The material given in this 'Introduction to astronomical photometry' is the subject matter of a lecture at the University of Geneva. It is, therefore, intended for those students, physicists or mathematicians, who have completed their bachelor's degree or diploma, and are intending to work for their Ph.D. in astronomy. We assume then the elementary ideas of astrophysics, magnitude, colour index, spectral classes, luminosity classes, gradient, atmospheric extinction are already known. The student may find it useful to re-read the work of Schatzman [1], Dufay [2] and Aller [254] before embarking upon the study of this 'Introduction to astronomical photometry'. It is not our aim in this book to deal with every aspect of stellar photometry. On the contrary, we shall restriet ourselves to looking at subjects ofwhich knowledge seems to us essential for someone who has to use photometrie quantities in his astronomical research. We are, therefore, keeping the interests of the photometrie measurements user partieularly in mind. We shall only discuss very superficially the technical prob lems and reduction methods for atmospheric extinction. These problems are dealt with very clearly in Astronomical Techniques [3]; the first by A. Lallemand, H. L.

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Geneva Observatory, Switzerland

M. Golay

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Introduction to Astronomical Photometry
Authors: M. Golay
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2169-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1974
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0428-3Published: 30 September 1974
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-2171-5Published: 05 November 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2169-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 366
Additional Information: Originally published in French
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

General Definitions and Energy Distribution for Various Spectral Types

Photometric Measurements, Effects of Bandwidths and Interstellar Absorption

Two-Dimensional Photometric Representations of Stars

Multi-Colour and Wide-Band Photometry

Intermediate and Narrow Passband Photometry

Photometric Parameters and Their Correlation with Basic Parameters Describing the Physical State of Stellar Atmospheres

Photometry Applied to Various Stellar Objects

Back Matter

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