Editors:
- No other current title offers a comprehensive discussion of the development, importance, and practice of astronomical photometry
- The importance of standardization has received much attention in recent years, however, especially for space missions and for infrared photometry, as evidenced by a conference on the subject held in Blankenberge, Belgium in May, 2006
- This volume will build on that conference as well as the AAS session to be held at Long Beach, California in Jan., 2006
- The book will be of particular use to newer generations of researchers who need to see to the standards to which they should aspire in order to improve on the precision produced by the best techniques of astronomical photometry
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 373)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book will bring together experts in the field of astronomical photometry to discuss how their subfields provide the precision and accuracy in astronomical energy flux measurements that are needed to permit tests of astrophysical theories. Differential photometers and photometry, improvements in infrared precision, the improvements in precision and accuracy of CCD photometry, the absolute calibration of flux, the development of the Johnson UBVRI photometric system and other passband systems to measure and precisely classify specific types of stars and astrophysical quantities, and the current capabilities of spectrophotometry, and polarimetry to provide precise and accurate data, will all be discussed in this volume. The discussion of `differential’ or `two-star’ photometers will include those developed for planetary as well as stellar photometry and will range from the Princeton polarizing photometer through the pioneering work of Walraven to the differential photometers designed to measure the ashen light of Venus and to counter the effects of aurorae at high latitude sites; the last to be discussed will be the Rapid Alternate Detection System (RADS) developed at the University of Calgary in the 1980s.
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Eugene F. Milone
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University of Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
C. Sterken
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Astronomical Photometry
Book Subtitle: Past, Present, and Future
Editors: Eugene F. Milone, C. Sterken
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8050-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8049-6Published: 08 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2858-9Published: 28 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8050-2Published: 06 April 2011
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 220
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Measurement Science and Instrumentation