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Science with Astronomical Near-Infrared Sky Surveys - Proceedings of the Les Houches School, Centre de Physique des Houches, Les Houches, France, 20-24 September, 1993 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
N. Epchtein, A. Omont, W.B. Burton, P. Persi
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Outstanding progress in near-infrared detection technology and in
real-time image processing has led astronomers to start undertaking
all-sky surveys in the 1--2 mum range (project DENIS in Europe and
2MASS in the U.S.A.), surveys which will have a considerable impact
in various areas of astronomy. This book gathers the contributions
of more than 80 specialists involved in fields of interest as
different as low mass stars, late stages of stellar evolution, star
formation, stellar populations of the Galaxy and the Magellanic
Clouds, the local structure of the Universe, and observational
cosmology. It describes the impact on these fields of the
exhaustive data bases and catalogs of stars and galaxies that these
surveys will provide. The considerable interest of these documents
for the future of infrared space and ground-based projects and the
complementarity with other currently ongoing or planned surveys in
other spectral ranges are emphasized.
After a year's successful operation, the European DENIS project is
now a scientific reality and its close cousin 2MASS (USA) is about
to come into operation. The observational and data reduction
processes of both DENIS and 2MASS are fully described in this
volume. Already the impact of DENIS is making itself felt in the
astronomical community in areas of research as diverse as
cosmology, the evolution of galaxies, the interstellar medium, the
search for brown dwarfs, and stellar structure and evolution. The
first routine results from DENIS and the preliminary results from
the 2MASS prototype camera are discussed and compared with other
surveys across the wavelength spectrum, both space- and
ground-based, including the Digitized Sky Survey, ISO and ROSAT.
After a year's successful operation, the European DENIS project is
now a scientific reality and its close cousin 2MASS (USA) is about
to come into operation. The observational and data reduction
processes of both DENIS and 2MASS are fully described in this
volume. Already the impact of DENIS is making itself felt in the
astronomical community in areas of research as diverse as
cosmology, the evolution of galaxies, the interstellar medium, the
search for brown dwarfs, and stellar structure and evolution. The
first routine results from DENIS and the preliminary results from
the 2MASS prototype camera are discussed and compared with other
surveys across the wavelength spectrum, both space- and
ground-based, including the Digitized Sky Survey, ISO and ROSAT.
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Science with Astronomical Near-Infrared Sky Surveys - Proceedings of the Les Houches School, Centre de Physique des Houches, Les Houches, France, 20-24 September, 1993 (Hardcover, Reprinted from ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE 217:1-2, 1994)
N. Epchtein, A. Omont, W.B. Burton, P. Persi
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R4,671
Discovery Miles 46 710
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Outstanding progress in near-infrared detection technology and in
real-time image processing has led astronomers to start undertaking
all-sky surveys in the 1--2 mum range (project DENIS in Europe and
2MASS in the U.S.A.), surveys which will have a considerable impact
in various areas of astronomy. This book gathers the contributions
of more than 80 specialists involved in fields of interest as
different as low mass stars, late stages of stellar evolution, star
formation, stellar populations of the Galaxy and the Magellanic
Clouds, the local structure of the Universe, and observational
cosmology. It describes the impact on these fields of the
exhaustive data bases and catalogs of stars and galaxies that these
surveys will provide. The considerable interest of these documents
for the future of infrared space and ground-based projects and the
complementarity with other currently ongoing or planned surveys in
other spectral ranges are emphasized.
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