MOEMS, MICRO-OPTICS FOR ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION.- OPTICAL AND INFRARED DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY.- SPECTROSCOPY.- ADAPTIVE OPTICS; PRINCIPLES, PERFORMANCE AND CHALLENGES.- LASER TECHNOLOGIES FOR LASER GUIDED ADAPTIVE OPTICS.- LASER GUIDE STARS: PRINCIPLE, CONE EFFECT AND TILT MEASUREMENT.- INTERFEROMETRY.- GUIDED OPTICS FOR STELLAR INTERFEROMETRY.- AN INTRODUCTION TO GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE ASTRONOMY.- COATINGS PRINCIPLES.- CLASSICAL PROPERTIES OF CONTINUOUSWAVE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS.- AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM OPTICS.- ATOM INTERFEROMETRY.- AMPLITUDE AND PHASE DETECTION OF INCOHERENT SOURCE.- STATISTICAL WAVEFRONT SENSING.- TOIMAGE RECONSTRUCTION AND INVERSE PROBLEMS.

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