Overview
- The first single volume uniting optical scientists and engineers and astrophysicists to address the most challenging requirements of observational tools of optical (UV to IR) astrophysics of the XXI century, including inverse problems
- Special pedagogical emphasis has been dedicated to disentangle current technological constraints from fundamental physical limitations
- Also addresses the theoretical bases of some possible future diagnosis tools for astrophysical processes which are today beyond our reach
Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 198)
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About this book
Astrophysics is facing challenging aims such as deep cosmology at redshift higher than 10 to constrain cosmology models, or the detection of exoplanets, and possibly terrestrial exoplanets, and several others. It requires unprecedented ambitious R&D programs, which have definitely to rely on a tight cooperation between astrophysics and optics communities.
The book addresses most of the most critical interdisciplinary domains where they interact, or where they will do. A first need is to collect more light, i.e. telescopes still larger than the current 8-10 meter class ones. Decametric, and even hectometric, optical (from UV to IR wavelengths) telescopes are being studied. Whereas up to now the light collecting surface of new telescopes was approximately 4 times that of the previous generation, now this factor is growing to 10 to 100. This quantum leap urges to implement new methods or technologies developed in the optics community, both in academic labs and in the industry. Given the astrophysical goals and technological constraints, new generation adaptive optics with a huge number of actuators and laser guide stars devices have to be developed, from theoretical bases to experimental works.
Two other newcomers in observational astrophysics are interferometric arrays of optical telescopes and gravitational wave detectors. Up-to-date reviews of detectors and of spectrographs are given, as well as forefront R&D in the field of optical coatings and of guided optics. Possible new ways to handle photons are also addressed, based on quantum physics. More and more signal processing algorithms are a part and parcel of any modern instrumentation. Thus finally the book gives two reviews about wavefront processing and about image restoration and deconvolution algorithms for ill conditioned cases.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Optics in Astrophysics
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Optics in Astrophysics, Cargèse, France from 16 to 28 September 2002
Editors: Renaud Foy, Françoise Claude Foy
Series Title: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3437-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3435-0Published: 07 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3436-7Published: 06 December 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3437-4Published: 14 January 2006
Series ISSN: 1568-2609
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 422
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Image Processing and Computer Vision