Observational Astrophysics (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)

by StephenLyle (Contributor), PierreLéna (Author), Didier Pelat (Author), François Mignard (Author), François Lebrun (Author), Daniel Rouan (Author), Laurent Mugnier (Contributor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2012

  $207.22

  This is the revised 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, and touches upon new windows of astronomy.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $55.51

  Written specifically for physicists 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. This second edition has been entirely restructured and almost doubled in size, in order to improve its clarity and to account for the great progress achieved in the last 15 years. It deals with ground-based and space-based astronomy and their respective fields. It presents the new generation of giant ground-based telescopes, with the new methods of optical interferometry and adaptive optics. But 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 touches upon the 'new astronomies' becoming possible with gravitational waves and neutrinos.