Internet Resources for Professional Astronomy
Proceedings of the IX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
- Editors:
- Mark Kidger, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
- Ismael Pirez-Fournon, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
- Francisco Sánchez, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
- Date Published: September 1999
- availability: Unavailable - out of print October 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521663083
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This book presents a comprehensive guide to the impact of the internet on professional astronomy. Each chapter deals with a range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with authors first discussing the corresponding problems for each range, particularly those that can be treated by access to very large databases. They then describe how data and information can be found on the internet, and explain how to access and process this information. This is complemented by a detailed guide to astronomy on the internet, including several hundred links of interest to internet resources, arranged by topic. The book gives examples of the analysis of data from telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope, with a step-by-step guide to using such data. Written by experts from all over the world, this book will be of interest to all astronomers, both professional and amateur, and provides a key to the high-tech work of modern astrophysics.
Read more- The only guide of its kind to astronomy on the Internet
- Combines theoretical and practical background to finding and using information
- Examples of sessions analysing data are given, providing a step-by-step guide to how to use telescope and satellite data
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'In eight chapters several authors summarise the availability of sky surveys in the X-ray, far-utraviolet, optical, infrared and radio bands, and explain how they may be accessed on the Internet. The book contains much essential information not available in collated form elsewhere … the book is essential to all working in astrophysics during the first few years after 2000.' A. D. Andrews, Irish Astronomical Journal
See more reviews'The authors have performed a valuable service by bringing this comprehensive introduction to on-line archives to a wider audience … I recommend it as the starting point for anyone … There is treasure in these archives and here is an outline map with which to find it.' Clive Davenhall, The Observatory
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- Date Published: September 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521663083
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 179 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.843kg
- contains: 52 b/w illus. 33 tables
- availability: Unavailable - out of print October 2000
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Internet services for professional astronomy
2. Radio astronomy
3. Internet services for radio astronomy
4. Science with infrared surveys
5. Infrared astronomy with large databases - the practical side
6. Astronomical archives in the optical and in the ultraviolet
7. Optical and UV astronomy in the internet age
8. X-ray astronomy
9. High energy astrophysics II - data analysis techniques and archive access
Index.
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