| Description |
1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Contents |
1 Introduction; Night Vision; The Invisible Wavelengths; The Cool Universe; The Slow Development of Infrared Astronomy -- 2 William Herschel Opens Up the Invisible Universe -- 3 1800-1950: Slow Progress -- the Moon, Planets, Bright Stars and the Discovery of Interstellar Dust; Piazzi Smyth and the Detection of Infrared Radiation from the Moon; Infrared Radiation from Stars; Interstellar Dust; The Structure and Evolution of Stars -- 4 Dying Stars Shrouded in Dust and Stars Being Born: The Emergence of Infrared Astronomy in the 1960s and 1970sPioneers Working from Mountaintops; The Two Micron Survey; The Minnesota-San Diego Axis; Stars Being Born; Early Infrared Observations of the Galactic Centre; Extragalactic Sources of Infrared Radiation; The Unidentified Infrared Bands; The U.S. Air Force Rocket Surveys; Models for Infrared Sources in Dust Clouds; Models for Interstellar Dust Grains; The Unidentified Infrared Bands Explained; Emergence of Infrared Astronomy Outside the United States -- 5 Birth of Submillimetre Astronomy: Clouds of Dust and Molecules in Our GalaxySubmillimetre Astronomy; Molecular-Line Astronomy; Molecules in External Galaxies -- 6 The Cosmic Microwave Background, Echo of the Big Bang; The Expansion of the Universe; Background to the Penzias and Wilson Discovery; Bell Labs and Princeton; The Dipole Anisotropy; History of the Hot Big Bang; Distortions to the Blackbody Spectrum?; Small-Scale Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Need for Dark Matter -- 7 The Infrared Astronomical Satellite and the Opening Up of Extragalactic Infrared Astronomy: Starbursts and Active Galactic NucleiThe IRAS Story; The IRAS Data Centres; Vega and Dust Debris Disks; The IRAS Comets; IRAS Galaxies; The Infrared 'Cirrus' and the Zodiacal Dust Bands; Planet X?; Ground-Based Follow-up of the IRAS Survey; Cosmology with IRAS; Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies; Theoretical Models for Infrared Sources; IRAS View of the Galaxy -- 8 The Cosmic Background Explorer and the Ripples, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Dark Energy; The Cosmic Background Explorer and the Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave BackgroundCOBE and the Ripples; Distant Supernovae Favour the Cosmological Constant; The Integrated Background Radiation from Galaxies; The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP); The Dark Ages; 9 Giant Ground-Based Near-Infrared and Submillimetre Telescopes; Large Ground-Based Near-Infrared Telescopes: UKIRT, IRTF and CFHT; The Advent of the Giant Ground-Based Telescopes; 2MASS and Other Infrared Surveys; High-Redshift Galaxies; The Star-Formation History of Galaxies |
| Summary |
Michael Rowan-Robinson provides a comprehensive history of infrared astronomy in this accessible and well-illustrated guide |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-245) and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge, viewed on 21 Mar 2013) |
| Subject |
Infrared astronomy.
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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NATURE -- Sky Observation.
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Infrared astronomy
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Infrarotastronomie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012005511 |
| ISBN |
9781139176019 |
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1139176013 |
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9781139616287 |
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1139616285 |
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9781139625586 |
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1139625586 |
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9781299842342 |
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1299842348 |
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9781139612562 |
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1139612565 |
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