Overview
- A compendium of the results of the very successful Infrared Space Observatory
- A very readable account of the main progresses in Infrared astronomy prior to the Spitzer probe
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Solar System
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Front Matter
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Stars and Circumstellar Matter
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Front Matter
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Interstellar Medium
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Front Matter
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Our Local Universe . . .
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About this book
Stars are born and die in clouds of gas and dust, opaque to most types of radiation, but transparent in the infrared. Requiring complex detectors, space missions and cooled telescopes, infrared astronomy is the last branch of this discipline to come of age. After a very successful sky survey performed in the eighties by the IRAS satellite, the Infrared Space Observatory, in the nineties, brought spectacular advances in the understanding of the processes giving rise to powerful infrared emission by a great variety of celestial sources.
Outstanding results have been obtained on the bright comet Hale-Bopp, and in particular of its water spectrum, as well as on the formation, chemistry and dynamics of planetary objects in the solar system. Ideas on the early stages of stellar formation and on the stellar initial mass function have been clarified.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: ISO Science Legacy
Book Subtitle: A Compact Review of ISO Major Achievements
Editors: Catherine Cesarsky, Alberto Salama
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3844-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3843-3Published: 17 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6979-5Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3844-0Published: 30 June 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 446
Additional Information: Reprinted from SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS, 119:1-4, 2005
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra