The Science Case for the European Extremely Large Telescope
Author: Isobel Hook
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 148
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Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large Telescopes (IAU S232)
Author: International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-06-15
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780521856089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings volume for researchers and graduate students of astronomy, covering the most exciting science and key ELT projects.
Science with the VLT in the ELT Era
Author: Alan F.M. Moorwood
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-11-21
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1402091907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Workshop “Science with the VLT in the ELT Era” held in Garching from 8th to 12th October 2007 was organised by ESO, with support from its Scienti c and Technical Committee, to provide a forum for the astronomical community to debate the long term future of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its interferometric mode (VLTI). In particular it was considered useful for future planning to evaluate how its science use may evolve over the next decade due to competition and/or synergy with new facilities such as ALMA, JWST and, hopefully, at least one next generation 30–40 m extremely large telescope whose acronym appears in the title to symbolise this wider context. These discussions were also held in the fresh light of the Science Vision recently developed within ASTRONET as the rst step towards a 20 year plan for implementing astronomical facilities—the rst such attempt within Europe. Speci c ideas and proposals for new, second generation VLT/I instruments were also solicited following a tradition set by several earlier Workshops held since the start of the VLT development. The programme consisted of invited talks and reviews and contributed talks and posters. Almost all those given are included here although, unfortunately not the several lively but constructive discussion sessions.
Astrophysics Update 2
Author: John Mason
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-08-29
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 3540303138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Astrophysics Updates" is intended to serve the information needs of professional astronomers and postgraduate students about areas of astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology that are rich and active research spheres. Observational methods and the latest results of astronomical research are presented as well as their theoretical foundations and interrelations. The contributed commissioned articles are written by leading exponents in a format that will appeal to professional astronomers and astrophysicists who are interested in topics outside their own specific areas of research. This collection of timely reviews may also attract the interest of advanced amateur astronomers seeking scientifically rigorous coverage.
Highlights of Astronomy: Volume 14
Author: Karel van der Hucht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-01-21
Total Pages: 758
ISBN-13: 9780521896832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecording the proceedings of the IAU XXVI General Assembly, this volume of the IAU Highlights of Astronomy covers virtually all aspects of modern astrophysics as discussed by 2400 participants from 73 countries. Notably, the common aspects of astrophysical phenomena known to exist in widely differing interstellar environments is thoroughly examined, providing fertile cross correlation from one specialisation to another. This text highlights the importance of the triennial IAU General Assemblies in bringing together the work of observers and theoreticians in widely different fields, but working towards a common goal: understanding the physics of the Universe. Together with the Proceedings of the IAU Symposia 235-240, this volume examines all of the astrophysics presented at the General Assembly.
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy
Author: Andre Heck
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9401006660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeated in a sun-lit corner of his 17th century Dutch house, his hand touching a celestial globe, Johannes Vermeer's "Astronomer" seems to pon der about the mysteries of the universe. We might make the trip to Paris and ask him, in the Louvre, what precisely is on his mind. Unfortunately, there will be no answer. But we do know what his mind was not on. It was not on the approaching deadlines for the proposals he would have to write for getting funds and telescope-time, not on the meeting of the observing programs committee, not on his refereeing duty for the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, nor on his university's tightening budget for science. In the Kapteyn Institute at Groningen I stand face to face with the im pressive portrait of J.C. Kapteyn, painted in the year 1918. Seated at his desk he is doing his calculations with pen, pencil and tables, perhaps check ing the work of his skilled staff of human computers. Early in his career he had completed his magnum opus, the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung in collaboration with his close friend David Gill at Capetown, South Africa.
High Time Resolution Astrophysics
Author: Don Phelan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-10-23
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1402065183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is quite simply the first volume of its kind dedicated to the area of high time resolution astrophysics. High time resolution astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window on the universe and a vital tool in understanding a range of phenomena from diverse objects and radiative processes. Underlining this science foundation, technological developments in both instrumentation and detectors are described.
Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times
Author: David Leverington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 0521899931
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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics IV
Author: Sociedad Española De Astronomía. Scientific Meeting
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-07-23
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 140205999X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Española de Astronomía, SEA). The event bought together 301 participants who presented 161 contributed talks and 120 posters, the greatest numbers up to now. The fact that most exciting items of the current astronomical research were addressed in the meeting proofs the good health of the SEA, a consolidated organization founded fifteen years ago in Barcelona. Two plenary sessions of the meeting were devoted to the approved entrance of Spain as a full member of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and to the imminent first light of the greatest telescope in the world, the GTC (Gran Telescopio de Canarias), milestones that will certainly lead the Spanish Astronomy in the next future.
