, This is the updated, widely revised, restructured and expanded
third edition of Lena et al.'s successful work Observational
Astrophysics. It presents a synthesis on tools and methods of
observational astrophysics of the early 21st century. Written
specifically for astrophysicists and graduate students, this
textbook focuses on fundamental and sometimes practical limitations
on the ultimate performance that an astronomical system may reach,
rather than presenting particular systems in detail.
In little more than a decade there has been extraordinary progress
in imaging and detection technologies, in the fields of adaptive
optics, optical interferometry, in the sub-millimetre waveband,
observation of neutrinos, discovery of exoplanets, to name but a
few examples.
The work deals with ground-based and space-based astronomy and
their respective fields. And it also presents the ambitious
concepts behind space missions aimed for the next decades. Avoiding
particulars, it covers the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum,
and provides an introduction to the new forms of astronomy becoming
possible with gravitational waves and neutrinos. It also treats
numerical aspects of observational astrophysics: signal processing,
astronomical databases and virtual observatories."
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