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High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics (Nato Science Series C:, 501) - Softcover

 
9789401065078: High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics (Nato Science Series C:, 501)

Synopsis

Over the last decade many efforts have been made to develop high angular resolution techniques in astrophysics. Combined with imaging facilities, they have rapidly proved their efficiency and have already led to major astrophysical results.
During the decade to come, astronomers will be offered new, even more sophisticated high angular resolution tools, especially in the IR and optical domains, coupled with much bigger telescopes, either on the ground or in space.
In such a context of rapidly evolving techniques and a growing need for higher angular resolution to test theories or discover new objects, the present book reviews both instrumental and scientific aspects. The main questions addressed are: what kind of science will benefit from high angular resolution techniques? How can they best be used?
Audience: The book is accessible to students and research workers in both instrumental and astrophysical aspects.

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About the Author

Serge Brunier is an awardwinning science journalist and author of the best-selling "The Great Atlas of the Stars,"

Anne-Marie Lagrange is a prominent astrophysicist associated with the Observatoire de Grenoble, France.

Catherine Cesarsky is the Director General of the European Southern Observatory.

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