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Author NATO Advanced Study Institute on Optics in Astrophysics (2002 : Cargèse, France)

Title Optics in astrophysics / edited by Renaud Foy and Françoise-Claude Foy
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 422 pages) : illustrations
Series Nato science series II. mathematics, physics and chemistry ; v. 198
NATO science series. Series II, Mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; v. 198.
Contents CONSTRAINTS OF GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS: THE ATMOSPHERE -- INTERFERENCES -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES -- MODERN OPTICAL DESIGN -- STRUCTURAL MECHANICS -- SEGMENTED MIRROR TELESCOPES -- HECTOMETRIC OPTICAL TELESCOPES ESO'S 100-M OWL TELESCOPE CONCEPT -- OPTICAL FABRICATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL TELESCOPES, TERRESTRIAL AND SPACE -- OPTICAL TESTING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL TELESCOPES -- MOEMS, MICRO-OPTICS FOR ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION -- OPTICAL AND INFRARED DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY -- SPECTROSCOPY -- ADAPTIVE OPTICS; PRINCIPLES, PERFORMANCE AND CHALLENGES -- LASER TECHNOLOGIES FOR LASER GUIDED ADAPTIVE OPTICS -- LASER GUIDE STARS: PRINCIPLE, CONE EFFECT AND TILT MEASUREMENT -- INTERFEROMETRY -- GUIDED OPTICS FOR STELLAR INTERFEROMETRY -- AN INTRODUCTION TO GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE ASTRONOMY -- COATINGS PRINCIPLES -- CLASSICAL PROPERTIES OF CONTINUOUSWAVE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS -- AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM OPTICS -- ATOM INTERFEROMETRY -- AMPLITUDE AND PHASE DETECTION OF INCOHERENT SOURCE -- STATISTICAL WAVEFRONT SENSING -- TOIMAGE RECONSTRUCTION AND INVERSE PROBLEMS
Summary Astrophysics is facing challenging aims such as deep cosmology at redshift higher than 10 to constrain cosmology models, or the detection of exoplanets, and possibly terrestrial exoplanets, and several others. It requires unprecedented ambitious R & D programs, which have definitely to rely on a tight cooperation between astrophysics and optics communities. The book addresses most of the most critical interdisciplinary domains where they interact, or where they will do. A first need is to collect more light, i.e. telescopes still larger than the current 8-10 meter class ones. Decametric, and even hectometric, optical (from UV to IR wavelengths) telescopes are being studied. Whereas up to now the light collecting surface of new telescopes was approximately 4 times that of the previous generation, now this factor is growing to 10 to 100. This quantum leap urges to implement new methods or technologies developed in the optics community, both in academic labs and in the industry. Given the astrophysical goals and technological constraints, new generation adaptive optics with a huge number of actuators and laser guide stars devices have to be developed, from theoretical bases to experimental works. Two other newcomers in observational astrophysics are interferometric arrays of optical telescopes and gravitational wave detectors. Up-to-date reviews of detectors and of spectrographs are given, as well as forefront R & D in the field of optical coatings and of guided optics. Possible new ways to handle photons are also addressed, based on quantum physics. More and more signal processing algorithms are a part and parcel of any modern instrumentation. Thus finally the book gives two reviews about wavefront processing and about image restoration and deconvolution algorithms for ill conditioned cases
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Subject Space optics -- Congresses
Astrophysics -- Observations -- Congresses
Space interferometry -- Congresses
Telescopes -- Design and construction -- Congresses
Optics, Adaptive -- Congresses
NATURE -- Sky Observation.
Astrophysics -- Observations.
Space interferometry.
Telescopes -- Design and construction.
Optics, Adaptive.
Space optics.
Physique.
Astrophysics -- Observations
Optics, Adaptive
Space interferometry
Space optics
Telescopes -- Design and construction
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Foy, Renaud.
Foy, Françoise-Claude.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Public Diplomacy Division.
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