Astronomie spatiale infrarouge, aujourd'hui et demain Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow 3-28 August 1998
This book brings together the lectures given at the Les Houches summer school "Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow". It gives a wide overview of infrared astronomy, a wavelength domain crucial for studies of the solar system, stars at the beginning and end of their lives, interste...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2000, 2000
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
Series: | Les Houches - Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | This book brings together the lectures given at the Les Houches summer school "Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow". It gives a wide overview of infrared astronomy, a wavelength domain crucial for studies of the solar system, stars at the beginning and end of their lives, interstellar matter and galaxies at all distances. Recent developments in observational techniques have been tremendous. The first contributions give an introduction to the basic physical processes and methods of detection and data processing. They are followed by a series of lectures dealing with the wide variety of astronomical objects that can be seen in the infrared |
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Physical Description: | XXXIV, 454 p. 175 illus online resource |
ISBN: | 9783540455738 |