Infrared astronomy : seeing the heat : from William Herschel to the Herschel Space Observatory / David L. Clements, Imperial College London, UK.
- Author:
- Clements, David L., 1964-
- Published:
- Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2015
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 266 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.1.Redder Than Red -- 1.2.The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- 1.3.Thermal Radiation -- 1.4.Spectral Lines And Quantum Mechanics -- 1.5.The Stuff Of The Universe -- 1.6.A Very Brief History Of The Universe -- 1.7.The Practical: Telescopes -- 1.8.Observational Stars -- 1.8.1.Ground-Based Telescopes -- 1.8.2.Space-Based Observatories -- 1.9.Conclusions -- 2.1.The Pasty Detector -- 2.2.The History Of Astronomy: The History Of Detection -- 2.3.Astrophotography -- 2.4.Making Electrons From Photons -- 2.5.The Digital Age -- 2.6.Into The Infrared -- 2.7.Longer Wavelengths -- 2.8.Into The Radio -- 2.9.The Enemy: What Gets In The Way -- 2.10.Defeating The Enemy: Climb A Mountain -- 2.11.Fly A Plane, Float A Balloon, Build A Rocket -- 2.12.The Other Enemy: Backgrounds -- 2.13.Conclusions -- 3.1.The Great Collision Of 1994 -- 3.2.Local Geography: A Tour Of The Solar System -- 3.3.Infrared Astronomy In The Solar System -- 3.4.Planets - Peering Through Clouds, Studying Atmospheres -- 3.5.Moons: Icy, Volcanic, Smoggy -- 3.6.Asteroids -- 3.7.Comets -- 3.8.The Outer Solar System And The Problem Of Pluto -- 3.9.The Formation And Early Evolution Of The Solar System -- 3.10.The Discovery Of Exoplanets -- 3.11.Characterising Exoplanets -- 3.12.Conclusions -- 4.1.The Star-Filled Skies -- 4.2.The Main Sequence -- 4.3.The Life Of Stars -- 4.4.The Sizes Of Stars -- 4.5.Beyond The Bottom Of The Main Sequence -- 4.6.When Is A Star Not A Star? When It's A Free Floating Planet -- 4.7.The Remnants Of Planet Formation -- 4.8.Ageing Stars, Losing Weight -- 4.9.Stellar Death -- 4.10.Supernovae -- 4.11.Conclusions -- 5.1.Holes In The Sky -- 5.2.Introduction -- 5.3.The Interstellar Medium -- 5.4.From Giant Molecular Clouds To Collapsing Cores -- 5.5.Protostars To Stars - The Big Picture -- 5.6.Planet Formation -- 5.7.Protostars: The Observations -- 5.8.Groups And Binaries -- 5.9.High Mass Stars -- 5.10.The Origin Of The Initial Mass Function -- 5.11.Conclusion -- 6.1.Forgetting To Breathe -- 6.2.Galaxies - Stars And So Much More -- 6.3.Galaxies Across The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- 6.4.M31: Our Nearest Neighbour -- 6.5.The IRAS Revolution -- 6.6.The Normal Universe -- 6.7.The Active Galaxy Menagerie -- 6.8.AGN Unification -- 6.9.Galaxies And AGN -- 6.10.Starburst Galaxies -- 6.11.Galaxy Mergers -- 6.12.Conclusion -- 7.1.Launch Day -- 7.2.Galaxy Evolution -- 7.3.Galaxy Evolution In The Optical -- 7.4.Redder Fields, Higher Redshifts -- 7.5.The Most Distant Galaxies Known -- 7.6.The Cosmic Infrared Background -- 7.7.Scuba And Submillimetre Galaxies -- 7.8.Submillimetre Galaxies At Other Wavelengths -- 7.9.The HDF850.1 Story -- 7.10.The Herschel Revolution -- 7.11.The Most Distant Dusty Galaxies -- 7.12.Galaxies As Telescopes -- 7.13.ALMA - The Next Revolution -- 7.14.Conclusions -- 8.1.Not Even Wrong -- 8.2.Introduction -- 8.3.The Discovery Of The CMB -- 8.4.The Evidence For The Big Bang -- 8.5.A Brief History Of The Universe -- 8.6.The Search For Anisotropy -- 8.7.Noise In The Darkness -- 8.8.The Numbers That Make A Universe -- 8.9.CMB Observations -- 8.10.The Planck Revolution -- 8.11.The Planck View Of The Universe -- 8.12.CMB Anomalies -- 8.13.Prospects For The Future -- 8.14.Conclusions -- 9.1.The Dawn Of A New Machine -- 9.2.What Remains To Be Done -- 9.3.Space vs. Ground -- 9.4.The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) -- 9.5.Other Giant Telescopes -- 9.6.The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) -- 9.7.The Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) -- 9.8.The Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) -- 9.9.The Space Infrared Telescope For Cosmology And Astrophysics (SPICA) -- 9.10.Euclid -- 9.11.Core/Prism -- 9.12.Astronomy As Data Science -- 9.13.Other Wavelengths -- 9.14.Conclusions -- 10.1.Chapter 1: Finding The Heat -- 10.2.Chapter 2: Feeling The Heat -- 10.3.Chapter 3: Local Heat -- 10.4.Chapter 4: The Heat Of The Stars -- 10.5.Chapter 5: Young Heat -- 10.6.Chapter 6: Distant Heat -- 10.7.Chapter 7: Ancient Heat -- 10.8.Chapter 8: First Heat -- 10.9.Chapter 9: Future Heat.
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- ISBN:
- 9781482237276 (hardcover : alk. paper)
148223727X (hardcover : alk. paper)
1482237288
9781482237283 - Note:
- "A CRC title."
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2014
- Endowment Note:
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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