Editors:
- Reviews the technological and scientific success story of the pioneering United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope (UKIRT)
- Presents an outlook to future research
- Edited and written by pioneers and current leaders in infrared astronomy
- Published under the auspices of the Royal
- Astronomical Society
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (ASSSP, volume 37)
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Table of contents (31 papers)
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Front Matter
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The Development of UKIRT
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Front Matter
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UKIRT Science
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Front Matter
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About this book
These are the proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the UKIRT, the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope.
The volume comprises 31 professional level papers. The first part of the book has 10 thorough reviews of the conception, design and build of the telescope, as well as accounts of some its key instruments such as IRCAM (the common-user infrared camera), CGS4 (the fourth Cooled Grating Spectrometer) and the Wide Field Camera. The second part of the book comprises 14 reviews of scientific achievements during its twenty years of visitor mode operations. The final part of the book is a series of 7 reviews of the results from the multiple surveys being done as part of UKIDSS (UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey).
The authors are all experts in their respective fields, for example instrument scientists, operations staff and leading astronomers.
Editors and Affiliations
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Southern Operations Center, Gemini Observatory, La Serena, Chile
Andy Adamson
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Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
John Davies
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UKATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Ian Robson
About the editors
John Davies is Astronomer at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, ROE and a former UKIRT support Scientist.
Ian Robson is Director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre. Formerly, he was Director of the Joint Astronomy Centre.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT
Book Subtitle: The Scientific Achievement of the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope
Editors: Andy Adamson, John Davies, Ian Robson
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7432-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7431-5Published: 12 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0199-8Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7432-2Published: 26 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1570-6591
Series E-ISSN: 1570-6605
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 341
Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Cosmology