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Astronomy at High Angular Resolution

A Compendium of Techniques in the Visible and Near-Infrared

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Editors:
  1. Henri M. J. Boffin

    1. ESO Vitacura, Santiago de Chile, Chile

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  2. Gaitee Hussain

    1. ESO, Garching, Germany

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  3. Jean-Philippe Berger

    1. ESO Vitacura, Santiago de Chile, Chile

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  4. Linda Schmidtobreick

    1. ESO Vitacura, Santiago de Chile, Chile

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  • Covers in a comprehensive way all of the astronomical high-angular resolution techniques that will become more and more important
  • Prepares a next generation of astronomers on how to apply high-resolution techniques
  • Informs readers how to achieve micro-arcsecond angular resolution
  • Updates and puts in a broader context the seminal book by Boffin et al. (2001) - Astrotomography

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 439)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Lucky Imaging in Astronomy

    • Wolfgang Brandner, Felix Hormuth
    Pages 1-16

  3. Adaptive Optics in High-Contrast Imaging

    • Julien Milli, Dimitri Mawet, David Mouillet, Markus Kasper, Julien H. Girard
    Pages 17-41

  4. Aperture Masking Imaging

    • Michael J. Ireland
    Pages 43-57

  5. Optical Long Baseline Interferometry

    • Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin
    Pages 59-73

  6. Image Reconstruction in Optical Interferometry: An Up-to-Date Overview

    • Fabien Baron
    Pages 75-93

  7. Tori, Discs, and Winds: The First Ten Years of AGN Interferometry

    • Sebastian F. Hönig
    Pages 95-112

  8. Disentangling of Stellar Spectra

    • Petr Hadrava
    Pages 113-135

  9. Velocity Fields in Stellar Atmospheres Probed by Tomography

    • Alain Jorissen, Sophie Van Eck, Kateryna Kravchenko
    Pages 137-153

  10. Eclipse Mapping: Astrotomography of Accretion Discs

    • Raymundo Baptista
    Pages 155-177

  11. Stokes Imaging: Mapping the Accretion Region(s) in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables

    • Stephen B. Potter
    Pages 179-194

  12. Doppler Tomography

    • Thomas R. Marsh, Axel D. Schwope
    Pages 195-222

  13. Tomographic Imaging of Stellar Surfaces and Interacting Binary Systems

    • Julien Morin, Colin Alastair Hill, Christopher Allan Watson
    Pages 223-248

  14. AGN Reverberation Mapping

    • Misty C. Bentz
    Pages 249-266

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 267-274
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About this book

This book offers an essential compendium of astronomical high-resolution techniques. Recent years have seen considerable developments in such techniques, which are critical to advances in many areas of astronomy. As reflected in the book, these techniques can be divided into direct methods, interferometry, and reconstruction methods, and can be applied to a huge variety of astrophysical systems, ranging from planets, single stars and binaries to active galactic nuclei, providing angular resolution in the micro- to tens of milliarcsecond scales. Written by experts in their fields, the chapters cover adaptive optics, aperture masking imaging, spectra disentangling, interferometry, lucky imaging, Roche tomography, imaging with interferometry, interferometry of AGN, AGN reverberation mapping, Doppler- and magnetic imaging of stellar surfaces, Doppler tomography, eclipse mapping, Stokes imaging, and stellar tomography.

 

This book is intended to enable a next generation of astronomers to apply high-resolution techniques. It informs readers on how to achieve the best angular resolution in the visible and near-infrared regimes from diffraction-limited to micro-arcsecond scales.

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“Its thirteen chapters, written by specialists in their particular area, provide overviews of techniques within the overarching theme of high spatial resolution in the visible and near-IR. ... this compendium offers up a smorgasbord of enticements into new realms of exploration utilizing exciting instruments and the cleverest of analyses of their data. For some, this work will serve as their embarkation upon deeper treatments towards a potentially career-inspiring journey.” (Harold A. McAlister, The Observatory, Vol. 137 (1260), October, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • ESO Vitacura, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Henri M. J. Boffin, Jean-Philippe Berger, Linda Schmidtobreick

  • ESO, Garching, Germany

    Gaitee Hussain

About the editors

The editors of the book, H.M.J. Boffin, J.P. Berger, G. Hussain, and K. Schmidtobreick, all ESO staff, are experts in high-resolution astronomy. H. Boffin has extensive experience in editing books, including “Astrotomography” in the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Physics (2004) and “The Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars” published in the Springer series Astrophysics and Space Science Library (2015).

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